Ben Gazzara
Nick Anderson
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Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1963
Arrest and Trial
Season 1
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Episodes
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Episode 190 min1963-09-15
Call It A Lifetime (1)
A truck skids into a motorcycle policeman and kills him. The driver who thinks he'll be blamed for the accident, steals a another car and flees.
Episode 290 min1963-09-22
Isn't It A Lovely View (2)
A crippled woman’s reluctance to admit that she witnessed a murder from her apartment window leads Anderson to suspect her husband committed the crime to avoid a blackmail payment.
Episode 390 min1963-09-29
Tears From A Silver Dipper
Caught stealing drugs from a military base, PFC George Valdez becomes the chief suspect in a murder — but race prejudice may be influencing the outcome of his court-martial.
Episode 490 min1963-10-06
A Shield Is For Hiding Behind
Deke Palmer seems like the perfect 19-year-old college student, But Timmy, his 15-year-old brother, knows different. He knows that each time his brother drops him off at the movie theater, he must be able to tell Deke the plot in great detail, so that Deke will have an alibi for whatever he's really off doing while Timmy sits alone at the movies. Can Deke be brought to justice.
Episode 590 min1963-10-13
My Name is Martin Burnham
A suicidal engineer accidentally kills a co-worker while attempting a leap from a high-rise construction site, and he opts to offer no defense for the crime in the hope of being sent to the gas chamber.
Episode 690 min1963-10-20
A Flame in the Dark
Anderson is puzzled by 14-year-old Bobby Randolph, who won't accept the fact that his mother was murdered by a sniper. He also wonders why the boy's business-tycoon father tries to do all the talking. What is the father trying to hide.
Episode 790 min1963-10-27
Whose Little Girl Are You?
A master tool and die craftsman, unbalanced by the loss of his physical dexterity, kills the verbally abusive co-worker who is about to take over his job.
Episode 890 min1963-11-03
The Witnesses
A schoolteacher’s conscience bothers her when the wrong man is arrested for murder — but since she was with a married man when she witnessed the crime, she cannot come forward without ruining her reputation.
Episode 990 min1963-11-10
Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart
After a little girl is run down by a reckess motorcyclist, a discredited doctor performs emergency surgery — only to find himself on trial for practicing without a license after the girl dies.
Episode 1090 min1963-11-17
The Quality of Justice
Anderson is searching for a child-killer, unaware that the killer is mentally retarded and very unstable.
Episode 1190 min1963-12-01
We May Be Better Strangers
A young hoodlum beats two men nearly to death and also engages in some unusual acts of vandalism. Egan agrees to defend the boy on the charges, but he soon begins to wonder about the boy's strange obsession with a prominent Superior court judge.
Episode 1290 min1963-12-08
Journey Into Darkness
Journey Into Darkness is an episode of the TV program Arrest and Trial.
Episode 1390 min1963-12-15
Some Weeks Are All Mondays
Anderson realizes that the daughter of a well-known playwright may have murdered her stepfather.
Episode 1490 min1963-12-22
Run, Little Man, Run
Fred Stukey's wife is found dead at a church bazaar, and Anderson discovers that a known thief named Antsy Jackson was on the scene. Can the piece the puzzle together.
Episode 1590 min1964-01-05
Funny Man With A Monkey
A night club comic is suspected of killing a doctor to get narcotics to fed his hunger and addiction.
Episode 1690 min1963-11-24
Signals From An Ancient Flame
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Episode 1790 min1964-01-19
Onward and Upward
A sleazy corporate yes-man inherits the unpleasant task of corpse disposal after his boss murders his mistress.
Episode 1890 min1964-01-26
An Echo of Conscience
Anderson has a hard time accepting that his old friend, a private detective who was thrown off the police force because of his alcoholism, has been driven to murder.
Episode 1990 min1964-02-02
Somewhat Lower Than the Angels
A priest’s faith in the innocence of the woman arrested for killing his sister convinces Egan to take the case.
Episode 2090 min1964-02-09
People In Glass Houses
Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.
Episode 2190 min1964-02-16
The Best There Is (1)
Egan is too busy to handle the defense of a young Mexican wrongly accused of murder, so he hands the case off to his aging mentor — but the latter’s senility may obstruct the defendant’s chance at a fair trial.
Episode 2290 min1964-02-23
A Roll of the Dice (2)
An ambitious young hustler, falling victim to his gambling addiction, embezzles a large sum from his employer and goes on a spree in Las Vegas.
Episode 2390 min1964-03-01
The Black Flower
Back home on parole, Rick Tobin accuses his wife of being friendly with the man he feels is responsible for his conviction and temper start to flare.
Episode 2490 min1964-03-08
A Circle of Strangers
Alex and Helen want to marry despite their feuding Hungarian-born families’ objections, but when shy Alex accidentally kills a man their love becomes as star-crossed as Romeo and Juliet’s.
Episode 2590 min1964-03-15
Modus Operandi
Lois Janeway insists that her parolee husband has gone straight, but Anderson has a hard time believing that another criminal has adopted Janeway’s highly unusual method of robbery — the use of a vicious trained dog to frighten witnesses during the holdup..
Episode 2690 min1964-03-22
Tigers Are For Jungles
A hit man decides to retire when he falls in love, but the machinations of his ambitious young accomplice force him to pick up his gun again.
Episode 2790 min1964-03-29
The Revenge of the Worm
Anderson advises a truck driver to be practical and pay the “protection” money that a racketeer is extorting from him, but the man’s pride compels him to respond with violence instead.
Episode 2890 min1964-04-05
He Ran For His Life
Egan investigates the ex-wife of an unstable man arrested for kidnapping his own son and holding the police at bay with a gun.
Episode 2990 min1964-04-12
Those Whose Love Has Made (1)
Two of law professor Marcus Cain’s students hire a man to murder their teacher, but Cain turns the tables and kills the killer — only he can’t confess and claim self-defense, because he was leaving his mistress’ apartment at the time.
Episode 3090 min1964-04-19
Birds of a Feather (2)
A society girl helps to swindle a mob-connected Texas businessman on a shady land deal, but when Anderson arrests her she refuses to lead him to the sleazy gigolo who put her up to the con.