Arrest and Trial

E1 Episode 1: Call It A Lifetime (1)

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• 1h 30m
• Sep 15, 1963

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.

E2 Episode 2: Isn't It A Lovely View (2)

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• Sep 22, 1963

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.

E3 Episode 3: Tears From A Silver Dipper

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• Sep 29, 1963

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.

E4 Episode 4: A Shield Is For Hiding Behind

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• Oct 6, 1963

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.

E5 Episode 5: My Name is Martin Burnham

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• Oct 13, 1963

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.

E6 Episode 6: A Flame in the Dark

• 1h 30m
• Oct 20, 1963

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.

E7 Episode 7: Whose Little Girl Are You?

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• Oct 27, 1963

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.

E8 Episode 8: The Witnesses

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• Nov 3, 1963

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.

E9 Episode 9: Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart

• 1h 30m
• Nov 10, 1963

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.

E10 Episode 10: The Quality of Justice

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• Nov 17, 1963

Anderson is searching for a child-killer, unaware that the killer is mentally retarded and very unstable.

E11 Episode 11: We May Be Better Strangers

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• Dec 1, 1963

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.

E12 Episode 12: Journey Into Darkness

• 1h 30m
• Dec 8, 1963

Journey Into Darkness is an episode of the TV program Arrest and Trial.

E13 Episode 13: Some Weeks Are All Mondays

• 1h 30m
• Dec 15, 1963

Anderson realizes that the daughter of a well-known playwright may have murdered her stepfather.

E14 Episode 14: Run, Little Man, Run

• 1h 30m
• Dec 22, 1963

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.

E15 Episode 15: Funny Man With A Monkey

• 1h 30m
• Jan 5, 1964

A night club comic is suspected of killing a doctor to get narcotics to fed his hunger and addiction.

E16 Episode 16: Signals From An Ancient Flame

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• Nov 24, 1963

E17 Episode 17: Onward and Upward

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• Jan 19, 1964

A sleazy corporate yes-man inherits the unpleasant task of corpse disposal after his boss murders his mistress.

E18 Episode 18: An Echo of Conscience

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• Jan 26, 1964

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.

E19 Episode 19: Somewhat Lower Than the Angels

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• Feb 2, 1964

A priest’s faith in the innocence of the woman arrested for killing his sister convinces Egan to take the case.

E20 Episode 20: People In Glass Houses

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• Feb 9, 1964

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

E21 Episode 21: The Best There Is (1)

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• Feb 16, 1964

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.

E22 Episode 22: A Roll of the Dice (2)

• 1h 30m
• Feb 23, 1964

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.

E23 Episode 23: The Black Flower

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• Mar 1, 1964

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.

E24 Episode 24: A Circle of Strangers

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• Mar 8, 1964

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.

E25 Episode 25: Modus Operandi

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• Mar 15, 1964

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..

E26 Episode 26: Tigers Are For Jungles

• 1h 30m
• Mar 22, 1964

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.

E27 Episode 27: The Revenge of the Worm

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• Mar 29, 1964

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.

E28 Episode 28: He Ran For His Life

• 1h 30m
• Apr 5, 1964

Egan investigates the ex-wife of an unstable man arrested for kidnapping his own son and holding the police at bay with a gun.

E29 Episode 29: Those Whose Love Has Made (1)

• 1h 30m
• Apr 12, 1964

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.

E30 Episode 30: Birds of a Feather (2)

• 1h 30m
• Apr 19, 1964

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.