Arrest and Trial

S1 E1 - 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.

Sep 15, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E2 - 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.

Sep 22, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E3 - 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.

Sep 29, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E4 - 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.

Oct 6, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E5 - 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.

Oct 13, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E6 - 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.

Oct 20, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E7 - 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.

Oct 27, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E8 - 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.

Nov 3, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E9 - 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.

Nov 10, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E10 - The Quality of Justice

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

Nov 17, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E11 - 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.

Dec 1, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E12 - Journey Into Darkness

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

Dec 8, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E13 - Some Weeks Are All Mondays

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

Dec 15, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E14 - 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.

Dec 22, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E15 - Funny Man With A Monkey

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

Jan 5, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E16 - Signals From An Ancient Flame

Nov 24, 1963 • 1h 30m

S1 E17 - Onward and Upward

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

Jan 19, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E18 - 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.

Jan 26, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E19 - 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.

Feb 2, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E20 - People In Glass Houses

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

Feb 9, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E21 - 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.

Feb 16, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E22 - 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.

Feb 23, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E23 - 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.

Mar 1, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E24 - 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.

Mar 8, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E25 - 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..

Mar 15, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E26 - 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.

Mar 22, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E27 - 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.

Mar 29, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E28 - 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.

Apr 5, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E29 - 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.

Apr 12, 1964 • 1h 30m

S1 E30 - 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.

Apr 19, 1964 • 1h 30m