Arrest and Trial

September. 15,1963      TV-PG
Rating:
7.7
Trailer Synopsis

Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.

Seasons & Episode

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Seasons 1 : 1963

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30 Episode

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Episode 1 - Call It A Lifetime (1)
September. 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.

Episode 2 - Isn't It A Lovely View (2)
September. 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.

Episode 3 - Tears From A Silver Dipper
September. 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.

Episode 4 - A Shield Is For Hiding Behind
October. 06,1963

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.

Episode 5 - My Name is Martin Burnham
October. 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.

Episode 6 - A Flame in the Dark
October. 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.

Episode 7 - Whose Little Girl Are You?
October. 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.

Episode 8 - The Witnesses
November. 03,1963

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.

Episode 9 - Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart
November. 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.

Episode 10 - The Quality of Justice
November. 17,1963

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

Episode 11 - We May Be Better Strangers
December. 01,1963

Episode 12 - Journey Into Darkness
December. 08,1963

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

Episode 13 - Some Weeks Are All Mondays
December. 15,1963

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

Episode 14 - Run, Little Man, Run
December. 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.

Episode 15 - Funny Man With A Monkey
January. 05,1964

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

Episode 16 - Signals From An Ancient Flame
November. 24,1963

Episode 17 - Onward and Upward
January. 19,1964

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

Episode 18 - An Echo of Conscience
January. 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.

Episode 19 - Somewhat Lower Than the Angels
February. 02,1964

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

Episode 20 - People In Glass Houses
February. 09,1964

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

Episode 21 - The Best There Is (1)
February. 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.

Episode 22 - A Roll of the Dice (2)
February. 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.

Episode 23 - The Black Flower
March. 01,1964

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.

Episode 24 - A Circle of Strangers
March. 08,1964

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.

Episode 25 - Modus Operandi
March. 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..

Episode 26 - Tigers Are For Jungles
March. 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.

Episode 27 - The Revenge of the Worm
March. 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.

Episode 28 - He Ran For His Life
April. 05,1964

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

Episode 29 - Those Whose Love Has Made (1)
April. 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.

Episode 30 - Birds of a Feather (2)
April. 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.

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