Arrest and Trial - Season 1

Arrest and Trial - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes30
DatesSep 15, 1963 - Apr 19, 1964

Episodes

Call It a Lifetime
Season 1Episode 190 min

Call It a Lifetime

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
Isn't It a Lovely View?
Season 1Episode 290 min

Isn't It a Lovely View?

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
Tears from a Silver Dipper
Season 1Episode 390 min

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
A Shield is for Hiding Behind
Season 1Episode 490 min

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
My Name is Martin Burnham
Season 1Episode 590 min

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
A Flame in the Dark
Season 1Episode 690 min

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
Whose Little Girl Are You?
Season 1Episode 790 min

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
The Witnesses
Season 1Episode 890 min

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
Inquest Into a Bleeding Heart
Season 1Episode 990 min

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
The Quality of Justice
Season 1Episode 1090 min

The Quality of Justice

Anderson is searching for a child-killer, unaware that the killer is mentally retarded and very unstable.
Nov 17, 1963
We May Be Better Strangers
Season 1Episode 1190 min

We May Be Better Strangers

Dec 1, 1963
Journey Into Darkness
Season 1Episode 1290 min

Journey Into Darkness

Journey Into Darkness is an episode of the TV program Arrest and Trial.
Dec 8, 1963
Some Weeks Are All Mondays
Season 1Episode 1390 min

Some Weeks Are All Mondays

Anderson realizes that the daughter of a well-known playwright may have murdered her stepfather.
Dec 15, 1963
Run, Little Man, Run
Season 1Episode 1490 min

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
Funny Man with a Monkey
Season 1Episode 1590 min

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
Signals of an Ancient Flame
Season 1Episode 1690 min

Signals of an Ancient Flame

Jan 12, 1964
Onward and Upward
Season 1Episode 1790 min

Onward and Upward

A sleazy corporate yes-man inherits the unpleasant task of corpse disposal after his boss murders his mistress.
Jan 19, 1964
An Echo of Conscience
Season 1Episode 1890 min

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
Somewhat Lower Than the Angels
Season 1Episode 1990 min

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
People in Glass Houses
Season 1Episode 2090 min

People in Glass Houses

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.
Feb 9, 1964
The Best There Is
Season 1Episode 2190 min

The Best There Is

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
A Roll of the Dice
Season 1Episode 2290 min

A Roll of the Dice

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
The Black Flower
Season 1Episode 2390 min

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
A Circle of Strangers
Season 1Episode 2490 min

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
Modus Operandi
Season 1Episode 2590 min

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
Tigers Are for Jungles
Season 1Episode 2690 min

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
The Revenge of the Worm
Season 1Episode 2790 min

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
He Ran for His Life
Season 1Episode 2890 min

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
Those Which Love Has Made
Season 1Episode 2990 min

Those Which Love Has Made

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
Birds of a Feather
Season 1Episode 3090 min

Birds of a Feather

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

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