Arrest and Trial

1963 - 2000

Call It A Lifetime (1)

15th September 1963

Episode 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.

Isn't It A Lovely View (2)

22nd September 1963

Episode 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.

Tears From A Silver Dipper

29th September 1963

Episode 3

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.

A Shield Is For Hiding Behind

6th October 1963

Episode 4

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.

My Name is Martin Burnham

13th October 1963

Episode 5

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.

A Flame in the Dark

20th October 1963

Episode 6

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.

Whose Little Girl Are You?

27th October 1963

Episode 7

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.

The Witnesses

3rd November 1963

Episode 8

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.

Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart

10th November 1963

Episode 9

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.

The Quality of Justice

17th November 1963

Episode 10

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

We May Be Better Strangers

1st December 1963

Episode 11

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.

Journey Into Darkness

8th December 1963

Episode 12

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Some Weeks Are All Mondays

15th December 1963

Episode 13

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

Run, Little Man, Run

22nd December 1963

Episode 14

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.

Funny Man With A Monkey

5th January 1964

Episode 15

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

Signals From An Ancient Flame

24th November 1963

Episode 16

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Onward and Upward

19th January 1964

Episode 17

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

An Echo of Conscience

26th January 1964

Episode 18

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.

Somewhat Lower Than the Angels

2nd February 1964

Episode 19

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

People In Glass Houses

9th February 1964

Episode 20

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

The Best There Is (1)

16th February 1964

Episode 21

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.

A Roll of the Dice (2)

23rd February 1964

Episode 22

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.

The Black Flower

Episode 23

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.

A Circle of Strangers

Episode 24

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.

Modus Operandi

15th March 1964

Episode 25

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..

Tigers Are For Jungles

22nd March 1964

Episode 26

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.

The Revenge of the Worm

29th March 1964

Episode 27

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.

He Ran For His Life

Episode 28

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

Those Whose Love Has Made (1)

12th April 1964

Episode 29

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.

Birds of a Feather (2)

19th April 1964

Episode 30

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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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.

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