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Arrest and Trial
1963 - 2000 7.7 (3 votes) 1 Seasons
Genres
Crime Drama
Networks
ABC

Arrest and Trial

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Dick Wolf

Top Cast

Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy

Self - Host

Seasons

Season 1 (1963)

No overview available.

30 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Call It A Lifetime (1)
1963-09-15

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 2: Isn't It A Lovely View (2)
1963-09-22

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 3: Tears From A Silver Dipper
1963-09-29

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 4: A Shield Is For Hiding Behind
1963-10-06

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 5: My Name is Martin Burnham
1963-10-13

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 6: A Flame in the Dark
1963-10-20

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 7: Whose Little Girl Are You?
1963-10-27

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 8: The Witnesses
1963-11-03

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 9: Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart
1963-11-10

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 10: The Quality of Justice
1963-11-17

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

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 11: We May Be Better Strangers
1963-12-01

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 12: Journey Into Darkness
1963-12-08

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

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 13: Some Weeks Are All Mondays
1963-12-15

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

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 14: Run, Little Man, Run
1963-12-22

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 15: Funny Man With A Monkey
1964-01-05

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

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 16: Signals From An Ancient Flame
1963-11-24

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 17: Onward and Upward
1964-01-19

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

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 18: An Echo of Conscience
1964-01-26

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 19: Somewhat Lower Than the Angels
1964-02-02

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

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 20: People In Glass Houses
1964-02-09

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 21: The Best There Is (1)
1964-02-16

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 22: A Roll of the Dice (2)
1964-02-23

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 23: The Black Flower
1964-03-01

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 24: A Circle of Strangers
1964-03-08

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 25: Modus Operandi
1964-03-15

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..

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 26: Tigers Are For Jungles
1964-03-22

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 27: The Revenge of the Worm
1964-03-29

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 28: He Ran For His Life
1964-04-05

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

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 29: Those Whose Love Has Made (1)
1964-04-12

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.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 30: Birds of a Feather (2)
1964-04-19

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.

Runtime: 90 min

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