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The Best Episodes of Arrest and Trial

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The Best Episodes of Arrest and Trial

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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  1. Background image for We May Be Better Strangers
    7.9/10(11 votes)

    #1 - We May Be Better Strangers

    S1:E11

    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.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Onward and Upward
    7.8/10(22 votes)

    #2 - Onward and Upward

    S1:E17

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for People In Glass Houses
    7.7/10(11 votes)

    #3 - People In Glass Houses

    S1:E20

    Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

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    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for A Roll of the Dice (2)
    7.7/10(16 votes)

    #4 - A Roll of the Dice (2)

    S1:E22

    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.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
  5. Background image for Tigers Are For Jungles
    7.7/10(8 votes)

    #5 - Tigers Are For Jungles

    S1:E26

    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.

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  6. Background image for Call It A Lifetime (1)
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #6 - Call It A Lifetime (1)

    S1:E1

    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.

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  8. Background image for Modus Operandi
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #7 - Modus Operandi

    S1:E25

    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..

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    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Quality of Justice
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    #8 - The Quality of Justice

    S1:E10

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for An Echo of Conscience
    7.4/10(8 votes)

    #9 - An Echo of Conscience

    S1:E18

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Best There Is (1)
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #10 - The Best There Is (1)

    S1:E21

    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.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
  12. Background image for Signals From An Ancient Flame
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #11 - Signals From An Ancient Flame

    S1:E16

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    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Black Flower
    7.3/10(9 votes)

    #12 - The Black Flower

    S1:E23

    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.

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    Director:Jack Smight
  14. Background image for Tears From A Silver Dipper
    7.2/10(15 votes)

    #13 - Tears From A Silver Dipper

    S1:E3

    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.

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    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Revenge of the Worm
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    #14 - The Revenge of the Worm

    S1:E27

    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.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for My Name is Martin Burnham
    7.1/10(16 votes)

    #15 - My Name is Martin Burnham

    S1:E5

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Some Weeks Are All Mondays
    7.1/10(10 votes)

    #16 - Some Weeks Are All Mondays

    S1:E13

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

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  18. Background image for Whose Little Girl Are You?
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #17 - Whose Little Girl Are You?

    S1:E7

    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.

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    Director:Jack Smight
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Witnesses
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #18 - The Witnesses

    S1:E8

    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.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Somewhat Lower Than the Angels
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    #19 - Somewhat Lower Than the Angels

    S1:E19

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for A Shield Is For Hiding Behind
    6.8/10(12 votes)

    #20 - A Shield Is For Hiding Behind

    S1:E4

    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.

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Journey Into Darkness
    6.8/10(17 votes)

    #21 - Journey Into Darkness

    S1:E12

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Funny Man With A Monkey
    6.8/10(19 votes)

    #22 - Funny Man With A Monkey

    S1:E15

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

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    Director:Earl Bellamy
  24. Background image for Birds of a Feather (2)
    6.8/10(7 votes)

    #23 - Birds of a Feather (2)

    S1:E30

    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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    6.7/10(14 votes)

    #24 - A Flame in the Dark

    S1:E6

    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.

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  26. Background image for Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart
    6.7/10(13 votes)

    #25 - Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart

    S1:E9

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"We May Be Better Strangers" is the best rated episode of "Arrest and Trial". It scored 7.9/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Earl Bellamy and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/1/1963. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Onward and Upward".