All Episodes of Arrest and Trial
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Season 1
7.6/1014 votesCall It A Lifetime (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1963
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy, John Brahm
Writer: Unknown
- 6.6/1010 votes
Isn't It A Lovely View (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1963
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.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/1015 votes
Tears From A Silver Dipper
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1963
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.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1012 votes
A Shield Is For Hiding Behind
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1963
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Unknown
- 7.1/1016 votes
My Name is Martin Burnham
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1963
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.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1014 votes
A Flame in the Dark
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1963
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.
Director: Arthur H. Nadel
Writer: Richard Fielder
- 7.0/1011 votes
Whose Little Girl Are You?
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1963
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.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/1011 votes
The Witnesses
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1963
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/1013 votes
Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1963
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.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Unknown
- 7.4/1018 votes
The Quality of Justice
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1963
Anderson is searching for a child-killer, unaware that the killer is mentally retarded and very unstable.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Unknown
- 7.9/1011 votes
We May Be Better Strangers
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1963
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1017 votes
Journey Into Darkness
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1963
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Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Unknown
- 7.1/1010 votes
Some Weeks Are All Mondays
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1963
Anderson realizes that the daughter of a well-known playwright may have murdered her stepfather.
Director: Lewis Allen, Jack Smight
Writer: Unknown
- 6.5/1011 votes
Run, Little Man, Run
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1963
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.
Director: Richard Irving
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1019 votes
Funny Man With A Monkey
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/5/1964
A night club comic is suspected of killing a doctor to get narcotics to fed his hunger and addiction.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Jerome Ross
7.3/109 votesSignals From An Ancient Flame
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 11/24/1963
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Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Unknown
- 7.8/1022 votes
Onward and Upward
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/19/1964
A sleazy corporate yes-man inherits the unpleasant task of corpse disposal after his boss murders his mistress.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/1012 votes
Somewhat Lower Than the Angels
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/2/1964
A priest’s faith in the innocence of the woman arrested for killing his sister convinces Egan to take the case.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Unknown
- 7.7/1011 votes
People In Glass Houses
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/9/1964
Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Unknown
- 7.4/109 votes
The Best There Is (1)
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/16/1964
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: George Kirgo
- 7.7/1016 votes
A Roll of the Dice (2)
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/23/1964
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: George Kirgo
- 7.3/109 votes
The Black Flower
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/1/1964
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.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Don Brinkley
- 5.5/1010 votes
A Circle of Strangers
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/8/1964
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.
Director: Lewis Allen, Lewis Milestone
Writer: Richard Fielder
- 7.6/1012 votes
Modus Operandi
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/15/1964
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..
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Unknown
- 7.7/108 votes
Tigers Are For Jungles
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/22/1964
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.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: George Kirgo
- 7.2/1016 votes
The Revenge of the Worm
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/29/1964
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/109 votes
He Ran For His Life
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/5/1964
Egan investigates the ex-wife of an unstable man arrested for kidnapping his own son and holding the police at bay with a gun.
Director: Jack Smight
Writer: Unknown
- 6.1/109 votes
Those Whose Love Has Made (1)
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/12/1964
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.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/107 votes
Birds of a Feather (2)
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/19/1964
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.
Director: Earl Bellamy
Writer: John McGreevey