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The Best Episodes of Judd for the Defense

Every episode of Judd for the Defense ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Judd for the Defense!

High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.
Genre:Drama
Network:ABC

Best Episodes Summary

"A Civil Case of Murder" is the best rated episode of "Judd for the Defense". It scored 9/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Boris Sagal and written by N/A, it aired on 9/29/1967. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Conspiracy".

  • A Civil Case of Murder
    9.0/109 votes
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    #1 - A Civil Case of Murder

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1967

    A football player asks Judd to represent him in fighting his late wife's parents for custody of his son. But soon the case takes on a more serious turn, as the grandparents accuse him of killing their daughter.

    Director: Boris Sagal

    Writer: N/A

  • Conspiracy
    8.9/109 votes
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    #2 - Conspiracy

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1967

    Judd represents architect Paul Christopher in his suit against a former police chief turned special investigator, who is ruthlessly harassing Christopher in his attempt to prove him guilty of conspiracy in the assassination of a mayor.

    Director: John Erman

    Writer: Meyer Dolinsky

  • Fall of a Skylark (1) - the Trial
    8.8/108 votes
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    #3 - Fall of a Skylark (1) - the Trial

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1968

    Judd defends the playboy son of a millionaire hotel owner who has been charged with the murder of the hotel's bookmaker, whom he was in debt to.

    Director: Boris Sagal

    Writer: N/A

  • Fall of a Skylark (2) - the Appeal
    8.8/108 votes
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    #4 - Fall of a Skylark (2) - the Appeal

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1968

    After his client Bruzzy Burke is convicted, Judd continues to work to try to appeal the conviction, even though he is fired by Bruzzy's millionaire father. His first step is to discredit the witness whose surprise testimony led to the conviction, and to use new witnesses---but one of them winds up dead.

    Director: Boris Sagal

    Writer: N/A

  • The Devil's Surrogate
    8.8/108 votes
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    #5 - The Devil's Surrogate

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1968

    A headstrong, controversial priest answers a desperate call from one of his students, a young woman who has been obviously smitten with him. She tells him she is going to kill herself unless he comes to her apartment. The priest comes, only to find himself in a situation in which the girl's boyfriend is accidentally shot and killed. Judd defends the priest, but the case is complicated by the emotionally unstable girl's refusal to cooperate and tell the truth.

    Director: Larry Peerce

    Writer: N/A

  • The Name of This Game Is Acquittal
    8.8/108 votes
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    #6 - The Name of This Game Is Acquittal

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1968

    A lady lawyer, accused of intentionally running down a woman in an alley, uses different ways to pressure Judd into taking her apparently shaky case.

    Director: Lamont Johnson

    Writer: N/A

  • The Money Farm
    8.7/109 votes
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    #7 - The Money Farm

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1967

    An oil company executive is charged with the murder of a man who had been blackmailing him. The defendant says the victim stumbled during a fight and fell off a platform accidentally, but two witnesses insist that he was pushed.

    Director: Ralph Senensky

    Writer: N/A

  • No Law Against Murder
    8.7/1010 votes
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    #8 - No Law Against Murder

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1968

    As a member of a national committee of attorneys assigned to civil rights cases, Judd must defend a client he'd prefer not to: a Southern sheriff charged with violating the civil rights of a harassed Northern writer who was found dead shortly after the sheriff was seen taking him away in his car.

    Director: Boris Sagal

    Writer: N/A

  • Punishments Cruel and Unusual
    8.7/109 votes
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    #9 - Punishments Cruel and Unusual

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1968

    Judd defends an alcoholic woman who has been charged with hit-and-run even though she has not had a drink in years. It is soon obvious the evidence against her is flimsy, but the judge in the case denies every motion Judd tries to prove this. Judd soon decides to show that the judge is biased due to his own unsuccessful battle against alcohol.

    Director: Walter Doniger

    Writer: Charles McDaniel

  • The Deep End
    8.6/1016 votes
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    #10 - The Deep End

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1967

    Judd defends a skipper (Leslie Nielsen) charged with the murder of four people aboard his boat. The only witness is a little girl who was also wounded during the slaughter.

    Director: Seymour Robbie

    Writer: N/A

  • Kingdom of the Blind
    8.6/109 votes
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    #11 - Kingdom of the Blind

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1968

    A onetime film star, hoping for a comeback, asks Judd to represent a scriptwriter to help him get out of a restrictive contract with a Hollywood producer. But the contract is more ironclad than was first realized, and soon that becomes a moot point, as the producer is murdered and the writer is charged with the crime.

    Director: Christian Nyby

    Writer: N/A

  • Weep the Hunter Home
    8.6/1012 votes
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    #12 - Weep the Hunter Home

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/8/1968

    An old friend of Judd objects to his son's friendship with a young man whom he thinks is a homosexual. Later, when the father is shot in an altercation, the son's friend is accused of attempted murder.

    Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

    Writer: Robert Lewin

  • Epitaph on a Computer Card
    8.6/1010 votes
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    #13 - Epitaph on a Computer Card

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1969

    A man finds his job and reputation being destroyed by a minor mistake on a computer card, and in his attempts to do something about it he may be digging himself in even deeper.

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: N/A

  • Confessional
    8.4/109 votes
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    #14 - Confessional

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1967

    The son of an oil tycoon confesses to the murder of a young woman a year and a half earlier. But Judd doesn't believe his confession, and decides to defend him. But why is the young man making the false confession?

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: William Froug

  • Firebrand
    8.4/107 votes
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    #15 - Firebrand

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/15/1967

    Judd visits his client, labor leader Gabriel Aguila, in jail for staging an illegal strike. But in a failed escape attempt a police officer is killed and Judd is taken hostage as leverage.

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: N/A

  • What You Can Do With Money
    8.4/107 votes
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    #16 - What You Can Do With Money

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1968

    Judd is called to the home of an assistant to a high-powered millionaire industrialist, where he is shown the body of a man in a boat. He finds that he has a hard time getting to the truth about how the man died, as the industrialist is telling everyone what to say and not say. Eventually the assistant confesses to killing the man, claiming the victim attacked his wife. But Judd feels people are still not telling him the full truth.

    Director: Boris Sagal

    Writer: N/A

  • Shadow of a Killer
    8.3/108 votes
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    #17 - Shadow of a Killer

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1967

    Judd takes the case of a pregnant young woman who was found outside the scene of a burglary and charged with it.

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: N/A

  • Citizen Ritter
    8.3/109 votes
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    #18 - Citizen Ritter

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/1967

    Ben's client is charged with killing the abortionist who illegally operated on his daughter and almost killed her. Judd believes the man has a violent streak. Ben uncovers many dark secrets when the case goes to trial.

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: N/A

  • You Remember Joe Maddox
    8.3/109 votes
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    #19 - You Remember Joe Maddox

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/15/1968

    Joe Maddox is desperate to find a decent job after being eased out of the editor's position he held for years. But he makes the mistake of confronting the former employer whom he blames for the loss of his job, resulting in the man's death and Maddox being charged with his murder.

    Director: George McCowan

    Writer: N/A

  • Commitment
    8.2/108 votes
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    #20 - Commitment

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/1967

    An escaped convict confronts Judd in a parking lot and demands that he take his case to prove him innocent of the murder he was convicted of six years earlier. Judd motions for a new trial, on the grounds that the man's previous attorney did not provide an adequate defense.

    Director: Robert Butler

    Writer: Paul Monash

  • Square House
    8.2/109 votes
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    #21 - Square House

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/1/1968

    A parolee may be sent back to prison for associating with a rehabilitation center for former convicts, as this violates the terms of his parole. Judd defends him, but he soon has worse problems, as he is charged with killing an old associate during a robbery attempt.

    Director: Alex March

    Writer: N/A

  • Between the Dark and the Daylight
    8.2/109 votes
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    #22 - Between the Dark and the Daylight

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1969

    A student who has been acting as an undercover agent for the police narcotics squad is accused by several students of raping a girl. Judd defends him but believes more is motivating him than just a desire to keep his fellow students off of drugs.

    Director: John Erman

    Writer: N/A

  • To Love and Stand Mute
    8.1/109 votes
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    #23 - To Love and Stand Mute

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/1/1967

    Judd and Ben take the case of a deaf-mute couple who want to adopt the foster child they've been taking care of. A complication develops when the child's natural mother shows up and decides to rescind her original decision to give up her baby.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Living Victim
    8.1/109 votes
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    #24 - The Living Victim

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/8/1967

    Judd is representing mobster Walter Whittaker, who is targeted by prosecutor Joseph Flexner. A bomb killed Flexner's wife and despite a lack of evidence he indicts Whittaker for the murder. Judd must battle the stacked odds.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gates of Cerberus
    8.0/109 votes
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    #25 - The Gates of Cerberus

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1968

    Judd defends a man who filmed a movie inside a mental institution, a project he began when he was a patient there himself. The institution does not want the film shown to the public, but the filmmaker and his backers---led by his wife and brother-in-law---believe conditions inside such places must be exposed. However, the institution argues that the film violates the privacy of its main subject, who has just been released.

    Director: Lamont Johnson

    Writer: N/A