9.0/10 9 votes#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
- 9.0/10 11 votes
#2 - 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
- 8.9/10 9 votes
#3 - 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
- 8.8/10 8 votes
#4 - 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
- 8.8/10 8 votes
#5 - 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
- 8.8/10 8 votes
#6 - 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
- 8.8/10 8 votes
#7 - 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
- 8.7/10 9 votes
#8 - 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
- 8.7/10 10 votes
#9 - 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
- 8.7/10 9 votes
#10 - 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
- 8.6/10 16 votes
#11 - 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
- 8.6/10 9 votes
#12 - 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
- 8.4/10 9 votes
#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
- 8.4/10 7 votes
#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
- 8.4/10 7 votes
#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
- 8.3/10 9 votes
#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
- 8.3/10 9 votes
#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
- 8.2/10 8 votes
#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
- 8.2/10 9 votes
#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
- 8.2/10 9 votes
#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
- 8.1/10 9 votes
#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
- 8.1/10 9 votes
#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
- 8.0/10 9 votes
#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
The Best Episodes of Judd for the Defense
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High-priced Houston lawyer Clinton Judd and his assistant Ben Caldwell take difficult cases throughout the U.S.
Genre:Drama
Network:ABC
Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Judd for the Defense" is "A Civil Case of Murder", rated 9/10 from 9 user votes. It was directed by Boris Sagal and written by N/A. "A Civil Case of Murder" aired on 9/29/1967 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Weep the Hunter Home".