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The Worst Episodes of Judd, for the Defense

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Worst episode
S2E8 The Gates of Cerberus
6.111 votes
Best episode
S1E2 The Deep End
7.720 votes
Top season
Season 2
7.1avg
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Judd, for the Defense Season 2 Episode 8 - The Gates of Cerberus
    6.1/10(11 votes)

    S2:E8

    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:Unknown

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  2. Judd, for the Defense Season 2 Episode 22 - The View From the Ivory Tower
    6.5/10(10 votes)

    S2:E22

    Judd defends a college professor who's job is on the line after he invited a black militant lecturer to one of his events.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Judd, for the Defense Season 2 Episode 14 - Borderline Girl
    6.5/10(9 votes)

    S2:E14

    Judd assists another attorney in defending a young woman who readily admits to killing the young man she considered her boyfriend, saying that she did it because he told her to.

    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 7 - Confessional
    6.6/10(11 votes)

    S1:E7

    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

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  5. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 1 - Tempest in a Texas Town
    6.8/10(22 votes)

    S1:E1

    Judd defends a wild, rebellious young man who is accused of killing two teenage girls although no bodies have been found and they may have run away.

    Director:Harvey Hart
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 15 - Firebrand
    6.6/10(8 votes)

    S1:E15

    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:Unknown

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  7. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 21 - What You Can Do With Money
    6.6/10(8 votes)

    S1:E21

    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:Unknown

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  8. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 24 - Square House
    6.7/10(10 votes)

    S1:E24

    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:Unknown

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  9. Judd, for the Defense Season 2 Episode 18 - Between the Dark and the Daylight
    6.7/10(10 votes)

    S2:E18

    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:Unknown

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  10. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 9 - Commitment
    6.7/10(9 votes)

    S1:E9

    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

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  11. Judd, for the Defense Season 2 Episode 2 - Transplant
    6.7/10(9 votes)

    S2:E2

    Judd defends a doctor accused of murder after performing a heart transplant. The recipient is a young woman who the doctor has fallen in love with, and another doctor present claims that the donor was still alive when his heart was removed.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:William Kelley

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  12. Judd, for the Defense Season 2 Episode 24 - Visitation
    6.8/10(12 votes)

    S2:E24

    A divorced man, fearful that his ex-wife plans to leave the country with his son, also learns that he has no legal right to stop her according to the divorce agreement. While trying to find them, he gets into an argument with his brother-in-law and accidentally kills him.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 5 - Shadow of a Killer
    6.8/10(9 votes)

    S1:E5

    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:Sheldon Stark

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  14. Judd, for the Defense Season 2 Episode 3 - The Ends of Justice
    6.8/10(9 votes)

    S2:E3

    Jady Crews is arrested on a minor charge when he tries to stop his black militant son's group from using a gun. Judd easily gets that charge dropped, but the arrest brings to light the fact that Crews escaped from prison years earlier in South Carolina, where he had been convicted of murder after a traffic accident. Though Judd is sure he can get the conviction overturned, Crews' son hopes to use his father's plight to bolster his group's claim that a black man can't receive justice through laws made by whites.

    Director:John Llewellyn Moxey
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 8 - Death From a Flower Girl
    6.8/10(8 votes)

    S1:E8

    Judd's client is a young girl who shot her married lover, but claims she mistook him for a burglar. He finds he must defend her "New Morality" life style as well as the murder charge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Judd, for the Defense Season 2 Episode 9 - My Client The Fool
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    S2:E9

    Ben successfully defends a young man in a paternity suit by bringing out the names of other men who the baby's mother may have been with. But soon afterward he is arrested and charged with bringing the young woman across state lines for immoral purposes.

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 13 - To Love and Stand Mute
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    S1:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 14 - The Living Victim
    7.0/10(10 votes)

    S1:E14

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 26 - You Remember Joe Maddox
    7.0/10(10 votes)

    S1:E26

    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:Unknown

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  20. Judd, for the Defense Season 2 Episode 21 - An Elephant in a Cigar Box
    7.0/10(10 votes)

    S2:E21

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    Director:Charles S. Dubin
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 12 - To Kill a Madman
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    S1:E12

    An old classmate of Ben's is accused of the brutal and senseless murder of three young women in a park. Though it is obvious to both Judd and Ben that the man needs psychiatric help, he still insists he is completely innocent of the murders---and so does a psychic friend of his.

    Director:Larry Peerce
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 17 - Fall of a Skylark (1) - the Trial
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    S1:E17

    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:Unknown

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  23. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 18 - Fall of a Skylark (2) - the Appeal
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    S1:E18

    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:Unknown

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  24. Judd, for the Defense Season 1 Episode 23 - The Devil's Surrogate
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    S1:E23

    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:Unknown

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  25. Judd, for the Defense Season 2 Episode 7 - Weep the Hunter Home
    7.1/10(14 votes)

    S2:E7

    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

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Gates of Cerberus" is the worst rated episode of Judd, for the Defense. It scored 6.1/10 from 11 votes. Directed by Lamont Johnson and written by Unknown, it aired on November 15, 1968. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The View From the Ivory Tower".

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