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The Worst Episodes of Judd for the Defense

Every episode of Judd for the Defense ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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

Worst Episodes Summary

"The Other Face of the Law" is the worst rated episode of "Judd for the Defense". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Robert Butler and written by Joel Kane, it aired on 9/22/1967. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Everyone Loved Harland but His Wife".

  • The Other Face of the Law
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    #1 - The Other Face of the Law

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1967

    Judd defends an ex-cop who claims that he was framed for murder after he tried to expose corruption within the department.

    Director: Robert Butler

    Writer: Joel Kane

  • Everyone Loved Harland but His Wife
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    #2 - Everyone Loved Harland but His Wife

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1968

    Judd defends a woman who admits to killing her invalid husband. She claims she was in fear for her life because of his increasingly violent and erratic behavior, but no one else in her town claims to have seen that side of him.

    Director: Gerald Mayer

    Writer: N/A

  • The Grand Old Man
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    #3 - The Grand Old Man

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1968

    Ben defends the son of a grocer who was murdered by the mob. The young man is accused of kidnapping the retired gangster father of the man who is believed to have ordered the killing.

    Director: Boris Sagal

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sound of the Plastic Axe
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    #4 - The Sound of the Plastic Axe

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1968

    Judd defends a rock entrepreneur who is charged with the murder of his wife, who died at a party he was hosting. Though she died of a heart condition, the man is accused of giving her the amphetamines which contributed to her death.

    Director: Alexander Singer

    Writer: N/A

  • Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live
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    #5 - Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch to Live

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1968

    A man removes his pregnant wife from a group of witches, who have convinced her that they could protect the baby. After she goes back again, he returns and this time accidentally injures the group's high priest, who tried to stop him from taking his wife back. Judd defends the man against a charge of assault, feeling that he genuinely feared for his wife and baby.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Crystal Maze
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    #6 - The Crystal Maze

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1969

    A young woman whom Judd hasn't seen since she was a child names him as custodian for her baby after she kills her husband and then herself. Judd can't permanently take care of the child, but he finds that no one in the young woman's family is well suited for the baby either, and thus must consider adoption, if the family will agree to it.

    Director: John Erman

    Writer: N/A

  • The Poisoned Tree
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    #7 - The Poisoned Tree

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1969

    The kleptomaniac daughter of a wealthy woman is charged with grand theft. She insists she is innocent, but proving it would involve telling a secret which could jeopardize her family situation.

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: N/A

  • The Law and Order Blues (Part 2)
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    #8 - The Law and Order Blues (Part 2)

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1969

    Crossover with "The Felony Squad".

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: N/A

  • The Holy Ground (1) - the Killing
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    #9 - The Holy Ground (1) - the Killing

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1969

    Dan Miles comes to Reverend Barnaby Cutler's spiritual retreat to take his wife home, but she refuses to go. Soon Miles is found dead, and Cutler is charged with his murder. His claim that he does not even remember the events of the day make it look even worse for him.

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: William Kelley

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    #10 - The Holy Ground (2) - the Killers

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1969

    After a recording of a conversation at one of his sessions is played, the prosecution charges that Barnaby Cutler planned the murder of victim Dan Miles with the help of his lover, Miles' wife.

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: William Kelley

  • Runaway
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    #11 - Runaway

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/14/1969

    A friend of Judd's is shot and killed while with his rebellious daughter and her horse. The girl claims it was an accident, but though he agrees to defend her Judd has trouble believing her version of the event, as does her mother.

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: N/A

  • Death From a Flower Girl
    6.8/108 votes
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    #12 - Death From a Flower Girl

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/1967

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Borderline Girl
    7.0/108 votes
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    #13 - Borderline Girl

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1969

    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: N/A

  • The Ends of Justice
    7.3/109 votes
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    #14 - The Ends of Justice

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1968

    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: N/A

  • To Kill a Madman
    7.4/109 votes
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    #15 - To Kill a Madman

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1967

    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: N/A

  • The Worst of Both Worlds
    7.6/107 votes
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    #16 - The Worst of Both Worlds

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/8/1968

    In Juvenile Court, without benefit of counsel, 17-year-old Kenny Carter, Jr. is consigned to the county Juvenile Home for three years based on the charge of stealing and wrecking a car, for which he vaguely denies guilt. Judd steps in to uphold Carter's full rights under due process, but Carter is reluctant to cooperate, as he is concealing a terrible secret.

    Director: George McCowan

    Writer: N/A

  • In a Puff of Smoke
    7.6/1014 votes
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    #17 - In a Puff of Smoke

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1968

    Ray Elliott, an attorney who is well known for his advocacy against the draft, is charged with murder after a young man he was counseling immolates himself in public to avoid conscription, and prosecutors contend Elliott encouraged the young man to do it.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Swim With Sharks
    7.6/108 votes
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    #18 - A Swim With Sharks

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1968

    A longshoreman dealing with loan sharks who have taken over his union is charged with the murder of the union's steward, who he believed was assisting them in charging him exorbitant interest on a loan.

    Director: Jud Taylor

    Writer: N/A

  • Transplant
    7.7/108 votes
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    #19 - Transplant

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1968

    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

  • The Death Farm
    7.7/1012 votes
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    #20 - The Death Farm

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/1/1968

    A young woman begs Judd to defend her friend, an escapee from a prison farm, who claims he will be killed if he is sent back there. The man claims to have killed a convict/trustee who tried to stop his escape. But when Judd asks about this at the farm, the officials deny the man was ever killed. Soon Judd is determined to close the prison farm---if he can get the escapee to tell where the many murdered prisoners are buried.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The View From the Ivory Tower
    7.7/109 votes
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    #21 - The View From the Ivory Tower

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/7/1969

    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: N/A

  • Tempest in a Texas Town
    7.8/1019 votes
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    #22 - Tempest in a Texas Town

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1967

    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: N/A

  • Visitation
    7.9/1010 votes
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    #23 - Visitation

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/21/1969

    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: N/A

  • The Gates of Cerberus
    8.0/109 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • My Client The Fool
    8.0/109 votes
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    #25 - My Client The Fool

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1968

    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: N/A