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Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.
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Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01Call It A Lifetime (1)September 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 f
- S01E02Isn't It A Lovely View (2)September 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
- S01E03Tears From A Silver DipperSeptember 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
- S01E04A Shield Is For Hiding BehindOctober 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
- S01E05My Name is Martin BurnhamOctober 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 defen
- S01E06A Flame in the DarkOctober 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 t
- S01E07Whose Little Girl Are You?October 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
- S01E08The WitnessesNovember 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
- S01E09Inquest Into A Bleeding HeartNovember 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 f
- S01E10The Quality of JusticeNovember 17, 1963—Anderson is searching for a child-killer, unaware that the killer is mentally retarded and very unstable.
- S01E11We May Be Better StrangersDecember 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 charg
- S01E12Journey Into DarknessDecember 8, 1963—Journey Into Darkness is an episode of the TV program Arrest and Trial.
- S01E13Some Weeks Are All MondaysDecember 15, 1963—Anderson realizes that the daughter of a well-known playwright may have murdered her stepfather.
- S01E14Run, Little Man, RunDecember 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
- S01E15Funny Man With A MonkeyJanuary 5, 1964—A night club comic is suspected of killing a doctor to get narcotics to fed his hunger and addiction.
- S01E16
Signals From An Ancient FlameNovember 24, 1963— - S01E17Onward and UpwardJanuary 19, 1964—A sleazy corporate yes-man inherits the unpleasant task of corpse disposal after his boss murders his mistress.
- S01E18An Echo of ConscienceJanuary 26, 1964—Anderson has a hard time accepting that his old friend, a private detective who was thrown off the police force because of his alcoholism, h
- S01E19Somewhat Lower Than the AngelsFebruary 2, 1964—A priest’s faith in the innocence of the woman arrested for killing his sister convinces Egan to take the case.
- S01E20People In Glass HousesFebruary 9, 1964—Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.
- S01E21The Best There Is (1)February 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
- S01E22A Roll of the Dice (2)February 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 Veg
- S01E23The Black FlowerMarch 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
- S01E24A Circle of StrangersMarch 8, 1964—Alex and Helen want to marry despite their feuding Hungarian-born families’ objections, but when shy Alex accidentally kills a man their lov
- S01E25Modus OperandiMarch 15, 1964—Lois Janeway insists that her parolee husband has gone straight, but Anderson has a hard time believing that another criminal has adopted Ja
- S01E26Tigers Are For JunglesMarch 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
- S01E27The Revenge of the WormMarch 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 c
- S01E28He Ran For His LifeApril 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.
- S01E29Those Whose Love Has Made (1)April 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
- S01E30Birds of a Feather (2)April 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 hi
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