Arrest and Trial
Arrest and Trial

Arrest and Trial (1963)

7.7 (3 votes)
1 Season
September 15, 1963
English
Crime Drama

Synopsis

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.

Network

ABC

Episodes

Call It A Lifetime (1)
E1

Call It A Lifetime (1)

Sep 15, 1963
90 min

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 flees.

Isn't It A Lovely View (2)
E2

Isn't It A Lovely View (2)

Sep 22, 1963
90 min

A crippled woman’s reluctance to admit that she witnessed a murder from her apartment window leads Anderson to suspect her husband committed the crime to avoid a blackmail payment.

Tears From A Silver Dipper
E3

Tears From A Silver Dipper

Sep 29, 1963
90 min

Caught stealing drugs from a military base, PFC George Valdez becomes the chief suspect in a murder — but race prejudice may be influencing the outcome of his court-martial.

A Shield Is For Hiding Behind
E4

A Shield Is For Hiding Behind

Oct 6, 1963
90 min

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 his brother drops him off at the movie theater, he must be able to tell Deke the plot in great detail, so that Deke will have an alibi for whatever he's really off doing while Timmy sits alone at the movies. Can Deke be brought to justice.

My Name is Martin Burnham
E5

My Name is Martin Burnham

Oct 13, 1963
90 min

A suicidal engineer accidentally kills a co-worker while attempting a leap from a high-rise construction site, and he opts to offer no defense for the crime in the hope of being sent to the gas chamber.

A Flame in the Dark
E6

A Flame in the Dark

Oct 20, 1963
90 min

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 the boy's business-tycoon father tries to do all the talking. What is the father trying to hide.

Whose Little Girl Are You?
E7

Whose Little Girl Are You?

Oct 27, 1963
90 min

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 over his job.

The Witnesses
E8

The Witnesses

Nov 3, 1963
90 min

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 the crime, she cannot come forward without ruining her reputation.

Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart
E9

Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart

Nov 10, 1963
90 min

After a little girl is run down by a reckess motorcyclist, a discredited doctor performs emergency surgery — only to find himself on trial for practicing without a license after the girl dies.

The Quality of Justice
E10

The Quality of Justice

Nov 17, 1963
90 min

Anderson is searching for a child-killer, unaware that the killer is mentally retarded and very unstable.

We May Be Better Strangers
E11

We May Be Better Strangers

Dec 1, 1963
90 min

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 charges, but he soon begins to wonder about the boy's strange obsession with a prominent Superior court judge.

Journey Into Darkness
E12

Journey Into Darkness

Dec 8, 1963
90 min

Journey Into Darkness is an episode of the TV program Arrest and Trial.

Some Weeks Are All Mondays
E13

Some Weeks Are All Mondays

Dec 15, 1963
90 min

Anderson realizes that the daughter of a well-known playwright may have murdered her stepfather.

Run, Little Man, Run
E14

Run, Little Man, Run

Dec 22, 1963
90 min

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 piece the puzzle together.

Funny Man With A Monkey
E15

Funny Man With A Monkey

Jan 5, 1964
90 min

A night club comic is suspected of killing a doctor to get narcotics to fed his hunger and addiction.

Signals From An Ancient Flame
E16

Signals From An Ancient Flame

Nov 24, 1963
90 min

No description available.

Onward and Upward
E17

Onward and Upward

Jan 19, 1964
90 min

A sleazy corporate yes-man inherits the unpleasant task of corpse disposal after his boss murders his mistress.

An Echo of Conscience
E18

An Echo of Conscience

Jan 26, 1964
90 min

Anderson has a hard time accepting that his old friend, a private detective who was thrown off the police force because of his alcoholism, has been driven to murder.

Somewhat Lower Than the Angels
E19

Somewhat Lower Than the Angels

Feb 2, 1964
90 min

A priest’s faith in the innocence of the woman arrested for killing his sister convinces Egan to take the case.

People In Glass Houses
E20

People In Glass Houses

Feb 9, 1964
90 min

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

The Best There Is (1)
E21

The Best There Is (1)

Feb 16, 1964
90 min

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 latter’s senility may obstruct the defendant’s chance at a fair trial.

A Roll of the Dice (2)
E22

A Roll of the Dice (2)

Feb 23, 1964
90 min

An ambitious young hustler, falling victim to his gambling addiction, embezzles a large sum from his employer and goes on a spree in Las Vegas.

The Black Flower
E23

The Black Flower

Mar 1, 1964
90 min

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 to flare.

A Circle of Strangers
E24

A Circle of Strangers

Mar 8, 1964
90 min

Alex and Helen want to marry despite their feuding Hungarian-born families’ objections, but when shy Alex accidentally kills a man their love becomes as star-crossed as Romeo and Juliet’s.

Modus Operandi
E25

Modus Operandi

Mar 15, 1964
90 min

Lois Janeway insists that her parolee husband has gone straight, but Anderson has a hard time believing that another criminal has adopted Janeway’s highly unusual method of robbery — the use of a vicious trained dog to frighten witnesses during the holdup..

Tigers Are For Jungles
E26

Tigers Are For Jungles

Mar 22, 1964
90 min

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.

The Revenge of the Worm
E27

The Revenge of the Worm

Mar 29, 1964
90 min

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 compels him to respond with violence instead.

He Ran For His Life
E28

He Ran For His Life

Apr 5, 1964
90 min

Egan investigates the ex-wife of an unstable man arrested for kidnapping his own son and holding the police at bay with a gun.

Those Whose Love Has Made (1)
E29

Those Whose Love Has Made (1)

Apr 12, 1964
90 min

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’t confess and claim self-defense, because he was leaving his mistress’ apartment at the time.

Birds of a Feather (2)
E30

Birds of a Feather (2)

Apr 19, 1964
90 min

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 him to the sleazy gigolo who put her up to the con.

Cast

Details

Original Title

Arrest and Trial

Status

Ended

Seasons

1

Episodes

31

Production

Revue Studios, Universal Television