Arrest and Trial

Arrest and Trial

1963
Arrest and Trial
Arrest and Trial

Arrest and Trial

7.7 | TV-PG | en | Drama

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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EP30  Birds of a Feather (2)
Apr. 19,1964
Birds of a Feather (2)

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.

EP29  Those Whose Love Has Made (1)
Apr. 12,1964
Those Whose Love Has Made (1)

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.

EP28  He Ran For His Life
Apr. 05,1964
He Ran For His Life

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

EP27  The Revenge of the Worm
Mar. 29,1964
The Revenge of the Worm

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.

EP26  Tigers Are For Jungles
Mar. 22,1964
Tigers Are For Jungles

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.

EP25  Modus Operandi
Mar. 15,1964
Modus Operandi

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..

EP24  A Circle of Strangers
Mar. 08,1964
A Circle of Strangers

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.

EP23  The Black Flower
Mar. 01,1964
The Black Flower

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.

EP22  A Roll of the Dice (2)
Feb. 23,1964
A Roll of the Dice (2)

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.

EP21  The Best There Is (1)
Feb. 16,1964
The Best There Is (1)

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.

EP20  People In Glass Houses
Feb. 09,1964
People In Glass Houses

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

EP19  Somewhat Lower Than the Angels
Feb. 02,1964
Somewhat Lower Than the Angels

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

EP18  An Echo of Conscience
Jan. 26,1964
An Echo of Conscience

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.

EP17  Onward and Upward
Jan. 19,1964
Onward and Upward

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

EP16  Signals From An Ancient Flame
Nov. 24,1963
Signals From An Ancient Flame

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EP15  Funny Man With A Monkey
Jan. 05,1964
Funny Man With A Monkey

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

EP14  Run, Little Man, Run
Dec. 22,1963
Run, Little Man, Run

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.

EP13  Some Weeks Are All Mondays
Dec. 15,1963
Some Weeks Are All Mondays

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

EP12  Journey Into Darkness
Dec. 08,1963
Journey Into Darkness

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

EP11  We May Be Better Strangers
Dec. 01,1963
We May Be Better Strangers

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EP10  The Quality of Justice
Nov. 17,1963
The Quality of Justice

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

EP9  Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart
Nov. 10,1963
Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart

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.

EP8  The Witnesses
Nov. 03,1963
The Witnesses

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.

EP7  Whose Little Girl Are You?
Oct. 27,1963
Whose Little Girl Are You?

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.

EP6  A Flame in the Dark
Oct. 20,1963
A Flame in the Dark

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.

EP5  My Name is Martin Burnham
Oct. 13,1963
My Name is Martin Burnham

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.

EP4  A Shield Is For Hiding Behind
Oct. 06,1963
A Shield Is For Hiding Behind

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.

EP3  Tears From A Silver Dipper
Sep. 29,1963
Tears From A Silver Dipper

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.

EP2  Isn't It A Lovely View (2)
Sep. 22,1963
Isn't It A Lovely View (2)

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.

EP1  Call It A Lifetime (1)
Sep. 15,1963
Call It A Lifetime (1)

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.

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7.7 | TV-PG | en | Drama , Crime | More Info
Released: 1963-09-15 | Released Producted By: Revue Studios , Universal Television Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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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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Brian Dennehy

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Reviews

runamokprods Sometimes melodramatic, but intelligent and very well acted early 1960s U.S. TV series, that obviously served as the inspiration for "Law & Order". Like "L & O" this is divided into 2 parts; "Arrest" where cop Ben Gazzara tracks down the person seemingly guilty of that week's crime and "Trial" where Chuck Connors defends them. Having the 2nd half be from the defense point-of-view, not the prosecutor's makes the show different than "Law and Order", and arguably more interesting. It makes blatant how much of the legal system exists in shades of gray. It's not surprising that Ben Gazzara is very, very good as cop Nick Anderson, making him more complex and interesting than your basic TV detective of the era. What caught me off- guard was that Connors as successful attorney John Egan, just about matches him. Unlike Gazzara, Connors was never taken that seriously as an actor,. But he shows a lot here as a top notch, somewhat cynical lawyer. Beyond the two leads, the guest casts were often very strong as well. It's partly because these were 90 minutes episodes on TV, so each show runs about 75 minutes of screen time, as opposed to the standard TV drama that runs an hour, which means about 45-60 minutes of actual story. With the extra time, the writers fleshed out the characters, both regulars and guests, much more fully than on most non-serialized dramas. So even if there are plot or logic holes (like charging a man with 1st degree murder, instead of a much more logical 2nd degree or manslaughter, so the trial can be about the issue of "intent" ) it feels more like you're watching a solid, well acted B-film each episode, instead of an early TV series. And the series has a nice mix of dark edginess and humanism. Yes, the score can be painfully over-the-top, and some of the resolutions are too neat, but I'd still say this holds up favorably to a lot of the modern U.S. character cop and/or lawyer shows of today.
aimless-46 The 30 episodes (all in B&W) of the 90-minute crime drama "Arrest and Trial" originally ran on ABC during its 1963-1964 broadcast season. The new three-disc DVD set includes nine of the episodes: #3, #4, #7, #11 (guest starring Martin Sheen and Michael Parks), # 15 (guest starring Mickey Rooney), #21, #22 (guest starring Nick Adams), #23, #30; seemingly taken at random from the series. The series was an innovative concept as it was essentially broken down by the words in its title. During the first 45 minutes of each episode LA detective Nick Anderson (Ben Gazzara) would solve the crime, arrest the perpetrator(s), and hand them over for trial. The second half concerned defense attorney John Egan's (Chuck Connors) attempts to get them acquitted. That Egan was for the defense and not the prosecution was what made the series unique. Guilt or innocence thus became a relative term. With better writing it could been a great series (think "Hill Street Blues" where the public defender is involved in a romance with the Precinct Captain). Unfortunately rather than actually working in opposition to each other most of the episodes featured little if any interplay between Anderson and Egan. So what you got was more like a 45-minute cop show followed by a 45-minute lawyer show; with the only point in common being the same guest star(s); whose character might just as well have had different names for all it would have mattered. The series tried to hold the cop show fans over for the second half by ingeniously breaking the show at the quarter hour when it was too late to change channels and watch something else. It must not have worked very well because the ratings were too low to support a second season. Gazzara was excellent but Connors was horribly miscast. Most likely someone who is seeing Connors' various shows for the first time is mystified than he got so much television work in 1960's. All I can say is that a lot of people were just as mystified then. Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
ldlazarus This short-lived series was excellent TV for its time.Half the show was about the police and the other half was about the courts. In the context of some of the TV we see today, doesn't this have a familiar air about it?"Law and Order"and it's various spin-offs are presently among the most popular shows on TV. This tends to suggest that "Arrest and Trial" was perhaps 40 years ahead of its time.
gmr-4 This was one of the "big" shows that came with the mid-'60s. ARREST AND TRIAL attempted to combine the standard "cop" show with a "lawyer" offering that blossomed in the early 1960s -- not to include of course PERRY MASON, by then an old warhorse.Half the story was the detection/ manhunt/ apprehension, whilst the other half concerned the adjudication. Even though I liked lawyer shows as a teen-ager and afterward (foreshadowing awful things to come in middle age), for some reason ARREST AND TRIAL did not click. I probably watched it for only its first three months -- sure beat homework -- but not again. It would seem audienceland received it the same way, which the two leads, a strong male figure (Connors) and a good actor (Gazzara) could not save.