Arrest and Trial

1h 30min

Crime

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.

Production Companies

Revue Studios

Universal Television

Episodes

Cast

Call It A Lifetime (1)

1. Call It A Lifetime (1)

1h 30min

15th Sep 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 flees.

Isn't It A Lovely View (2)

2. Isn't It A Lovely View (2)

1h 30min

22nd Sep 1963

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

3. Tears From A Silver Dipper

1h 30min

29th Sep 1963

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

4. A Shield Is For Hiding Behind

1h 30min

6th Oct 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 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

5. My Name is Martin Burnham

1h 30min

13th Oct 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 defense for the crime in the hope of being sent to the gas chamber.

A Flame in the Dark

6. A Flame in the Dark

1h 30min

20th Oct 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 the boy's business-tycoon father tries to do all the talking. What is the father trying to hide.

Whose Little Girl Are You?

7. Whose Little Girl Are You?

1h 30min

27th Oct 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 over his job.

The Witnesses

8. The Witnesses

1h 30min

3rd Nov 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 the crime, she cannot come forward without ruining her reputation.

Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart

9. Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart

1h 30min

10th Nov 1963

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

10. The Quality of Justice

1h 30min

17th Nov 1963

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

We May Be Better Strangers

11. We May Be Better Strangers

1h 30min

1st Dec 1963

Journey Into Darkness

12. Journey Into Darkness

1h 30min

8th Dec 1963

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

Some Weeks Are All Mondays

13. Some Weeks Are All Mondays

1h 30min

15th Dec 1963

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

Run, Little Man, Run

14. Run, Little Man, Run

1h 30min

22nd Dec 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 piece the puzzle together.

Funny Man With A Monkey

15. Funny Man With A Monkey

1h 30min

5th Jan 1964

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

Signals From An Ancient Flame

16. Signals From An Ancient Flame

1h 30min

24th Nov 1963

Onward and Upward

17. Onward and Upward

1h 30min

19th Jan 1964

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

An Echo of Conscience

18. An Echo of Conscience

1h 30min

26th Jan 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, has been driven to murder.

Somewhat Lower Than the Angels

19. Somewhat Lower Than the Angels

1h 30min

2nd Feb 1964

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

20. People In Glass Houses

1h 30min

9th Feb 1964

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

The Best There Is (1)

21. The Best There Is (1)

1h 30min

16th Feb 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 latter’s senility may obstruct the defendant’s chance at a fair trial.

A Roll of the Dice (2)

22. A Roll of the Dice (2)

1h 30min

23rd Feb 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 Vegas.

The Black Flower

23. The Black Flower

1h 30min

1st Mar 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 to flare.

A Circle of Strangers

24. A Circle of Strangers

1h 30min

8th Mar 1964

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

25. Modus Operandi

1h 30min

15th Mar 1964

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

26. Tigers Are For Jungles

1h 30min

22nd Mar 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.

The Revenge of the Worm

27. The Revenge of the Worm

1h 30min

29th Mar 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 compels him to respond with violence instead.

He Ran For His Life

28. He Ran For His Life

1h 30min

5th Apr 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.

Those Whose Love Has Made (1)

29. Those Whose Love Has Made (1)

1h 30min

12th Apr 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’t confess and claim self-defense, because he was leaving his mistress’ apartment at the time.

Birds of a Feather (2)

30. Birds of a Feather (2)

1h 30min

19th Apr 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 him to the sleazy gigolo who put her up to the con.

First air date

15th Sep 1963

Last air date

6th Nov 2000

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks