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Arrest and Trial: Season 1

30 episodes Premiered Sep 15, 1963 Updated Jul 22, 2026
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Episodes

S1·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.

S1·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.

S1·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.

S1·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

S1·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 se

S1·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

S1·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.

S1·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 with

S1·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 th

S1·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.

S1·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 t

S1·E12

Journey Into Darkness

Dec 8, 1963 · 90 min

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

S1·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.

S1·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.

S1·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.

S1·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.

S1·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.

S1·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.

S1·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 defen

S1·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.

S1·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.

S1·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 J

S1·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

S1·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.

S1·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 inst

S1·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.

S1·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, becau

S1·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