About this season
Justice is an NBC half-hour drama television series about attorneys of the Legal Aid Society of New York, which aired from April 8, 1954 to March 25, 1956. In the 1954-1955 season, Justice starred Dane Clark as Richard Adams and Gary Merrill as Jason Tyler. In the 1955-1956 season, William Prince replaced Clark in the role of Richard Adams. Westbrook Van Voorhis was the series narrator.
Episodes (25)
1. The Baker's Sons
Aired 8 April 1954 • 30 min
A father persuades his younger son to go to jail for the older worthless son. From files of the Legal Aid Society.
2. Keith's Case
Aired 15 April 1954 • 30 min
A war veteran is reported dead and then suddenly reappears to find his wife remarried.
3. Run from Honor
Aired 22 April 1954 • 30 min
The story of a school bus driver who is to be honored by the community with a safe driving award. The driver Ed Simmons, however, views the imminent ceremonies with dread, fearful the consequent personal publicity will throw the limelight on his guilty past.
4. Positive Identification
Aired 29 April 1954 • 30 min
A paroled orphan is floundering in a struggle to find himself and go straight.
5. The Quiet Life
Aired 6 May 1954 • 30 min
An immigrant laborer keeps silent about sub-standard cement being used on a new building because his crooked boss knows the laborer's guilty past.
6. Hit and Run
Aired 13 May 1954 • 30 min
Harry Larner (E.G. Marshall) is involved in a hot and run accident with a boy on a bike.
7. An Eye for an Eye
Aired 20 May 1954 • 30 min
An Army sergeant is being court-martialed on charges of betraying his comrades to the enemy while they were prisoners of war in Korea.
8. In the Deep Night
Aired 27 May 1954 • 30 min
A woman stands trial accused of stabbing her husband. Two witnesses to the crime are brought in and one is found to be withholding information that would incriminate the real killer.
9. The Eight Alien Boys
Aired 3 June 1954 • 30 min
An aging man reveres the memory of his seven ancestors who were killed in the battle of 1776. The plaque he erected on the hallowed ground is endangered by a proposed road construction and he launches a battle to prevent its destruction.
10. The Greedy Man
Aired 10 June 1954 • 30 min
A poor man asks the Legal Aid Society to help him get money from a wealthy, but incompetent relative.
11. The Desperate One
Aired 17 June 1954 • 30 min
A boy is a pawn in the divorce of his bitter parents.
12. The Spinster
Aired 24 June 1954 • 30 min
An old maid inherits $50,000 and finds herself irresistibly drawn to a handsome suitor.
13. Call Me Guilty
Aired 1 July 1954 • 30 min
A lonely old eccentric earns his livelihood by carving toys. Plagued by an unquenchable desire to be noticed, he is constantly showing up at the police station to confess to unsolved crimes which he has not committed.
14. The Scandal That Rocked the Town
Aired 8 July 1954 • 30 min
A basketball player worries that gamblers are causing his turn of bad luck on the court.
15. Murder at Red Oaks
Aired 15 July 1954 • 30 min
A man is accused of murder due to his past record and circumstantial evidence.
16. Ride with Terror
Aired 22 July 1954 • 30 min
A paroled convict is on his way home from prison, hitch-hikes a ride and gets caught up with a murderer on the lam.
17. A Matter of Life and Death
Aired 29 July 1954 • 30 min
A salesman is desperate to receive a certain account. The buyer is stricken with a heart attack and the salesman succumbs to temptation and robs an open safe.
18. The Blackmailer
Aired 5 August 1954 • 30 min
An illegal immigrant from Czechoslovakia is being blackmailed.
19. The Coney Island Mystery
Aired 12 August 1954 • 30 min
A Coney Island barker wants to take his girl out of the tinsel atmosphere but is suspected of murder before he himself can get away.
20. Man on the Hunt
Aired 19 August 1954 • 30 min
A man is faced with the temptation of easy money but armed robbery is not what he wants.
21. The Fugitive
Aired 26 August 1954 • 30 min
A boy is provided an alibi for a market robbery by his mother but finds the bottom falling out when his girlfriend refuses to be a party to the lie.
22. The Quiet Prisoner
Aired 2 September 1954 • 30 min
A man innocent of a crime decides to keep it to himself in fear for his family.
23. The Crisis
Aired 9 September 1954 • 30 min
A teenage boy steals a car and a conflict develops between the owners of the car when the man wants to press charges and his wife doesn't.
24. The Deadly Silence
Aired 16 September 1954 • 30 min
An eyewitness to a crime is afraid to give any information to the police. Because of her reticence, an innocent man faces conviction for a crime he did not commit.
25. Belmont Prison Break
Aired 23 September 1954 • 30 min
A lawyer risks his life and reputation for his client.