Arrest and Trial — Season 1

Aired 15 September 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.

Aired 22 September 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.

Aired 29 September 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.

Aired 6 October 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.

Aired 13 October 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.

Aired 20 October 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.

Aired 27 October 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.

Aired 3 November 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.

Aired 10 November 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.

Aired 17 November 1963 • 90 min

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

Aired 1 December 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.

Aired 8 December 1963 • 90 min

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

Aired 15 December 1963 • 90 min

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

Aired 22 December 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.

Aired 5 January 1964 • 90 min

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

Aired 24 November 1963 • 90 min

Aired 19 January 1964 • 90 min

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

Aired 26 January 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.

Aired 2 February 1964 • 90 min

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

Aired 9 February 1964 • 90 min

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

Aired 16 February 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.

Aired 23 February 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.

Aired 1 March 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.

Aired 8 March 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.

Aired 15 March 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..

Aired 22 March 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.

Aired 29 March 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.

Aired 5 April 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.

Aired 12 April 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.

Aired 19 April 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.