

Arrest and Trial
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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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Call It A Lifetime (1)
15-09-19631h 30mA 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.
- Ep 2
2.Isn't It A Lovely View (2)
22-09-19631h 30mA 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.
- Ep 3
3.Tears From A Silver Dipper
29-09-19631h 30mCaught 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.
- Ep 4
4.A Shield Is For Hiding Behind
06-10-19631h 30mDeke 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...
- Ep 5
5.My Name is Martin Burnham
13-10-19631h 30mA 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...
- Ep 6
6.A Flame in the Dark
20-10-19631h 30mAnderson 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...
- Ep 7
7.Whose Little Girl Are You?
27-10-19631h 30mA 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.
- Ep 8
8.The Witnesses
03-11-19631h 30mA 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...
- Ep 9
9.Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart
10-11-19631h 30mAfter 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...
- Ep 10
10.The Quality of Justice
17-11-19631h 30mAnderson is searching for a child-killer, unaware that the killer is mentally retarded and very unstable.
- Ep 11
11.We May Be Better Strangers
01-12-19631h 30mA 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...
- Ep 12
12.Journey Into Darkness
08-12-19631h 30mJourney Into Darkness is an episode of the TV program Arrest and Trial.
- Ep 13
13.Some Weeks Are All Mondays
15-12-19631h 30mAnderson realizes that the daughter of a well-known playwright may have murdered her stepfather.
- Ep 14
14.Run, Little Man, Run
22-12-19631h 30mFred 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.
- Ep 15
15.Funny Man With A Monkey
05-01-19641h 30mA night club comic is suspected of killing a doctor to get narcotics to fed his hunger and addiction.

16.Signals From An Ancient Flame
24-11-19631h 30m- Ep 17
17.Onward and Upward
19-01-19641h 30mA sleazy corporate yes-man inherits the unpleasant task of corpse disposal after his boss murders his mistress.
- Ep 18
18.An Echo of Conscience
26-01-19641h 30mAnderson 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.
- Ep 19
19.Somewhat Lower Than the Angels
02-02-19641h 30mA priest’s faith in the innocence of the woman arrested for killing his sister convinces Egan to take the case.
- Ep 20
20.People In Glass Houses
09-02-19641h 30mTwo criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.
- Ep 21
21.The Best There Is (1)
16-02-19641h 30mEgan 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...
- Ep 22
22.A Roll of the Dice (2)
23-02-19641h 30mAn ambitious young hustler, falling victim to his gambling addiction, embezzles a large sum from his employer and goes on a spree in Las Vegas.
- Ep 23
23.The Black Flower
01-03-19641h 30mBack 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.
- Ep 24
24.A Circle of Strangers
08-03-19641h 30mAlex 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...
- Ep 25
25.Modus Operandi
15-03-19641h 30mLois 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...
- Ep 26
26.Tigers Are For Jungles
22-03-19641h 30mA 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.
- Ep 27
27.The Revenge of the Worm
29-03-19641h 30mAnderson 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...
- Ep 28
28.He Ran For His Life
05-04-19641h 30mEgan investigates the ex-wife of an unstable man arrested for kidnapping his own son and holding the police at bay with a gun.
- Ep 29
29.Those Whose Love Has Made (1)
12-04-19641h 30mTwo 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...
- Ep 30
30.Birds of a Feather (2)
19-04-19641h 30mA 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...
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