Arrest and Trial

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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.

Sep 15, 19631 seasons31 episodesEndedEN

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Brian Dennehy

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Seasons

Season 1

30 episodes

Premiered Sep 15, 1963

Episodes

1–6 of 30

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Ep 1

Call It A Lifetime (1)

Sep 15, 1963

90m

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.

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Ep 2

Isn't It A Lovely View (2)

Sep 22, 1963

90m

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.

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Ep 3

Tears From A Silver Dipper

Sep 29, 1963

90m

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.

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Ep 4

A Shield Is For Hiding Behind

Oct 6, 1963

90m

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.

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Ep 5

My Name is Martin Burnham

Oct 13, 1963

90m

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.

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Ep 6

A Flame in the Dark

Oct 20, 1963

90m

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.

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