Arrest and Trial

{{About|the 1963 ABC TV program|the 2000 syndicated TV program|Arrest & Trial}}

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| image = Chuck Connors Joseph Schildkraut Arrest and Trial 1963.JPG

| caption = Chuck Connors as John Egan and guest star Joseph Schildkraut as his client

| genre = Crime/legal drama

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| theme_music_composer = Bronisław Kaper

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| composer = Franz Waxman

| country = United States

| language = English

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| num_episodes = 30

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| executive_producer = Frank P. Rosenberg

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Arthur H. Nadel
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Charles Russell

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| camera = Single-camera

| runtime = 90 mins.

| company = Universal Television

| channel = ABC

| first_aired = {{Start date|1963|09|15}}

| last_aired = {{End date|1964|09|06}}

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Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&dq=%22Arrest+and+Trial+Crime+Drama%22&pg=PA78 |first1=Tim |last1=Brooks |author-link1=Tim Brooks (historian) |first2=Earle |last2=Marsh |year=2007 |edition=9 |title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present |page=78 |publisher=Random House Publishing |location=New York |isbn=978-0-345-49773-4 |access-date=2024-06-04 }}{{cite book|last1=Berard|first1=Jeanette M. |last2=Englund|first2=Klaudia |title=Television Series and Specials Scripts, 1946-1992: A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection|url=https://archive.org/details/televisionseries00bera|url-access=limited|year=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-786-45437-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/televisionseries00bera/page/n25 17]}} series that ran during the 1963–1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 pm Eastern.

Overview

The majority of episodes consists of two segments. Set in Los Angeles, the first part ("The Arrest") followed Detective Sergeants Nick Anderson (Ben Gazzara) and Dan Kirby (Roger Perry) of the Los Angeles Police Department as they tracked down and captured a criminal. The apprehended suspect was then defended in the second part ("The Trial") by criminal attorney John Egan (Chuck Connors), who was often up against Deputy District Attorney Jerry Miller (John Larch) and his assistant, Barry Pine (John Kerr, who later became an actual lawyer).

Gazzara agreed to play the role of Anderson only after extracting a promise from the producer that scripts would avoid stereotypical depictions of police officers.

In a 1963 TV Guide interview, Gazzara described his portrayal of Anderson: "I'm supposed to be a thinking man's cop. I'm a serious student of human behavior, more concerned with what creates the criminal than how to punish him. In other words, I'm not the kind of cop who asks, 'Where were you the night of April 13th?' It's my job to show that there is room for passion and intellectualism and personal display even within a policeman."

Arrest and Trial debuted on September 15, 1963. Its last telecast was on April 19, 1964, with reruns continuing until September 6, 1964. On April 24, 1964, it became the first American import to be broadcast on the UK's BBC2.

The same premise was adopted decades later by a more financially successful series, Law & Order, although the second half trial portion is focused on the prosecutorial side for that series, rather than the defense.

Cast

Ben Gazzara as Detective Sgt. Nick Anderson
Chuck Connors as Attorney John Egan
Roger Perry as Detective Sgt. Dan Kirby
John Kerr as Barry Pine
John Larch as Deputy D.A. Jerry Miller
Joe Higgins as Jake Shakespeare

Episodes

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|EpisodeNumber=1

|Title = Call It a Lifetime

|DirectedBy = John Brahm

|WrittenBy = Herb Meadow

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|09|15}}

|ShortSummary= A truck driver in pursuit of cargo thieves fatally drives off the road a motorcycle policeman he had previously threatened.

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|EpisodeNumber=2

|Title = Isn't It a Lovely View

|DirectedBy = Jack Smight

|WrittenBy = Don Brinkley
(based on a story by David Friedkin and Morton Fine)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|09|22}}

|ShortSummary= A man is stabbed on a bench outside an amusement park, unraveling a dark tale of industrial espionage and blackmail. A disabled woman who spends hours looking at the surroundings from a nearby building à la Rear Window claims she did not see anything... or did she?

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|EpisodeNumber=3

|Title = Tears from a Silver Dipper

|DirectedBy = Arthur H. Nadel
(also producer)

|WrittenBy = Sy Salkowitz

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|09|29}}

|ShortSummary= A soldier of Mexican ethnicity is accused of theft and murder against a backdrop of prejudice.

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|EpisodeNumber=4

|Title = A Shield is for Hiding Behind

|DirectedBy = David Lowell Rich
(also producer)

|WrittenBy = John McGreevey

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|10|06}}

|ShortSummary= Sgt. Anderson kills in self-defense a gang member suspected of murdering a policeman, but is put on trial for second-degree murder. Only the gang member's kid brother knows the truth, but he can't bring himself to tarnish the idealized image of his sibling in the eyes of his parents.

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|EpisodeNumber=5

|Title = My Name is Martin Burnham

|DirectedBy = Ralph Senensky

|WrittenBy = Larry Cohen

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|10|13}}

|ShortSummary= A construction worker is brought in for questioning about assaults on women in his neighborhood. Although a victim directly exonerates him, the experience leaves him shaken. Incapable of returning home to face his family, he attempts to commit suicide by jumping from the skyscraper under construction where he used to work; but it is the foreman - responsible for firing him - who struggled to stop him who falls down the building. He is put on trial for first-degree murder, where he is determined to secure the death penalty for himself.

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|EpisodeNumber=6

|Title = A Flame in the Dark

|DirectedBy = Arthur H. Nadel

|WrittenBy = Richard Fielder

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|10|20}}

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|EpisodeNumber=7

|Title = Whose Little Girl Are You?

|DirectedBy = Jack Smight

|WrittenBy = Paul Mason and Kenneth M. Rosen
(based on a story by Rosen)

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|10|27}}

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|EpisodeNumber=8

|Title = The Witnesses

|DirectedBy = Alex March

|WrittenBy = Max Ehrlich

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|11|03}}

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|EpisodeNumber=9

|Title = Inquest Into a Bleeding Heart

|DirectedBy = David Lowell Rich

|WrittenBy = Antony Ellis

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|11|10}}

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|EpisodeNumber=10

|Title = The Quality of Justice

|DirectedBy = Sydney PollackWrongly attributed to Lewis Milestone on the Internet Movie Database. See: {{cite book|last=Meyer |first=Janet L.|title=Sydney Pollack: A Critical Filmography |publisher=McFarland |year=1998 |pages=209 |isbn=9780786404865}}

|WrittenBy = Howard Rodman

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|11|17}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=11

|Title = We May Be Better Strangers

|DirectedBy = David Lowell Rich

|WrittenBy = Halsted Welles

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|12|01}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=12

|Title = Journey into Darkness

|DirectedBy = Jack Smight

|WrittenBy = Alfred Brenner

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|12|08}}

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|EpisodeNumber=13

|Title = Some Weeks Are All Mondays

|DirectedBy = Lewis Allen

|WrittenBy = Teleplay by Barry Trivers Story by Bill Ballinger and Barry Trivers

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|12|15}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=14

|Title = Run, Little Man, Run

|DirectedBy = Richard Irving

|WrittenBy = Herb Meadow

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|12|22}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=15

|Title = Funny Man with a Monkey

|DirectedBy = Ralph Senensky

|WrittenBy = Jerome Ross

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|01|05}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=16

|Title = Signals of an Ancient Flame

|DirectedBy = Earl Bellamy

|WrittenBy = Teleplay by Donald Brinkley Story by Herbert A. Spiro

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|01|12}}

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|EpisodeNumber=17

|Title = Onward and Upward

|DirectedBy = Herman Hoffman

|WrittenBy = Mark Rodgers

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|01|19}}

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|EpisodeNumber=18

|Title = An Echo of Conscience

|DirectedBy = Lewis Milestone

|WrittenBy = Teleplay by William Woolfolk and Franklin Barton Story by William Woolfolk

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|01|26}}

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|EpisodeNumber=19

|Title = Somewhat Lower Than the Angels

|DirectedBy = William Claxton

|WrittenBy = Robert Crean

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|02|02}}

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|EpisodeNumber=20

|Title = People in Glass Houses

|DirectedBy = Alan Crosland, Jr.

|WrittenBy = Antony Ellis

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|02|09}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=21

|Title = The Best There Is

|DirectedBy = Leon Benson

|WrittenBy = Herb Meadow, Richard Levinson & William Link

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|02|16}}

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|EpisodeNumber=22

|Title = A Roll of the Dice

|DirectedBy = David Lowell Rich

|WrittenBy = Abel Kandel

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|02|23}}

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|EpisodeNumber=23

|Title = The Black Flower

|DirectedBy = Earl Bellamy

|WrittenBy = Don Brinkley

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|03|01}}

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|EpisodeNumber=24

|Title = A Circle of Strangers

|DirectedBy = Lewis Allen

|WrittenBy = Franklin Barton

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|03|08}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=25

|Title = Modus Operandi

|DirectedBy = David Lowell Rich

|WrittenBy = Jerome D. Ross and Don Brinkley

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|03|15}}

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|EpisodeNumber=26

|Title = Tigers Are for Jungles

|DirectedBy = Bernard Girald

|WrittenBy = George Kirgo

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|03|22}}

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|EpisodeNumber=27

|Title = The Revenge of the Worm

|DirectedBy = Charles S. Dubin

|WrittenBy = Ben Maddow

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|03|29}}

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|EpisodeNumber=28

|Title = He Ran for His Life

|DirectedBy = Elliot Silverstein

|WrittenBy = Teleplay by Don Brinkley Story by Mark Rodgers

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|04|05}}

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|EpisodeNumber=29

|Title = Those Which Love Has Made

|DirectedBy = Alex March

|WrittenBy = Mann Rubin

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|04|12}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=30

|Title = Birds of a Feather

|DirectedBy = Robert Butler

|WrittenBy = John McGreevey

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1964|04|19}}

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Guest stars

Awards

Arrest and Trial earned four Emmy nominations in 1964. Two were for Martine Bartlett and Anjanette Comer for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress, one was for Roddy McDowall for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor, and the other was for Danny Landres, Milton Shifman and Richard Wray for Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Television.{{cite web|title=Emmy Nominations 1964|url=http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominations/award-search?search_api_views_fulltext=arrest+and+trial&submit=Search&search_api_views_fulltext_1=&search_api_views_fulltext_3=&search_api_views_fulltext_2=&search_api_views_fulltext_4=&field_nominations_year=1949-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nominations_year_1=2015-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nomination_category=All|publisher=www.emmys.com|access-date=5 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402100425/http://www.emmys.com/awards/nominations/award-search?search_api_views_fulltext=arrest+and+trial&submit=Search&search_api_views_fulltext_1=&search_api_views_fulltext_3=&search_api_views_fulltext_2=&search_api_views_fulltext_4=&field_nominations_year=1949-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nominations_year_1=2015-01-01+00%3A00%3A00&field_nomination_category=All|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}}

Home media

On November 22, 2011, Timeless Media Group released Arrest and Trial- The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. The 10-disc set features all 30 episodes of the series.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Arrest-Trial-The-Complete-Series/16116 |title=Arrest and Trial DVD news: Announcement for Arrest and Trial - the Complete Series | TVShowsOnDVD.com |access-date=2011-10-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120410020844/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Arrest-Trial-The-Complete-Series/16116 |archive-date=2012-04-10 }}