Sam Benedict

• Inger Stevens
• Vera Miles
• Fred Aldrich
• Elizabeth Ashley
• Phyllis Avery
• Larry Blyden
• Anthony Call
• Spencer Chan
• Sidney Clute
• Fred Coby
• Hazel Court
• Yvonne Craig
• Howard Duff
• Ross Elliott, four episodes as Marty Rhodes
• Stefan Gierasch
• Sam Gilman
• Gloria Grahame
• Ellen Holly
• Marsha Hunt
• Diana Hyland
• Jean Inness
• Ray Kellogg
• Nancy Kelly
• Jess Kirkpatrick
• Otto Kruger
• Elizabeth MacRae
• Joyce Meadows
• Burgess Meredith
• Gary Merrill
• John Nolan
• Richard O'Brien
• Maria Palmer
• Michael Parks
• Joseph V. Perry
• Claude Rains
• Ruth Roman
• Joseph SchildkrautJoseph Schildkraut received a [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055703/awards best actor Emmy Award nomination] in 1963 for his guest-starring role on Sam Benedict. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
• Barbara Stuart
• Kelly Thordsen
• George Tobias
• Arthur Tovey

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|EpisodeNumber = 1

|Title = Hannigan

|DirectedBy = Boris Sagal

|WrittenBy = E. Jack Neuman

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|9|15}}

|ShortSummary= Guest star Gene Raymond.

Guest star Lloyd Bochner.

Co-starring Katharine Bard as Patricia Hannigan, Tammy Marihugh as Bridgette Hannigan.

with Sandy Kenyon, John Alderson, Joan Tompkins, Emily McLaughlin, Donna Douglas, Robert Brubaker, Arthur Hanson, Larry Thor and Edgar Stehli as Barney Tibbets.

Uncredited (in order of appearance): Stuart Holmes, Eddie Hice, Eugene Jackson, Bert Stevens, Spencer Chan, Colin Kenny

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|EpisodeNumber = 2

|Title = A Split Week in San Quentin

|DirectedBy = Lamont Johnson

|WrittenBy = Joseph Calvelli

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|9|22}}

|ShortSummary= Guest star Jack Weston.

Introducing Katharine Ross.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Stefan Gierasch, Rex Ingram, George Kane, J. Pat O'Malley, David Sheiner, Larry Haddon, Robert Ball, Henry Beckman, Jeff Carter and Joe DeSantis.

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|EpisodeNumber = 3

|Title = Nor Practice Makes Perfect

|DirectedBy = Boris Sagal

|WrittenBy = William Froug

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|9|29}}

|ShortSummary= Guest star Claude Rains.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Linda Watkins, John Anderson, Narda Onyx, Ed Prentiss, Frank Puglia, Adrienne Marden, Joey Scott, Rupert Crosse.

Uncredited (in order of appearance): Jerry Ziesmer, Colin Kenny

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|EpisodeNumber = 4

|Title = Nothing Equals Nothing

|DirectedBy = Lamont Johnson

|WrittenBy = John W. Bloch

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|10|6}}

|ShortSummary= Guest star Nancy Kelly.

Also starring Otto Kruger.

and Constance Ford.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Edward Asner as Everett Colner, David Sheiner as Ben Williams, Joe De Santis as Judge Parrelli, Henry Beckman as Gerald Spangler, Karl Swenson as Barney Rosvalley.

Willie Tsang as Charlie Sin, Mai Tai Sing as Lily Sin, Kendrick Huxham as Evan, Gage Clarke as Judge Newland, Alexander Lockwood as Judge Baker.

Uncredited (in order of appearance): Bert Stevens, Eddie Hice, Colin Kenny, Robert Bice

Note: this is the series' sole episode that was filmed in color

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|EpisodeNumber = 5

|Title = Tears for a Nobody Doll

|DirectedBy = Roger Kay

|WrittenBy = Ellis Marcus

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|10|13}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Star Miyoshi Umeki.

Co-Starring Joanna Barnes as Cordelia Montagne, Michael Constantine as Judge Tower.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Virginia Gregg as Judge Semmeler, Aki Aleong as Arthur Nishibue, Joey Walsh as Howard Munsey, Harold Gould as Al Walpole, Beulah Quo as Mrs. Matsui, Allen Jung as Mr. Matsui, S. John Launer as Walter Price, John Alvin as Burt and Robert F. Simon as Bill Gottlieb.

Uncredited (in order of appearance): Eugene Jackson, Fred Aldrich

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|EpisodeNumber = 6

|Title = Twenty Aching Years

|DirectedBy = Paul Nickell

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Ellis Marcus and John Kneubuhl|t= Ellis Marcus}}

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|10|20}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Starring Herschel Bernardi.

Harry Townes.

Paul Carr.

Special Guest Star Joanne Linville.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Robert J. Wilke as Radich, Alexander Lockwood as Judge Baker, Francis de Sales as Judge Kramer, Marjorie Corley as Court Clerk.

Bob Biheller as Reald, Gene Benton as Court Clerk and Leonard Nimoy as Joe Shatley.

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|EpisodeNumber = 7

|Title = Maddon's Folly

|DirectedBy = William Graham

|WrittenBy = E. Jack Neuman

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|10|27}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Starring Vera Miles.

and Robert Lansing.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Woodrow Parfrey as Vernon Kurtz, Paul Newlan as Judge Quinbury, Ken Renard as Bentley Coombs, Edward O'Brien as Christopher Dane, Joel Fluellen as Ames, Eric Norman as Father Dodgan, Donald Kerr as Cab Driver, Roy Taguchi as Waiter and Bernard Kates as Dobmeyer.

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|EpisodeNumber = 8

|Title = Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells

|DirectedBy = Ida Lupino

|WrittenBy = Joseph Petracca & David Rayfiel

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|11|3}}

|ShortSummary= Guest starring Joseph Schildkraut.

and Zohra Lampert.

Special Guest Star Larry Blyden.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Barry Kelley as Senator Condor, Ross Elliott as Marty Rhodes, Bernard Fein as Harry Owens, Darryl Richards as Leon Katz.

Lewis Charles as Charlie, Francis DeSales as Judge, Tom Nello as Cab Driver, Rusty Lane as Court Clerk.

and Stanley Adams as Square John McWayde.

Uncredited: Eddie Hice.

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|EpisodeNumber = 9

|Title = Life Is a Lie, Love Is a Cheat

|DirectedBy = Don Medford

|WrittenBy = George Eckstein

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|11|10}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Star Audrey Meadows.

Co-Starring Joe Mantell.

Co-Starring Ed Nelson.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Robert H. Harris, Rusty Lane, Paul Newlan, Ollie O'Toole, John Anderson, Jeane Wood, Roy Glenn, Vince Chase and Dara Howard as Gloria Gorman.

Uncredited: Caryl Lincoln

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|EpisodeNumber = 10

|Title = The Bird of Warning

|DirectedBy = Abner Biberman

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Leonard Heideman & Paul Mason|s=Barry Trivers}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|11|17}}

|ShortSummary= Guest star Diana Hyland.

Co-Starring Maria Palmer,

and George Tobias.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Robert H. Harris as Judge Xavier Thomas, Noah Keen as Judge Travis, Adam Williams as Burton Harper, J. Edward McKinley as Dr. Albert Burnson.

Henry Beckman as Jerry Spangler, Ollie O'Toole as Court Clerk, Will J. White as Police Officer and Gale Page as Mrs. Heistand.

Uncredited: Eddie Hice

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|EpisodeNumber = 11

|Title = The View from an Ivory Tower

|DirectedBy = Paul Nickell

|WrittenBy = Frederick C. Houghton Jr.

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|11|24}}

|ShortSummary= Guest star Dan O'Herlihy

and Phyllis Avery.

Co-Starring Lawrence Dobkin,

and David Sheiner.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Vaughn Taylor as Pine, Leo Penn as George Klaus, Al Ruscio as Nico Garza, Grace Lee Whitney as Susan Craig, Robert Brubaker as Lieutenant Eubank, John Zaremba as Medical Examiner, Ollie O'Toole as Clerk, Mike Dugan as Deputy, Steve Harris as Assistant District Attorney

and George Macready as Jason Kirwell

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|EpisodeNumber = 12

|Title = Everyone's Playing Polo

|DirectedBy = Ida Lupino

|WrittenBy = Joseph Calvelli

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|12|1}}

|ShortSummary= Guest star Burgess Meredith

Co-Starring Milton Selzer,

Joby Baker,

Yvonne Craig,

and Irene Dailey.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

John Anderson as Jim Bradley, Harlan Warde as Judge Raymond Dewey, Helen Kleeb as Hawknosed Woman, Robert Bailey as Judge Ionic, Tom Greenway as Tom Brelson, Ray Montgomery as Policeman, Maxine Gates as Chubby Woman

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|EpisodeNumber = 13

|Title = Too Many Strangers

|DirectedBy = Lawrence Dobkin

|WrittenBy = Ellis Marcus

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|12|8}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Star Marsha Hunt.

Special Guest Star Gloria Grahame.

Co-Starring Judi Meredith and Michael Parks.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Robert J. Wilke as Lt. Radich, Ross Elliott as Marty Rhodes, Bernard Fein as Harry Owen. Harriet MacGibbon as Melia Branton, John Duke as Perry Lewis, Robert Bailey as Judge Paul Ioni, Arthur Hanson as Judge.

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|EpisodeNumber = 14

|Title = So Various, So Beautiful

|DirectedBy = Abner Biberman

|WrittenBy = Arthur Orloff

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|12|15}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 15

|Title = Where There's a Will

|DirectedBy = Paul Nickell

|WrittenBy = Art Wallace

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1962|12|22}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 16

|Title = The Target Over the Hill

|DirectedBy = Richard Donner

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Leonard Heideman and E. Jack Neuman|s=Leonard Heideman}}

|OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1962|12|29}}

|ShortSummary= Guest star Inger Stevens.

Co-Starring Everett Sloane,

and Arch Johnson.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Jacques Aubuchon as Dr. Arnold Kozlenko, Patrick Hale as Billy Stone, Edward Mallory as Resident Doctor, Crahan Denton as Dr. Anson Holiday, Byron Kane as Court Clerk, Sidney Clute as Patient, Clancy Cooper as bailiff and Dolores Sutton as Sarah Franklin.

Uncredited: Don Ames

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|EpisodeNumber = 17

|Title = Not Even the Gulls Shall Weep

|Directed By = Richard Donner

Story by John Hawkins Teleplay by Sidney Marshall

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|1|5}}

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|EpisodeNumber = 18

|Title = The Boiling Point

|DirectedBy = Richard Donner

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Paul Mason|s=S. Bar-David}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|1|12}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Star David Wayne.

Special Guest Star Gary Merrill.

Co-Starring Abner Biberman

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Kenneth Tobey as Lt. Pete Kender, Alexander Lockwood as Judge Baker, Elizabeth MacRae as Gretchen Jerome, John McLiam as Inspector.

William Sargent as Art Walters, Jo Helton as Claude Merriman, Arthur Hanson as Tom Alderson, Susan Adams as Iris Walters, Lisa Froug as Carole Merriman

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|EpisodeNumber = 19

|Title = Green Room, Grey Morning

|DirectedBy = Abner Biberman

|WrittenBy = Carey Wilbur

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|1|19}}

|ShortSummary= Guest star Ruth Roman.

Co-Starring Tige Andrews.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Sam Gilman as Dr. Springheart, Frank Albertson as Frank Gordon, Ken Lynch as Charles DeFranco, Ralph Manza as Pat Smith, Anthony Call as Intern, Bernadette Hale as Receiving Nurse.

Uncredited: Albert Cavens

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|EpisodeNumber = 20

|Title = Run Softly, Oh Softly

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|1|26}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Starring: Brian Keith, and Lori Martin

With Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

Philip Ober as Leo Calbern, Max Showalter as Tom Buchannan, Bert Remsen as Jack Seibert, Robert H. Harris as Judge F. Xavier Thomas, Bernard Fein as Harry Owens, Ed Prentiss as Pete Cahurn, Valentin de Vargas as Tiburcio Ibanez, and Barbara Stuart as Mrs. Herman Beasley

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|EpisodeNumber = 21

|Title = Sugar and Spice and Everything...

|DirectedBy = Ida Lupino

|WrittenBy = Sidney Marshall

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|2|9}}

|ShortSummary= Guest star Arthur O'Connell.

Also Starring Yvonne Craig.

Co-Starring Robert Emhardt,

Co-Starring Gail Kobe.

with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner.

William Schallert as Neil Carlson, Paul Birch as Capt. Boyd, Peter Mamakos as Marco, Tyler McVey as Newsman, Richard Donner as Grover Stann, Bill Baldwin as Court clerk, Paul Kent as Doctor, Alfred Shelly as Bailiff, Mary Benoit as Matron and Robert Ellin as Dr. Michael Franklin.

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|EpisodeNumber = 22

|Title = Some Fires Die Slowly

|DirectedBy = Richard Donner

|WrittenBy = Art Wallace

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|2|16}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Starring Barry Sullivan

and James MacArthur.

Special Guest Star Betty Field

George Mitchell as Joseph Martinson, Karl Swenson as Barney Rossvalley, Gage Clark as Judge Edward Rogers, Jesslyn Fax as Howard Munsey, Ted Knight as Judge Walker, Norman Burton as Lt. Warren Jones, Joe Perry as Marshall Frescoe and Dara Howard as Cindy Wynn.

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|EpisodeNumber = 23

|Title = Image of a Toad

|DirectedBy = Don Richardson

|WrittenBy = Ellis Marcus

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|2|23}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Starring: Nehemiah Persoff, and Beverly Garland. Co-Starring: Doro Merande, Patricia Huston with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner

Russell Collins as Walker Smith, James Flavin as Douglas Ward, Paul Newlan as Judge Morton K. Doyle, William Zuckert as Ben Weber, Charlotte Fletcher as Hostess, Charity Grace as Mrs. Mary Hart

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|EpisodeNumber = 24

|Title = Seventeen Gypsies and a Sinner Named Charlie

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|3|2}}

|ShortSummary= Special Guest Star: Edmond O'Brien as Charlie Dunphie. Introducing Special Guest Star: Maria O'Brien as Mary

With: Ross Elliott as Marty Rhodes, Robert Bailey as Judge Ionic, Barbara Morrison as Mrs. Philbrook

Kurt Russell as Knute, Kyle Johnson as Dutch, Katy Sweet as Emily, Barry Livingston as Frankie, Manuel Padilla as Joey, Rory Stevens as Augie

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|EpisodeNumber = 25

|Title = Accomplice

|DirectedBy = Richard Donner

|WrittenBy = Larry Cohen

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|3|9}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Star: Eddie Albert. Co-Starring: Phillip Pine, Roger Perry and Brock Peters.

Oliver McGowan as Judge DeFranco, Alexander Lockwood as Judge Baker, Frank Leo as Court Clerk, Art Lewis as Reporter, John Nolan as Reporter and Ellen Holly as Elissa Reagan

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|EpisodeNumber = 26

|Title = Read No Evil

|DirectedBy = Abner Biberman

|WrittenBy = Robert Bloomfield

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|3|16}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Star: Robert Lansing. Co-Starring: Olive Deering and Susan Silo. Introducing Frank Sinatra, Jr. as Roy Faring, with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner

Gregory Morton as Judge Vesy, Shirley O'Hara as Helen Eddy, Paul Fix as Jason Hewitt, Michael Harris as Foster, Walter Kelley as Court Clerk, and Donald Woods as Byron Leonard

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|EpisodeNumber = 27

|Title = Of Rusted Cannons and Fallen Sparrows

|DirectedBy = Richard Donner

|WrittenBy = John T. Dugan

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|3|23}}

|ShortSummary= Guest Star: James Gregory. Special Guest Star: Nina Foch. Co-Starring: Michael Strong with Joan Tompkins as Trudy Wagner

Lisabeth Hush as Jacquie Bonneau, James Anderson as Sheriff Conway, Donald Barry as Judge Edward Barrett, Russell Thorsen as Thomas Morgan, Bill Walker as Negro Victim, Bobby Troup as Bearded Man

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|EpisodeNumber = 28

|Title = Season for Vengeance

|DirectedBy =

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1963|3|30}}

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"Sam Benedict is based on the real living character of J. W. (Jake) Ehrlich but the stories are fictional."

On November 22, 2016, Warner Bros. released Sam Benedict – The Complete Series on DVD via their Warner Archive Collection. This is a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) release, available through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.[http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sam-Benedict-The-Complete-Series/22769 'The Complete Series' of the 1962 NBC Legal Drama] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028221459/http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Sam-Benedict-The-Complete-Series/22769 |date=2016-10-28 }}

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Category:1962 American television series debuts

Category:1963 American television series endings

Category:American legal drama television series

Category:Black-and-white American television shows

Category:American English-language television shows

Category:NBC television dramas

Category:Television series by MGM Television

Category:Television shows set in San Francisco