Sam Benedict - Season 1

When his brother dies, James Hannigan is overcome with grief---at his small share of the estate.

Entertainer Joey Kent was convicted on a narcotics charge mainly because of his obnoxious and uncooperative attitude - and now he wants Sam to help him.

Sam Benedict defends Thonis J Jundelin, San Fransisco's one-time greatest lawyer, against a charge of professional misconduct.

San Francisco socialite Sarah Wallace Sykes shocks the city by murdering her husband. Benedict agrees to handle the defense and decides to plead insanity.

Sam agrees to help Sumiko Matsui, whose in-laws are suing to obtain custody of her unborn child - on the grounds that Sumiko is mentally retarded and unfit to be a mother.

When a college boy meats death while resisting arrest, hard-nosed police veteran Tony Delgano is threatened with indictment for manslaughter. Sam Benedict and associate Hank Tabor take the case.

Midge Maddon's world crashes when she hears that her father had embezzled nearly $150,000 before his sudden death.

Sarah Friedman is expecting her first baby, and she's also expecting a visit from her very religious mother. Sarah was married in a civil ceremony, but she begs Sam to help persuade her husband to have a second wedding performed by a rabbi - before Momma arrives.

Sam gets involved in a lawsuit between two lovebirds.

Sam's case: a client with a jealous wife. Hank's case: a drunk-driving girl friend.

Lawyer Hartnett Marbury dislikes Sam ---but he respects him enough to hire him as defense attorney in his own murder trial.

When multimillionaire Cyrus Carter puts on a toga and begins meditating in a San Francisco park, his longtime friend, Sam Benedict, must prove Cyrus' sanity and save him millions from greedy relatives.

Sam Benedict defends young Larry Wilcox, who is accused of the murder of one of San Francisco's most respected citizens.

A woman's testimony caused an innocent man's execution. If she is found guilty of perjury, she faces the death penalty herself.

Sam steps in when an insurance company won't pay off a policy to a condemned murderer.

The routine adoption hearing for custody of Billy stone is interrupted by his natural mother, who insists that she has overcome her addiction to narcotics and wants the boy back.

A love from long ago, Ruth Tyler, visits Sam Benedict for the first time in 15 years. She wants him to finalize a divorce from her husband, Robert Tyler, but she's unaware that Sam already has agreed to defend Robert.

A police officer out to make things difficult for an old friend: gangster Eddie Jerome.

An attorney nearly dies in an auto accident the night before his client, convicted murderer Mickey Herman, is scheduled for the gas chamber. Sam is called in to find new evidence to get a stay of execution for Herman.

After a big insurance swindle, executive Mitch Dawlt flees the country with plenty of cash - but without his daughter Laurie. Mitch soon returns and asks Sam for help - but the damage to Laurie is a more serious problem.

When Sam is called in to handle the defense of dancer Amy Vickers, charged with murder, he's busy with another trial - so he sends Hank to fill in for him.

Doug Stover has built up his lamp factory just for his son Bert, but the boy refuses to join the firm. When the factory burns down, the elder Stover is accused of setting the fire to collect the insurance.

Convict Vernon Hill has fallen in love - on Alcatraz - with prison psychologist Jan Fielding, who is preparing him for a parole. But Vernon insists he doesn't want to see her once he is released.

Jailed on several charges of grand theft, Charlie Dunphie appears to have bilked a lot of money from a lot of charities, for 17 reasons - the 17 children he "adopted".

Sam and lawyer Lewis Wiley agree on the defense for two accused murderers then Wiley makes a secret deal.

A teacher's job is threatened when he opposes local censorship policies.

John Paul Elcott seeks Sam's legal advice when he decides that his right to speak freely - about his racial prejudice - is being curtailed. At the same time, suspected Communist Nora Hildon asks Hank to defend her.

A woman is accused of murder and doesn't even care to find a lawyer to defend her.