Trials of O'Brien - Season 1

Trials of O'Brien - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes22
DatesSep 18, 1965 - Mar 18, 1966

Episodes

Over Defence Is Out
Season 1Episode 160 min

Over Defence Is Out

O'Brien represents a client who was charged with murder after being released from prison. Guest star: Vincent Gardenia
Sep 18, 1965
Bargain Day on the Street of Regret
Season 1Episode 260 min

Bargain Day on the Street of Regret

O'Brien wins the contract of boxer Joe Rooney (Robert Blake) in a dice game, but the pugnacious Rooney is in jail for stealing money from his former manager. Guest Stars include Hershel Bernardi (star of series ""Arnie"", a Broadway ""Fiddler"", and much more), Tony Musante (""Toma"") and Albert Dekker (""Dr.Cyclops"", ""Experiment Perilous"", probably one of his last roles before his strange auto-erotic death) and the lovely, talented Judi West (""Fortune Cookie""), in her television debut, as Joe's girlfriend.
Sep 25, 1965
Notes on a Spanish Prisoner
Season 1Episode 360 min

Notes on a Spanish Prisoner

Bunco artist Ollie Maxwell has been conned at his own game: girlfriend Eva Grimaldi has disappeared with the $2500 he lent her to ransom her millionaire father, a political prisoner in Latin America.

Oct 2, 1965
Never Bet on Anything That Talks
Season 1Episode 460 min

Never Bet on Anything That Talks

O'Brien's English bookie is charged in the death of an accountant, but the person who can clear him is nowhere to be found.
Oct 9, 1965
What Can Go Wrong?
Season 1Episode 560 min

What Can Go Wrong?

After discovering that a man is dating his ex-wife (Joanna Barnes), O'Brien delightedly sets him up as a "pigeon" in order to trap a killer. Guest stars: Roger Moore and Michael Constantine.
Oct 16, 1965
Good-bye and Keep Cool
Season 1Episode 660 min

Good-bye and Keep Cool

A woman (Cloris Leachman) is accused of murdering her husband, and retains O'Brien to defend her. Guest star: Robert Loggia.
Oct 23, 1965
A Gaggle of Girls
Season 1Episode 760 min

A Gaggle of Girls

O'Brien is retained by a Mother Superior in order to persuade the owner of an adjoining cafe to permit St. Anthony's Youth Center to use its garden.
Oct 30, 1965
The Trouble with Archie
Season 1Episode 860 min

The Trouble with Archie

Archie Vasoulian has been embezzling funds from the company he runs with his partner Ben. When things get too hot for him, he hires an arsonist to burn the books.

Nov 6, 1965
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
Season 1Episode 960 min

How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?

A "heist artist" who is accused of fatally stabbing a dealer of rare violins is defended by O'Brien. Guest stars: Norman Fell, Dana Elcar, Kurt Kasznar, Frank Langella, and former boxer Jake LaMotta.
Nov 13, 1965
Charlie Has All the Luck
Season 1Episode 1060 min

Charlie Has All the Luck

While being bugged by his ex-wife to sign the lease on her luxurious apartment, O'Brien must defend a client involved in a fatal shooting that follows a fixed horse race. Guest stars: Martin Sheen, Tony Roberts, and Philip Bosco.
Nov 20, 1965
Picture Me a Murder
Season 1Episode 1160 min

Picture Me a Murder

O'Brien represents a movie producer (Alan Alda) who was charged with resisting arrest while filming an "underground" movie. Guest stars: Claude Akins, Charles Grodin, Jessica Walter, and Joanna Pettet.
Nov 27, 1965
Dead End on Flugel Street
Season 1Episode 1260 min

Dead End on Flugel Street

A burlesque comedian (Milton Berle) is involved in murder when his straight man is killed after making advances on the comedian's wife.
Dec 3, 1965
No Justice for the Judge
Season 1Episode 1360 min

No Justice for the Judge

An eccentric judge (Burgess Meredith) engages O'Brien to represent him on charges of mental disability that could remove him from the bench. Guest stars: Robert Emhardt, Barnard Hughes, and Ken Kercheval.
Dec 10, 1965
Leave It to Me
Season 1Episode 1460 min

Leave It to Me

O'Brien tries to have a will declared invalid before three greedy heirs (Angela Lansbury, George Rose and Thayer David) kill each other in a house that's booby-trapped from cellar to attic.
Dec 17, 1965
Alarums and Excursions
Season 1Episode 1560 min

Alarums and Excursions

A foster father (John McGiver), who is content to keep collecting welfare checks, hires O'Brien to keep seven children with him after an adoption judge takes the youths away from him.
Jan 7, 1966
The 10-Foot, 6-Inch Pole
Season 1Episode 1660 min

The 10-Foot, 6-Inch Pole

Accountant Jerry Quinlan was an apparent suicide, until it is discovered that he had questions and suspicions about his company's books which he was about to report.
Jan 14, 1966
A Horse Called Destiny
Season 1Episode 1760 min

A Horse Called Destiny

O'Brien represents a spiritualist in the murder of a wealthy client whose death he has predicted.
Jan 21, 1966
The Blue Steel Suite
Season 1Episode 1860 min

The Blue Steel Suite

Protesting their living conditions, the prisoners of the state prison's isolation cell block have taken 3 hostages whom they will only release if O'Brien will make a public presentation of their case.
Jan 28, 1966
The Partridge Papers
Season 1Episode 1960 min

The Partridge Papers

James Partridge, who once worked for British Intelligence, believes he was the target of a hit and run driver who was responsible for landing O'Brien in the hospital with a broken leg. This episode was the dramatic television debut of singer Sheila MacRae (wife of Gorden MacRae, and TV wife of Jackie Gleason in his ""Amecrican Scene"" magazine Honeymooners period)
Feb 4, 1966
The Greatest Game (1)
Season 1Episode 2060 min

The Greatest Game (1)

""WANTED - Macedonian Art Objects, 17th Century, Contact:Daniel J O'Brien"" With this ad in a Manhatten peoper, O'Brien begins an international hunt for the Viktor Emblem, a ""jewel encrusted treasure of a Balkan Country"", which has been stolen from a shrine, and is being offered by 4 thieves for $500,000, with a fee for O'Brien to handle the negotiations. Altho this two part episode was broadcast in B&W, in 1966, it was edited into a tv-movie in color, ""Too Many Thieves"" (thanks- Classic TV Archive for that tidbit) It also marked the US tv debut of Britt Ecklund, then the wife of Peter Sellers (and later Rod ""the Mod"" Stewart) Ludwig Donath was know for his Broadway performances in the musicals ""She Loves Me"" and ""A Family Affair""
Mar 4, 1966
The Greatest Game (2)
Season 1Episode 2160 min

The Greatest Game (2)

O'Brien's negotiations for the Viktor Emblem get more complicated when the person holding it has his life threatened.
Mar 11, 1966
The Only Game in Town
Season 1Episode 2260 min

The Only Game in Town

Taking the bench as an interim judge on the New York Supreme Court, O'Brien deals with the case of a seaman (Alejandro Rey) accused of murdering a co-worker with a longshoreman's hook. Gene Hackman plays the prosecutor in the case.
Mar 18, 1966

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