Justice Season 1, Episode 11: The Desperate One

1

The Baker's Sons

A father persuades his younger son to go to jail for the older worthless son. From files of the Legal Aid Society.

30 min

2

Keith's Case

A war veteran is reported dead and then suddenly reappears to find his wife remarried.

30 min

3

Run from Honor

The story of a school bus driver who is to be honored by the community with a safe driving award. The driver Ed Simmons, however, views the imminent ceremonies with dread, fearful the consequent personal publicity will throw the limelight on his guilty past.

30 min

4

Positive Identification

A paroled orphan is floundering in a struggle to find himself and go straight.

30 min

5

The Quiet Life

An immigrant laborer keeps silent about sub-standard cement being used on a new building because his crooked boss knows the laborer's guilty past.

30 min

6

Hit and Run

Harry Larner (E.G. Marshall) is involved in a hot and run accident with a boy on a bike.

30 min

7

An Eye for an Eye

An Army sergeant is being court-martialed on charges of betraying his comrades to the enemy while they were prisoners of war in Korea.

30 min

8

In the Deep Night

A woman stands trial accused of stabbing her husband. Two witnesses to the crime are brought in and one is found to be withholding information that would incriminate the real killer.

30 min

9

The Eight Alien Boys

An aging man reveres the memory of his seven ancestors who were killed in the battle of 1776. The plaque he erected on the hallowed ground is endangered by a proposed road construction and he launches a battle to prevent its destruction.

30 min

10

The Greedy Man

A poor man asks the Legal Aid Society to help him get money from a wealthy, but incompetent relative.

30 min

11

The Desperate One

A boy is a pawn in the divorce of his bitter parents.

30 min

12

The Spinster

An old maid inherits $50,000 and finds herself irresistibly drawn to a handsome suitor.

30 min

13

Call Me Guilty

A lonely old eccentric earns his livelihood by carving toys. Plagued by an unquenchable desire to be noticed, he is constantly showing up at the police station to confess to unsolved crimes which he has not committed.

30 min

14

The Scandal That Rocked the Town

A basketball player worries that gamblers are causing his turn of bad luck on the court.

30 min

15

Murder at Red Oaks

A man is accused of murder due to his past record and circumstantial evidence.

30 min

16

Ride with Terror

A paroled convict is on his way home from prison, hitch-hikes a ride and gets caught up with a murderer on the lam.

30 min

17

A Matter of Life and Death

A salesman is desperate to receive a certain account. The buyer is stricken with a heart attack and the salesman succumbs to temptation and robs an open safe.

30 min

18

The Blackmailer

An illegal immigrant from Czechoslovakia is being blackmailed.

30 min

19

The Coney Island Mystery

A Coney Island barker wants to take his girl out of the tinsel atmosphere but is suspected of murder before he himself can get away.

30 min

20

Man on the Hunt

A man is faced with the temptation of easy money but armed robbery is not what he wants.

30 min

21

The Fugitive

A boy is provided an alibi for a market robbery by his mother but finds the bottom falling out when his girlfriend refuses to be a party to the lie.

30 min

22

The Quiet Prisoner

A man innocent of a crime decides to keep it to himself in fear for his family.

30 min

23

The Crisis

A teenage boy steals a car and a conflict develops between the owners of the car when the man wants to press charges and his wife doesn't.

30 min

24

The Deadly Silence

An eyewitness to a crime is afraid to give any information to the police. Because of her reticence, an innocent man faces conviction for a crime he did not commit.

30 min

25

Belmont Prison Break

A lawyer risks his life and reputation for his client.

30 min