Arrest and Trial Season 1, Episode 4: A Shield Is For Hiding Behind

Call It A Lifetime (1)

A truck skids into a motorcycle policeman and kills him. The driver who thinks he'll be blamed for the accident, steals a another car and flees.

90 min

Isn't It A Lovely View (2)

A crippled woman’s reluctance to admit that she witnessed a murder from her apartment window leads Anderson to suspect her husband committed the crime to avoid a blackmail payment.

90 min

Tears From A Silver Dipper

Caught stealing drugs from a military base, PFC George Valdez becomes the chief suspect in a murder — but race prejudice may be influencing the outcome of his court-martial.

90 min

My Name is Martin Burnham

A suicidal engineer accidentally kills a co-worker while attempting a leap from a high-rise construction site, and he opts to offer no defense for the crime in the hope of being sent to the gas chamber.

90 min

A Flame in the Dark

Anderson is puzzled by 14-year-old Bobby Randolph, who won't accept the fact that his mother was murdered by a sniper. He also wonders why the boy's business-tycoon father tries to do all the talking. What is the father trying to hide.

90 min

Whose Little Girl Are You?

A master tool and die craftsman, unbalanced by the loss of his physical dexterity, kills the verbally abusive co-worker who is about to take over his job.

90 min

The Witnesses

A schoolteacher’s conscience bothers her when the wrong man is arrested for murder — but since she was with a married man when she witnessed the crime, she cannot come forward without ruining her reputation.

90 min

Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart

After a little girl is run down by a reckess motorcyclist, a discredited doctor performs emergency surgery — only to find himself on trial for practicing without a license after the girl dies.

90 min

The Quality of Justice

Anderson is searching for a child-killer, unaware that the killer is mentally retarded and very unstable.

90 min

We May Be Better Strangers

A young hoodlum beats two men nearly to death and also engages in some unusual acts of vandalism. Egan agrees to defend the boy on the charges, but he soon begins to wonder about the boy's strange obsession with a prominent Superior court judge.

90 min

Journey Into Darkness

Journey Into Darkness is an episode of the TV program Arrest and Trial.

90 min

Some Weeks Are All Mondays

Anderson realizes that the daughter of a well-known playwright may have murdered her stepfather.

90 min

Run, Little Man, Run

Fred Stukey's wife is found dead at a church bazaar, and Anderson discovers that a known thief named Antsy Jackson was on the scene. Can the piece the puzzle together.

90 min

Funny Man With A Monkey

A night club comic is suspected of killing a doctor to get narcotics to fed his hunger and addiction.

90 min

Signals From An Ancient Flame

90 min

Onward and Upward

A sleazy corporate yes-man inherits the unpleasant task of corpse disposal after his boss murders his mistress.

90 min

An Echo of Conscience

Anderson has a hard time accepting that his old friend, a private detective who was thrown off the police force because of his alcoholism, has been driven to murder.

90 min

Somewhat Lower Than the Angels

A priest’s faith in the innocence of the woman arrested for killing his sister convinces Egan to take the case.

90 min

People In Glass Houses

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

90 min

The Best There Is (1)

Egan is too busy to handle the defense of a young Mexican wrongly accused of murder, so he hands the case off to his aging mentor — but the latter’s senility may obstruct the defendant’s chance at a fair trial.

90 min

A Roll of the Dice (2)

An ambitious young hustler, falling victim to his gambling addiction, embezzles a large sum from his employer and goes on a spree in Las Vegas.

90 min

The Black Flower

Back home on parole, Rick Tobin accuses his wife of being friendly with the man he feels is responsible for his conviction and temper start to flare.

90 min

A Circle of Strangers

Alex and Helen want to marry despite their feuding Hungarian-born families’ objections, but when shy Alex accidentally kills a man their love becomes as star-crossed as Romeo and Juliet’s.

90 min

Modus Operandi

Lois Janeway insists that her parolee husband has gone straight, but Anderson has a hard time believing that another criminal has adopted Janeway’s highly unusual method of robbery — the use of a vicious trained dog to frighten witnesses during the holdup..

90 min

Tigers Are For Jungles

A hit man decides to retire when he falls in love, but the machinations of his ambitious young accomplice force him to pick up his gun again.

90 min

The Revenge of the Worm

Anderson advises a truck driver to be practical and pay the “protection” money that a racketeer is extorting from him, but the man’s pride compels him to respond with violence instead.

90 min

He Ran For His Life

Egan investigates the ex-wife of an unstable man arrested for kidnapping his own son and holding the police at bay with a gun.

90 min

Those Whose Love Has Made (1)

Two of law professor Marcus Cain’s students hire a man to murder their teacher, but Cain turns the tables and kills the killer — only he can’t confess and claim self-defense, because he was leaving his mistress’ apartment at the time.

90 min

Birds of a Feather (2)

A society girl helps to swindle a mob-connected Texas businessman on a shady land deal, but when Anderson arrests her she refuses to lead him to the sleazy gigolo who put her up to the con.

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