Sam Benedict Season 1, Episode 22: Some Fires Die Slowly

Hannigan

When her husband suddenly dies, Patricia Hannigan turns to the family's closest friend, Sam Benedict, for help in settling the estate. One of the survivors is the deceased's playboy brother James.

60 min

A Split Week in San Quentin

60 min

Nor Practice Makes Perfect

60 min

Nothing Equals Nothing

When Sarah Sykes murders her husband, Sam decides her only defense is to plead insanity.

60 min

Tears for a Nobody Doll

60 min

Twenty Aching Years

60 min

Maddon's Folly

60 min

Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells

A young, married, and pregnant Orthodox Jewish woman asks Sam's help to get an Orthodox wedding. She has already had a civil marriage, but because her husband is an agnostic she is unable to get married in a religious ceremony which would please her and her family more. Meanwhile, Hank gets into trouble in his effort to locate the one witness who can help his client, as a debt owed by his client to the witness is mistaken for a bribe.

60 min

Life is a Lie, Love is a Cheat

Attractive Carrie Morton, claiming she has been swindled by the man she loves, hires Sam Benedict to sue him for 25,000 dollars.

60 min

The Bird of Warning

Diana Hyland plays a rich girl who has been arrested for drunk driving. Turns out she is an ex-fiancee of Hank Tabor, Sam Benedict's assistant, played by Richard Rust. He takes her in hand, for old time's sake, and suffers the consequences, though he ends up figuring out what her problem is and it isn't really drinking, it's a chemical imbalance. Nice scenes with those two. Another story involves the guest star George Tobias as a Hungarian who owns an ethnic restaurant. He's 80, married to a 42 year old and they want to divorce, but of course, Sam saves their marriage!

60 min

The View from an Ivory Tower

60 min

Everyone's Playing Polo

60 min

Too Many Strangers

60 min

So Various, So Beautiful

60 min

Where There's a Will

60 min

The Target Over the Hill

60 min

Not Even the Gulls Shall Weep

60 min

The Boiling Point

60 min

Green Room, Grey Morning

60 min

Run Softly, Oh Softly

Sam defends a man accused of swindling an insurance company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, while the daughter of the man Sam's client accuses of being the real thief asks Hank to help her father.

60 min

Sugar and Spice and Everything....

60 min

Image of a Toad

60 min

Seventeen Gypsies and a Sinner Named Charlie

60 min

Accomplice

60 min

Read No Evil

60 min

Of Rusted Cannons and Fallen Sparrows

60 min

Season For Vengeance

60 min