Season 1
22 episodes · Sep 18, 1965
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- S1E1
Over Defense is Out
Sep 18, 196548mO'Brien represents a client who was charged with murder after being released from prison. Guest star: Vincent Gardenia
- S1E2
Bargain Day on the Street of Regret
Sep 25, 196548mO'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.
- S1E3
Notes on a Spanish Prisoner
Oct 2, 196548mEva Grimaldi (Mary Tahmin) cons the con: she borrows $2500 from her boyfriend Ollie Maxwell (Buddy Hackett) to ransom her millionaire father, who is being held prisoner in Latin America.
- S1E4
Never Bet on Anything That Talks
Oct 9, 196548mO'Brien's English bookie is charged in the death of an accountant, but the person who can clear him is nowhere to be found.
- S1E5
What Can Go Wrong
Oct 16, 196548mAfter 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.
- S1E6
Goodbye and Keep Cool
Oct 23, 196548mA woman (Cloris Leachman) is accused of murdering her husband, and retains O'Brien to defend her. Guest star: Robert Loggia.
S1E7A Gaggle of Girls
Oct 30, 196548mO'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.
- S1E8
The Trouble with Archie
Nov 6, 196548mO'Brien investigates the death of a partner in the Seventh Avenue Dress House where his ex-wife works. Guest stars: Lou Jacobi, Theodore Bikel, Simon Oakland and Alice Ghostley.
- S1E9
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
Nov 13, 196548mA "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.
- S1E10
Charlie Has All the Luck
Nov 20, 196548mWhile 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.
- S1E11
Picture Me a Murder
Nov 27, 196548mO'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.
- S1E12
Dead End on Flugel Street
Dec 3, 196548mA burlesque comedian (Milton Berle) is involved in murder when his straight man is killed after making advances on the comedian's wife.
- S1E13
No Justice for the Judge
Dec 10, 196548mAn 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.
- S1E14
Leave It to Me
Dec 17, 196548mO'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.
- S1E15
Alarums and Excursions
Jan 7, 196648mA 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.
- S1E16
The 10-Foot, 6-Inch Pole
Jan 14, 196648mAccountant 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.
- S1E17
A Horse Called Destiny
Jan 21, 196648mO'Brien represents a spiritualist in the murder of a wealthy client whose death he has predicted.
- S1E18
The Blue Steel Suite
Jan 28, 196648mProtesting 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.
- S1E19
The Partridge Papers
Feb 4, 196648mJames 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)
- S1E20
The Greatest Game (1)
Mar 4, 196648m""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""
- S1E21
The Greatest Game (2)
Mar 11, 196648mO'Brien's negotiations for the Viktor Emblem get more complicated when the person holding it has his life threatened.
- S1E22
The Only Game in Town
Mar 18, 196648mTaking 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.