The Trials of O'Brien Season 1

(1965) September - March | # of Episodes : 22

Ratings

6.8

Series Details

Seasons: 1

Total Episodes: 22

Creators: Gene Wang

Networks: CBS

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Sep 18, 1965

Recent Air Date: Mar 18, 1966

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: NR

Website: Link

Production Companies: The O'Brien Company , Filmways Pictures , Mayo Productions

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Main Cast

Peter Falk

Daniel O'Brien

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Joanna Barnes

Katie O'Brien

Age : 91 | Popularity : 49%

David Burns

The Great McGonigle

Age : 69 | Popularity : 22%

Episodes

Episode 1

18 September 1965 - Over Defense is Out

O'Brien represents a client who was charged with murder after being released from prison. Guest star: Vincent Gardenia

Episode 2

25 September 1965 - 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.

Episode 3

02 October 1965 - Notes on a Spanish Prisoner

Eva 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.

Episode 4

09 October 1965 - 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.

Episode 5

16 October 1965 - 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.

Episode 6

23 October 1965 - Goodbye and Keep Cool

A woman (Cloris Leachman) is accused of murdering her husband, and retains O'Brien to defend her. Guest star: Robert Loggia.

Episode 7

30 October 1965 - 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.

Episode 8

06 November 1965 - The Trouble with Archie

O'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.

Episode 9

13 November 1965 - 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.

Episode 10

20 November 1965 - 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.

Episode 11

27 November 1965 - 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.

Episode 12

03 December 1965 - 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.

Episode 13

10 December 1965 - 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.

Episode 14

17 December 1965 - 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.

Episode 15

07 January 1966 - 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.

Episode 16

14 January 1966 - 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.

Episode 17

21 January 1966 - A Horse Called Destiny

O'Brien represents a spiritualist in the murder of a wealthy client whose death he has predicted.

Episode 18

28 January 1966 - 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.

Episode 19

04 February 1966 - 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)

Episode 20

04 March 1966 - 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""

Episode 21

11 March 1966 - The Greatest Game (2)

O'Brien's negotiations for the Viktor Emblem get more complicated when the person holding it has his life threatened.

Episode 22

18 March 1966 - 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.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Richard Donner
Production	Executive Producer	Richard Alan Simmons
	Producer	Gene Wang
Sound	Music	Sid Ramin
Camera	Director of Photography	Felix Trimboli
Writing	Screenplay	Gene Wang
	Creative Producer	Gene Wang
Department	Role	Name

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