Arrest and Trial

Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama[1][2] series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 pm Eastern.

This article is about the 1963 ABC TV program. For the 2000 syndicated TV program, see Arrest & Trial.
Arrest and Trial
Chuck Connors as John Egan and guest star Joseph Schildkraut as his client
GenreCrime/legal drama
StarringBen Gazzara
Roger Perry
Chuck Connors
John Larch
Theme music composerBronisław Kaper
ComposerFranz Waxman
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes30
Production
Executive producerFrank P. Rosenberg
ProducersArthur H. Nadel
Frank P. Rosenberg
Charles Russell
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time90 mins.
Production companyUniversal Television
DistributorNBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original networkABC
Picture formatBlack-and-white
Audio formatMonaural
Original releaseSeptember 15, 1963 (1963-09-15) –
September 6, 1964 (1964-09-06)
Chuck Connors and guest star Broderick Crawford (1963)

Overview

The majority of episodes consists of two segments. Set in Los Angeles, the first part ("The Arrest") followed Detective Sergeants Nick Anderson (Ben Gazzara) and Dan Kirby (Roger Perry) of the Los Angeles Police Department as they tracked down and captured a criminal. The apprehended suspect was then defended in the second part ("The Trial") by criminal attorney John Egan (Chuck Connors), who was often up against Deputy District Attorney Jerry Miller (John Larch) and his assistant, Barry Pine (John Kerr, who later became an actual lawyer).

Gazzara agreed to play the role of Anderson only after extracting a promise from the producer that scripts would avoid stereotypical depictions of police officers.

In a 1963 TV Guide interview, Gazzara described his portrayal of Anderson: "I'm supposed to be a thinking man's cop. I'm a serious student of human behavior, more concerned with what creates the criminal than how to punish him. In other words, I'm not the kind of cop who asks, 'Where were you the night of April 13th?' It's my job to show that there is room for passion and intellectualism and personal display even within a policeman."

Arrest and Trial debuted on September 15, 1963. Its last telecast was on April 19, 1964. On April 24, 1964, it became the first American import to be broadcast on the UK's BBC2.

The same premise was adopted decades later by a more financially successful series with the earliest episodes of Law & Order.

Cast

Episodes
No. Title Directed by Written by Original air date
1"Call It a Lifetime"TBATBASeptember 15, 1963 (1963-09-15)
2"Isn't It a Lovely View"TBATBASeptember 22, 1963 (1963-09-22)
3"Tears from a Silver Dipper"TBATBASeptember 29, 1963 (1963-09-29)
4"A Shield is for Hiding Behind"TBATBAOctober 6, 1963 (1963-10-06)
5"My Name is Martin Burnham"TBATBAOctober 13, 1963 (1963-10-13)
6"A Flame in the Dark"TBATBAOctober 20, 1963 (1963-10-20)
7"Whose Little Girl Are You?"TBATBAOctober 27, 1963 (1963-10-27)
8"The Witnesses"TBATBANovember 3, 1963 (1963-11-03)
9"Inquest Into a Bleeding Heart"TBATBANovember 10, 1963 (1963-11-10)
10"The Quality of Justice"TBATBANovember 17, 1963 (1963-11-17)
11"We May Be Better Strangers"TBATBADecember 1, 1963 (1963-12-01)
12"Journey into Darkness"TBATBADecember 8, 1963 (1963-12-08)
13"Some Weeks Are All Mondays"TBATBADecember 15, 1963 (1963-12-15)
14"Run, Little Man, Run"TBATBADecember 22, 1963 (1963-12-22)
15"Funny Man with a Monkey"Ralph SenenskyJerome RossJanuary 5, 1964 (1964-01-05)
16"Signals of an Ancient Flame"TBATBAJanuary 12, 1964 (1964-01-12)
17"Onward and Upward"Herman HoffmanMark RodgersJanuary 19, 1964 (1964-01-19)
18"An Echo of Conscience"TBATBAJanuary 26, 1964 (1964-01-26)
19"Somewhat Lower Than the Angels"TBATBAFebruary 2, 1964 (1964-02-02)
20"People in Glass Houses"TBATBAFebruary 9, 1964 (1964-02-09)
21"The Best There Is"TBATBAFebruary 16, 1964 (1964-02-16)
22"A Roll of the Dice"TBATBAFebruary 23, 1964 (1964-02-23)
23"The Black Flower"TBATBAMarch 1, 1964 (1964-03-01)
24"A Circle of Strangers"TBATBAMarch 8, 1964 (1964-03-08)
25"Modus Operandi"TBATBAMarch 15, 1964 (1964-03-15)
26"Tigers Are for Jungles"TBATBAMarch 22, 1964 (1964-03-22)
27"The Revenge of the Worm"TBATBAMarch 29, 1964 (1964-03-29)
28"He Ran for His Life"TBATBAApril 5, 1964 (1964-04-05)
29"Those Which Love Has Made"TBATBAApril 12, 1964 (1964-04-12)
30"Birds of a Feather"TBATBAApril 19, 1964 (1964-04-19)

Guest stars

Awards

Arrest and Trial earned four Emmy nominations in 1964. Two were for Martine Bartlett and Anjanette Comer for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress, one was for Roddy McDowall for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor, and the other was for Danny Landres, Milton Shifman and Richard Wray for Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Television.[3]

Home media

On November 22, 2011, Timeless Media Group released Arrest and Trial- The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1. The 10-disc set features all 30 episodes of the series.[4]

See also
  • Dragnet (1951–59) – NBC drama series (produced by Jack Webb) that followed the Arrest and Trial format.
  • The D.A. (1971–72) – short-lived NBC drama series (produced by Jack Webb) that followed the Arrest and Trial format, and is also owned by NBC Universal.
  • Law & Order (1990–2010) – NBC drama series (produced by Dick Wolf) that also followed the Arrest and Trial format, and is also owned by NBC Universal.
  • Arrest & Trial (2000) – syndicated docudrama series also produced by Wolf

References
  • Durslag, Melvin. (1963, October 12–18). The Egghead Flatfoot. TV Guide, pp. 8–11.

Footnotes
  1. Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2010). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present (9 ed.). Random House Digital, Inc. p. 66. ISBN 0-307-48315-0.
  2. Berard, Jeanette M.; Englund, Klaudia (2009). Television Series and Specials Scripts, 1946-1992: A Catalog of the American Radio Archives Collection. McFarland. p. 17. ISBN 0-786-45437-7.
  3. "Emmy Nominations 1964". www.emmys.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-10. Retrieved 2011-10-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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