The Trials of O'Brien(1965)
DramaComedy
First Air Date: 1965-09-18
Average Runtime: 48m
Rating: 7.0
Votes: 5
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 22
The Trials of O'Brien is a 1965 television series starring Peter Falk as a sordid Shakespeare-quoting lawyer and featuring Elaine Stritch as his secretary and Joanna Barnes as his ex-wife. The series ran for only 22 episodes. Among its guest stars: Milton Berle, Robert Blake, David Carradine, Faye Dunaway, Britt Ekland, Tammy Grimes, Buddy Hackett, Gene Hackman, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Cloris Leachman, Roger Moore, Rita Moreno, Estelle Parsons, Joanna Pettet, Brock Peters, Tony Roberts and Martin Sheen. Falk often said that he actually liked this financially unsuccessful series much better than his later smash-hit Columbo.
Keywords
lawyer
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 22E01
Over Defense is Out
Air Date: 1965-09-18
O'Brien represents a client who was charged with murder after being released from prison. Guest star: Vincent Gardenia
E02
Bargain Day on the Street of Regret
Air Date: 1965-09-25
O'Brien wins the contract of boxer Joe Rooney (Robert Blake) in a dice game, but the pugnacious Rooney is in jail for...
E03
Notes on a Spanish Prisoner
Air Date: 1965-10-02
Eva Grimaldi (Mary Tahmin) cons the con: she borrows $2500 from her boyfriend Ollie Maxwell (Buddy Hackett) to ranso...
E04
Never Bet on Anything That Talks
Air Date: 1965-10-09
O'Brien's English bookie is charged in the death of an accountant, but the person who can clear him is nowhere to be ...
E05
What Can Go Wrong
Air Date: 1965-10-16
After discovering that a man is dating his ex-wife (Joanna Barnes), O'Brien delightedly sets him up as a "pigeon" in ...
E06
Goodbye and Keep Cool
Air Date: 1965-10-23
A woman (Cloris Leachman) is accused of murdering her husband, and retains O'Brien to defend her. Guest star: Robert ...
E07
A Gaggle of Girls
Air Date: 1965-10-30
O'Brien is retained by a Mother Superior in order to persuade the owner of an adjoining cafe to permit St. Anthony's ...
E08
The Trouble with Archie
Air Date: 1965-11-06
O'Brien investigates the death of a partner in the Seventh Avenue Dress House where his ex-wife works. Guest stars: L...
E09
How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
Air Date: 1965-11-13
A "heist artist" who is accused of fatally stabbing a dealer of rare violins is defended by O'Brien. Guest stars: Nor...
E10
Charlie Has All the Luck
Air Date: 1965-11-20
While being bugged by his ex-wife to sign the lease on her luxurious apartment, O'Brien must defend a client involved...
E11
Picture Me a Murder
Air Date: 1965-11-27
O'Brien represents a movie producer (Alan Alda) who was charged with resisting arrest while filming an "underground" ...
E12
Dead End on Flugel Street
Air Date: 1965-12-03
A burlesque comedian (Milton Berle) is involved in murder when his straight man is killed after making advances on th...
E13
No Justice for the Judge
Air Date: 1965-12-10
An eccentric judge (Burgess Meredith) engages O'Brien to represent him on charges of mental disability that could rem...
E14
Leave It to Me
Air Date: 1965-12-17
O'Brien tries to have a will declared invalid before three greedy heirs (Angela Lansbury, George Rose and Thayer Davi...
E15
Alarums and Excursions
Air Date: 1966-01-07
A foster father (John McGiver), who is content to keep collecting welfare checks, hires O'Brien to keep seven childre...
E16
The 10-Foot, 6-Inch Pole
Air Date: 1966-01-14
Accountant Jerry Quinlan was an apparent suicide, until it is discovered that he had questions and suspicions about h...
E17
A Horse Called Destiny
Air Date: 1966-01-21
O'Brien represents a spiritualist in the murder of a wealthy client whose death he has predicted.
E18
The Blue Steel Suite
Air Date: 1966-01-28
Protesting their living conditions, the prisoners of the state prison's isolation cell block have taken 3 hostages wh...
E19
The Partridge Papers
Air Date: 1966-02-04
James Partridge, who once worked for British Intelligence, believes he was the target of a hit and run driver who was...
E20
The Greatest Game (1)
Air Date: 1966-03-04
""WANTED - Macedonian Art Objects, 17th Century, Contact:Daniel J O'Brien"" With this ad in a Manhatten peoper, O'B...
E21
The Greatest Game (2)
Air Date: 1966-03-11
O'Brien's negotiations for the Viktor Emblem get more complicated when the person holding it has his life threatened.
E22
The Only Game in Town
Air Date: 1966-03-18
Taking the bench as an interim judge on the New York Supreme Court, O'Brien deals with the case of a seaman (Alejandr...
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