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Sam Benedict

Drama, Legal · 1962

Last aired: S1 E28, Season for Vengeance · 1963-03-30

The story of Sam Benedict, a defense attorney working out of San Francisco, California. Based on the files of criminal attorney Jacob Ehrlich.

Cast

Season 1

E1 Hannigan 1962-09-15 · 60 min When his brother dies, James Hannigan is overcome with grief---at his small share of the estate.
E2 A Split Week in San Quentin 1962-09-22 · 60 min Entertainer Joey Kent was convicted on a narcotics charge mainly because of his obnoxious and uncooperative attitude - and now he wants Sam to help him.
E3 Nor Practice Makes Perfect 1962-09-29 · 60 min Sam Benedict defends Thonis J Jundelin, San Fransisco's one-time greatest lawyer, against a charge of professional misconduct.
E4 Nothing Equals Nothing 1962-10-06 · 60 min San Francisco socialite Sarah Wallace Sykes shocks the city by murdering her husband. Benedict agrees to handle the defense and decides to plead insanity.
E5 Tears for a Nobody Doll 1962-10-13 · 60 min Sam agrees to help Sumiko Matsui, whose in-laws are suing to obtain custody of her unborn child - on the grounds that Sumiko is mentally retarded and unfit to be a mother.
E6 Twenty Aching Years 1962-10-20 · 60 min When a college boy meats death while resisting arrest, hard-nosed police veteran Tony Delgano is threatened with indictment for manslaughter. Sam Benedict and associate Hank Tabor take the case.
E7 Maddon's Folly 1962-10-27 · 60 min Midge Maddon's world crashes when she hears that her father had embezzled nearly $150,000 before his sudden death.
E8 Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells 1962-11-03 · 60 min Sarah Friedman is expecting her first baby, and she's also expecting a visit from her very religious mother. Sarah was married in a civil ceremony, but she begs Sam to help persuade her husband to have a second wedding performed by a rabbi - before Momma arrives.
E9 Life is a Lie, Love is a Cheat 1962-11-10 · 60 min Sam gets involved in a lawsuit between two lovebirds.
E10 The Bird of Warning 1962-11-17 · 60 min Sam's case: a client with a jealous wife. Hank's case: a drunk-driving girl friend.
E11 The View from an Ivory Tower 1962-11-24 · 60 min Lawyer Hartnett Marbury dislikes Sam ---but he respects him enough to hire him as defense attorney in his own murder trial.
E12 Everyone's Playing Polo 1962-12-14 · 60 min When multimillionaire Cyrus Carter puts on a toga and begins meditating in a San Francisco park, his longtime friend, Sam Benedict, must prove Cyrus' sanity and save him millions from greedy relatives.
E13 Too Many Strangers 1962-12-08 · 60 min Sam Benedict defends young Larry Wilcox, who is accused of the murder of one of San Francisco's most respected citizens.
E14 So Various, So Beautiful 1962-12-15 · 60 min A woman's testimony caused an innocent man's execution. If she is found guilty of perjury, she faces the death penalty herself.
E15 Where There's a Will 1962-12-22 · 60 min Sam steps in when an insurance company won't pay off a policy to a condemned murderer.
E16 The Target Over the Hill 1962-12-29 · 60 min The routine adoption hearing for custody of Billy stone is interrupted by his natural mother, who insists that she has overcome her addiction to narcotics and wants the boy back.
E17 Not Even the Gulls Shall Weep 1963-01-05 · 60 min A love from long ago, Ruth Tyler, visits Sam Benedict for the first time in 15 years. She wants him to finalize a divorce from her husband, Robert Tyler, but she's unaware that Sam already has agreed to defend Robert.
E18 The Boiling Point 1963-01-12 · 60 min A police officer out to make things difficult for an old friend: gangster Eddie Jerome.
E19 Green Room, Grey Morning 1963-01-19 · 60 min An attorney nearly dies in an auto accident the night before his client, convicted murderer Mickey Herman, is scheduled for the gas chamber. Sam is called in to find new evidence to get a stay of execution for Herman.
E20 Run Softly, Oh Softly 1963-01-26 · 60 min After a big insurance swindle, executive Mitch Dawlt flees the country with plenty of cash - but without his daughter Laurie. Mitch soon returns and asks Sam for help - but the damage to Laurie is a more serious problem.
E21 Sugar and Spice and Everything.... 1963-02-06 · 60 min When Sam is called in to handle the defense of dancer Amy Vickers, charged with murder, he's busy with another trial - so he sends Hank to fill in for him.
E22 Some Fires Die Slowly 1963-02-16 · 60 min Doug Stover has built up his lamp factory just for his son Bert, but the boy refuses to join the firm. When the factory burns down, the elder Stover is accused of setting the fire to collect the insurance.
E23 Image of a Toad 1963-02-23 · 60 min Convict Vernon Hill has fallen in love - on Alcatraz - with prison psychologist Jan Fielding, who is preparing him for a parole. But Vernon insists he doesn't want to see her once he is released.
E24 Seventeen Gypsies and a Sinner Named Charlie 1963-03-02 · 60 min Jailed on several charges of grand theft, Charlie Dunphie appears to have bilked a lot of money from a lot of charities, for 17 reasons - the 17 children he "adopted".
E25 Accomplice 1963-03-09 · 60 min Sam and lawyer Lewis Wiley agree on the defense for two accused murderers then Wiley makes a secret deal.
E26 Read No Evil 1963-03-16 · 60 min A teacher's job is threatened when he opposes local censorship policies.
E27 Of Rusted Cannons and Fallen Sparrows 1963-03-23 · 60 min John Paul Elcott seeks Sam's legal advice when he decides that his right to speak freely - about his racial prejudice - is being curtailed. At the same time, suspected Communist Nora Hildon asks Hank to defend her.
E28 Season for Vengeance 1963-03-30 · 60 min A woman is accused of murder and doesn't even care to find a lawyer to defend her.

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