East Side/West Side

- Season 1

(1963)

A prostitute battles the parents of her baby's father--a derelict--for custody of the child.

Brock tries to help a young man when his girlfriend's father tries to break up their relationship by dragging the youngster into court.

Brock tries to help a Korean War veteran suffering from post-traumatic distress.

A wealthy young socialite, sentenced to community service due to a string of unpaid parking tickets, is assigned to do paperwork in Neil's office. She starts to lose some of her "superior" attitude when some of the neighborhood girls start coming to her for tips on how to keep their boyfriends.

Brock and a committed teacher try to convince young Puerto Rican dropouts to go back to school by coming up with a progressive education program.

The struggles of a couple trying to cope with an adult son who is mentally retarded.

A young African-American couple battle economic and social woes. Joe can only find menial jobs and to make ends meet Ruth works in a cheap bar. Then tragedy strikes their child.

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Brock is asked by the wife of a cab driver to intervene- he's an irresponsible gambling addict who found and kept some money left in his taxi by a fare. He's persuaded to return it but is suspended. Facing bills and a loan shark, he immediately goes out to find a fast buck game to make up for the loss.

An upwardly mobile black family moves into a previously all-white neighborhood in suburban Long Island, New York. Chuck and Anne Severson, who are Neil's friends, at first welcome them to the neighborhood, even though some of their friends and neighbors don't want the black family there. However, when local real estate agents start "blockbusting"--the practice of scaring white homeowners into selling their homes for less than they're worth by raising the prospect of more blacks moving into the neighborhood and lowering property values, then selling the homes at vastly...

A Jewish businessman who can't put up with the vapid suburban life anymore goes back to the city tenement he grew up in, only to find that it's now occupied by a young black family.

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Neil's office tries to help a lonely old woman whose house is scheduled to be demolished by the city.

A woman who's on welfare can't support her family with the money she gets, so she takes a job to earn more money. When the welfare department finds out about it, she's thrown in jail.

Brock comes to the aid of a group of "beatniks" in Greenwich Village who are trying to fight a crooked political boss and find themselves at odds with their Italian neighbors.

Two homeless people have a falling out one of them begins binge drinking wood alcohol.

A killer in a teenage street gang is arrested and starts on his way through the juvenile justice system.

An aging construction worker becomes resentful when he's forced into retirement before he's ready.

After her mother's boyfriend abuses her, a teenager runs away from home and tries to survive on the streets.

Neil tries to help a wheelchair-bound man who focuses all of his dreams on walking again.

Neil comes into conflict with a numbers runner who preys on his neighborhoods poor gamblers.

Neil must decide whether he can help more people performing community service work or as a legislative consultant to a U.S. Congressman.

An old-time union leader is eager to go against a corporate executive he has battled in the past, but it seems that he'd rather fight than come to a compromise that would benefit all sides.

Neil considers quitting when Congressman Hanson doesn't follow through on promises made during a television show.

Brock and Hanson lobby for their proposed legislation which would stiffen penalties for contracting fraud, but their efforts are opposed by well-placed manufacturers with plenty of cash.

Brock writes a long series of articles about the plight of the urban poor, but no newspaper or magazine will publish them.