The Trials of O'Brien

- Season 1

(1965)

O'Brien babysits the daughter of a client recently released from prison while he goes to retrieve his long-hidden loot. However, instead of a fortune, the client re-emerges with a murder charge.

O'Brien wins a boxer in a craps game but is less than thrilled when he finds out the young man is a rotten fighter. Then O'Brien's luck completely runs out after his boxer is arrested for murdering a rival.

No one believes Oliver Maxwell, an amiable but convicted confidence trickster, when he uses a familiar swindle to raise money for the release of a prisoner in a foreign jail. But this time the story is true - or is it?

O'Brien's English bookie is charged with the death of an accountant, but the person who can clear him is nowhere to be found.

After discovering that a man is dating his ex-wife, O'Brien delightedly sets him up as a "pigeon" in order to trap a killer.

A woman is accused of murdering her husband and retains O'Brien to defend her.

O'Brien acts as a middleman between a Presbyterian youth center and a strip bar next door both of whom want the other gone. Then a murder complicates the talks.

O'Brien investigates the death of a partner in the Seventh Avenue Dress House where his ex-wife works.

A "heist artist" who is accused of fatally stabbing a dealer of rare violins is defended by O'Brien.

O'Brien becomes tangled up with a dangerous bookie and a dysfunctional family after a young man claims O'Brien is fixing horse races.

Glen Daley Claude Akins arrives from Oklahoma at Port Authority Terminal in New York City. He meets film maker Nick Staphos Alan Alda and agrees to have his life filmed for a week.

A burlesque comedian is involved in murder when his straight man is killed after making advances on the comedian's wife.

Is Judge Vincent becoming senile? He hires O'Brien to prove he isn't.

O'Brien tries to have a will declared invalid before three greedy heirs kill each other in a house that's booby-trapped from cellar to attic.

A foster father, 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.

O'Brien charges that an assistant district attorney failed to prosecute a broker in the death of an accountant.

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

Held as a hostage in a jailbreak, O'Brien is asked to take a prisoner's complaint to the public.

O'Brien suffers a broken leg in a hit-and-run accident. Writer James Partridge, who was with him at the time of the accident, thinks he was the target because of his work for British Intelligence.

O'Brien is blackmailed into helping the Macedonian government negotiate the return of a stolen emblem but which of the thieves claiming they have it is real?

As the thieves start getting killed off one by one, O'Brien becomes the prime suspect. Meanwhile, Mrs O'Brien has a cruise booked and is not going to miss it with her husband or without him.

Taking the bench as an interim judge, O'Brien deals with the case of a seaman accused of murdering a co-worker with a longshoreman's hook. Gene Hackman plays the prosecutor in the case.