As of July 2026, Arrest and Trial Season 1 aired in 1963 with 30 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Arrest and Trial Season 1

1963 30 Episodes Crime · Drama ⭐ 8/10

If you want a crime drama that treats its mystery as more than a puzzle, Arrest and Trial Season 1 is available on streaming right now. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. Its 8/10 TMDB score, built from 4 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Watch Ben Gazzara work — the performance is a masterclass in restraint. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

There is a reason Arrest and Trial Season 1 keeps coming up in conversation. The plotting in Arrest and Trial Season 1 is tight enough that the twists feel earned rather than assembled. Season 1 of Arrest and Trial includes 30 episodes. It aired from September 1963 to April 1964. This season stars Ben Gazzara, Chuck Connors and Roger Perry. Ben Gazzara and Chuck Connors lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1963. What distinguishes the best crime dramas from the rest is whether the character work can carry scenes where the mystery takes a breath — Arrest and Trial Season 1 passes that test consistently. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Viewers who think they have seen every crime drama tend to find Arrest and Trial Season 1 proves them wrong. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Ben Gazzara anchors it, but the writing does the real work. If you are going to commit to one crime drama this month, make it this one.

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🎬 Arrest and Trial Season 1 — Episode Guide

Call It A Lifetime (1)

A truck skids into a motorcycle policeman and kills him. The driver who thinks he'll be blamed for the accident, steals a another car and flees.

Isn't It A Lovely View (2)

A crippled woman’s reluctance to admit that she witnessed a murder from her apartment window leads Anderson to suspect her husband committed the crime to avoid a blackmail payment.

Tears From A Silver Dipper

Caught stealing drugs from a military base, PFC George Valdez becomes the chief suspect in a murder — but race prejudice may be influencing the outcome of his court-martial.

A Shield Is For Hiding Behind

Deke Palmer seems like the perfect 19-year-old college student, But Timmy, his 15-year-old brother, knows different. He knows that each time his brother drops him off at the movie theater, he must be able to tell Deke the plot in great detail, so that Deke will have an alibi for whatever he's really...

My Name is Martin Burnham

A suicidal engineer accidentally kills a co-worker while attempting a leap from a high-rise construction site, and he opts to offer no defense for the crime in the hope of being sent to the gas chamber.

A Flame in the Dark

Anderson is puzzled by 14-year-old Bobby Randolph, who won't accept the fact that his mother was murdered by a sniper. He also wonders why the boy's business-tycoon father tries to do all the talking. What is the father trying to hide.

Whose Little Girl Are You?

A master tool and die craftsman, unbalanced by the loss of his physical dexterity, kills the verbally abusive co-worker who is about to take over his job.

A schoolteacher’s conscience bothers her when the wrong man is arrested for murder — but since she was with a married man when she witnessed the crime, she cannot come forward without ruining her reputation.

Inquest Into A Bleeding Heart

After a little girl is run down by a reckess motorcyclist, a discredited doctor performs emergency surgery — only to find himself on trial for practicing without a license after the girl dies.

The Quality of Justice

Anderson is searching for a child-killer, unaware that the killer is mentally retarded and very unstable.

We May Be Better Strangers

A young hoodlum beats two men nearly to death and also engages in some unusual acts of vandalism. Egan agrees to defend the boy on the charges, but he soon begins to wonder about the boy's strange obsession with a prominent Superior court judge.

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Some Weeks Are All Mondays

Anderson realizes that the daughter of a well-known playwright may have murdered her stepfather.

Run, Little Man, Run

Fred Stukey's wife is found dead at a church bazaar, and Anderson discovers that a known thief named Antsy Jackson was on the scene. Can the piece the puzzle together.

Funny Man With A Monkey

A night club comic is suspected of killing a doctor to get narcotics to fed his hunger and addiction.

Signals From An Ancient Flame

Onward and Upward

A sleazy corporate yes-man inherits the unpleasant task of corpse disposal after his boss murders his mistress.

An Echo of Conscience

Anderson has a hard time accepting that his old friend, a private detective who was thrown off the police force because of his alcoholism, has been driven to murder.

Somewhat Lower Than the Angels

A priest’s faith in the innocence of the woman arrested for killing his sister convinces Egan to take the case.

People In Glass Houses

Two criminals blast their way out of a courthouse.

🎭 Cast of Arrest and Trial Season 1

Ben Gazzara

Chuck Connors

Roger Perry

John Larch

John Kerr

Noah Keen

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