Sam Benedict (1962)
Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman. Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jacob W. "Jake" Erlich, who served as technical consultant for the series.
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Episode 1 - Hannigan
Release Date: 1962-09-15When her husband suddenly dies, Patricia Hannigan turns to the family's closest friend, Sam Benedict, for help in settling the estate. One of the survivors is the deceased's playboy brother James.
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Episode 2 - A Split Week in San Quentin
Release Date: 1962-09-22 -
Episode 3 - Nor Practice Makes Perfect
Release Date: 1962-09-29 -
Episode 4 - Nothing Equals Nothing
Release Date: 1962-10-06When Sarah Sykes murders her husband, Sam decides her only defense is to plead insanity.
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Episode 5 - Tears for a Nobody Doll
Release Date: 1962-10-13 -
Episode 6 - Twenty Aching Years
Release Date: 1962-10-20 -
Episode 7 - Maddon's Folly
Release Date: 1962-10-27 -
Episode 8 - Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells
Release Date: 1962-11-03A young, married, and pregnant Orthodox Jewish woman asks Sam's help to get an Orthodox wedding. She has already had a civil marriage, but because her husband is an agnostic she is unable to get married in a religious ceremony which would please her and her family more. Meanwhile, Hank gets into trouble in his effort to locate the one witness who can help his client, as a debt owed by his client to the witness is mistaken for a bribe.
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Episode 9 - Life is a Lie, Love is a Cheat
Release Date: 1962-11-10Attractive Carrie Morton, claiming she has been swindled by the man she loves, hires Sam Benedict to sue him for 25,000 dollars.
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Episode 10 - The Bird of Warning
Release Date: 1962-11-17Diana Hyland plays a rich girl who has been arrested for drunk driving. Turns out she is an ex-fiancee of Hank Tabor, Sam Benedict's assistant, played by Richard Rust. He takes her in hand, for old time's sake, and suffers the consequences, though he ends up figuring out what her problem is and it isn't really drinking, it's a chemical imbalance. Nice scenes with those two. Another story involves the guest star George Tobias as a Hungarian who owns an ethnic restaurant. He's 80, married to a 42 year old and they want to divorce, but of course, Sam saves their marriage!
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Episode 11 - The View from an Ivory Tower
Release Date: 1962-11-24 -
Episode 12 - Everyone's Playing Polo
Release Date: 1962-12-14 -
Episode 13 - Too Many Strangers
Release Date: 1962-12-08 -
Episode 14 - So Various, So Beautiful
Release Date: 1962-12-15 -
Episode 15 - Where There's a Will
Release Date: 1962-12-22 -
Episode 16 - The Target Over the Hill
Release Date: 1962-12-29 -
Episode 17 - Not Even the Gulls Shall Weep
Release Date: 1963-01-05 -
Episode 18 - The Boiling Point
Release Date: 1963-01-12 -
Episode 19 - Green Room, Grey Morning
Release Date: 1963-01-19 -
Episode 20 - Run Softly, Oh Softly
Release Date: 1963-01-26Sam defends a man accused of swindling an insurance company out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, while the daughter of the man Sam's client accuses of being the real thief asks Hank to help her father.
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Episode 21 - Sugar and Spice and Everything....
Release Date: 1963-02-06 -
Episode 22 - Some Fires Die Slowly
Release Date: 1963-02-16Sam defends a man who is accused of arson and insurance fraud.
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Episode 23 - Image of a Toad
Release Date: 1963-02-23 -
Episode 24 - Seventeen Gypsies and a Sinner Named Charlie
Release Date: 1963-03-02 -
Episode 25 - Accomplice
Release Date: 1963-03-09 -
Episode 26 - Read No Evil
Release Date: 1963-03-16 -
Episode 27 - Of Rusted Cannons and Fallen Sparrows
Release Date: 1963-03-23 -
Episode 28 - Season For Vengeance
Release Date: 1963-03-30