Sam Benedict

1. Hannigan

Air Date: 1962-09-15

When 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.

2. A Split Week in San Quentin

Air Date: 1962-09-22

3. Nor Practice Makes Perfect

Air Date: 1962-09-29

4. Nothing Equals Nothing

Air Date: 1962-10-06

When Sarah Sykes murders her husband, Sam decides her only defense is to plead insanity.

5. Tears for a Nobody Doll

Air Date: 1962-10-13

6. Twenty Aching Years

Air Date: 1962-10-20

7. Maddon's Folly

Air Date: 1962-10-27

8. Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells

Air Date: 1962-11-03

A 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.

9. Life is a Lie, Love is a Cheat

Air Date: 1962-11-10

Attractive Carrie Morton, claiming she has been swindled by the man she loves, hires Sam Benedict to sue him for 25,000 dollars.

10. The Bird of Warning

Air Date: 1962-11-17

Diana 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!

11. The View from an Ivory Tower

Air Date: 1962-11-24

12. Everyone's Playing Polo

Air Date: 1962-12-14

13. Too Many Strangers

Air Date: 1962-12-08

14. So Various, So Beautiful

Air Date: 1962-12-15

15. Where There's a Will

Air Date: 1962-12-22

16. The Target Over the Hill

Air Date: 1962-12-29

17. Not Even the Gulls Shall Weep

Air Date: 1963-01-05

18. The Boiling Point

Air Date: 1963-01-12

19. Green Room, Grey Morning

Air Date: 1963-01-19

20. Run Softly, Oh Softly

Air Date: 1963-01-26

Sam 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.

21. Sugar and Spice and Everything....

Air Date: 1963-02-06

22. Some Fires Die Slowly

Air Date: 1963-02-16

Sam defends a man who is accused of arson and insurance fraud.

23. Image of a Toad

Air Date: 1963-02-23

24. Seventeen Gypsies and a Sinner Named Charlie

Air Date: 1963-03-02

25. Accomplice

Air Date: 1963-03-09

26. Read No Evil

Air Date: 1963-03-16

27. Of Rusted Cannons and Fallen Sparrows

Air Date: 1963-03-23

28. Season For Vengeance

Air Date: 1963-03-30