Sam Benedict - Season 1
1 - Hannigan
Air Date: September 15, 1962
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: September 22, 1962
3 - Nor Practice Makes Perfect
Air Date: September 29, 1962
4 - Nothing Equals Nothing
Air Date: October 6, 1962
When Sarah Sykes murders her husband, Sam decides her only defense is to plead insanity.
5 - Tears for a Nobody Doll
Air Date: October 13, 1962
6 - Twenty Aching Years
Air Date: October 20, 1962
7 - Maddon's Folly
Air Date: October 27, 1962
8 - Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells
Air Date: November 3, 1962
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: November 10, 1962
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: November 17, 1962
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: November 24, 1962
12 - Everyone's Playing Polo
Air Date: December 14, 1962
13 - Too Many Strangers
Air Date: December 8, 1962
14 - So Various, So Beautiful
Air Date: December 15, 1962
15 - Where There's a Will
Air Date: December 22, 1962
16 - The Target Over the Hill
Air Date: December 29, 1962
17 - Not Even the Gulls Shall Weep
Air Date: January 5, 1963
18 - The Boiling Point
Air Date: January 12, 1963
19 - Green Room, Grey Morning
Air Date: January 19, 1963
20 - Run Softly, Oh Softly
Air Date: January 26, 1963
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: February 6, 1963
22 - Some Fires Die Slowly
Air Date: February 16, 1963
Sam defends a man who is accused of arson and insurance fraud.
23 - Image of a Toad
Air Date: February 23, 1963
24 - Seventeen Gypsies and a Sinner Named Charlie
Air Date: March 2, 1963
25 - Accomplice
Air Date: March 9, 1963
26 - Read No Evil
Air Date: March 16, 1963
27 - Of Rusted Cannons and Fallen Sparrows
Air Date: March 23, 1963
28 - Season For Vengeance
Air Date: March 30, 1963