Sam Benedict (Season 1)

Hannigan (Episode 1)

Air date: 1962-09-15

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

A Split Week in San Quentin (Episode 2)

Air date: 1962-09-22

Runtime: 60 min

Nor Practice Makes Perfect (Episode 3)

Air date: 1962-09-29

Runtime: 60 min

Nothing Equals Nothing (Episode 4)

Air date: 1962-10-06

Runtime: 60 min

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

Tears for a Nobody Doll (Episode 5)

Air date: 1962-10-13

Runtime: 60 min

Twenty Aching Years (Episode 6)

Air date: 1962-10-20

Runtime: 60 min

Maddon's Folly (Episode 7)

Air date: 1962-10-27

Runtime: 60 min

Hear the Mellow Wedding Bells (Episode 8)

Air date: 1962-11-03

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Life is a Lie, Love is a Cheat (Episode 9)

Writer: George Eckstein

Air date: 1962-11-10

Runtime: 60 min

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

The Bird of Warning (Episode 10)

Air date: 1962-11-17

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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!

The View from an Ivory Tower (Episode 11)

Air date: 1962-11-24

Runtime: 60 min

Everyone's Playing Polo (Episode 12)

Air date: 1962-12-14

Runtime: 60 min

Too Many Strangers (Episode 13)

Air date: 1962-12-08

Runtime: 60 min

So Various, So Beautiful (Episode 14)

Air date: 1962-12-15

Runtime: 60 min

Where There's a Will (Episode 15)

Air date: 1962-12-22

Runtime: 60 min

The Target Over the Hill (Episode 16)

Air date: 1962-12-29

Runtime: 60 min

Not Even the Gulls Shall Weep (Episode 17)

Air date: 1963-01-05

Runtime: 60 min

The Boiling Point (Episode 18)

Air date: 1963-01-12

Runtime: 60 min

Green Room, Grey Morning (Episode 19)

Air date: 1963-01-19

Runtime: 60 min

Run Softly, Oh Softly (Episode 20)

Air date: 1963-01-26

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Sugar and Spice and Everything.... (Episode 21)

Air date: 1963-02-06

Runtime: 60 min

Some Fires Die Slowly (Episode 22)

Air date: 1963-02-16

Runtime: 60 min

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

Image of a Toad (Episode 23)

Air date: 1963-02-23

Runtime: 60 min

Seventeen Gypsies and a Sinner Named Charlie (Episode 24)

Air date: 1963-03-02

Runtime: 60 min

Accomplice (Episode 25)

Air date: 1963-03-09

Runtime: 60 min

Read No Evil (Episode 26)

Air date: 1963-03-16

Runtime: 60 min

Of Rusted Cannons and Fallen Sparrows (Episode 27)

Air date: 1963-03-23

Runtime: 60 min

Season For Vengeance (Episode 28)

Writer: Franklin Barton

Air date: 1963-03-30

Runtime: 60 min