Season 1
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1964
Impressive opener of a series involving life in a state legislature, where voting is done by buttons and all talk revolves around the passage of a bill. Tonight, an earnest minority leader is forced to investigate a respected leader. The plot has its dramatic moments, but the main interest lies in the workings of the state body itself.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1964
Representative Slattery (Richard Crenna) goes to the aid of an ex-GI (Tommy Sands) who had defected to the Viet Cong in Vietnam. A resident of Slattery's district, the shattered youth returns home to find that he is no longer a citizen.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1964
Joan Blackman has a secret that may destroy her father's life. Slattery persuades an educator to stand for reappointment as state board of education president despite the threat of a smear.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1964
Ed Wynn, as spry old Ezra Tallicott, enlists the aid of State Representative Slattery. Earnest hero Slattery fights against closing a home for the aged.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1964
State representative Slattery (Richard Crenna) is crusading in a different direction. In an obvious effort to show a more romantic side to Slattery, you are to believe he is capable of being sidetracked by shapely lobbyist Sally Kellerman, one of "those Utopian reformers."
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1964
Hero Slattery has a hard time convincing a high-minded representative that compromise isn't a dirty word but one of the basic laws of government. The plot is believable and guest Ricardo Montalban is fine as the idealistic Latin.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1964
A study of a young couple who have adopted a Korean war orphan and who are faced with the state taking the baby away from them.
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1964
Best episode so far from this surprisingly good series. A Representative and his overly ambitious wife, eager for Washington, D. C dip low into the bucket for a sensational campaign issue, and look to help from a muck-raking broadcaster. Slattery fights the couple all the way. A good script is enhanced by two good performances by jack Warden and Georgann Johnson.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1964
A scientist turns down a government hardware contract to save his company and Slattery jumps in the middle.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 23, 1964
Bribery rears its ugly head in the legislature along with hand-wringing, emotional scenes. Slattery finds a fellow Representative suddenly switching sides on a tax bill and smells a rat.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1964
A pertinent, well handled drama on sex education in school, as hero Slattery stands up to defend a suspended school teacher. Besides the interest in the subject matter, there's sufficient fireworks between Slattery and a no nonsense parent who happens to be a Board of Education member, to hold your attention throughout. "National Velvet's" Lori Martin plays a featured role.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1964
A reporter is on the hook for a bribe story in a fairly Interesting entry. According to custom, the newsman refuses to name his source and takes quite a shellacking in the process. Good arguments crop up on both sides, something this series handles very neatly.
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1964
Good drama, and an interesting behind-the-scenes look at political parties attempting to discipline their legislative members. A new lady Representative goes after Slattery's hide and almost sheds him of his power. Slattery shows a new toughness in this one and guest star Vera Miles plays the bitter, clever woman with finesse.
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Dec 21, 1964
Two plots, capital punishment and the art of compromise, keep this hour humming. There's a good deal of palaver, some romance, and a nice performance by Martin Milner as an unlikable but idealistic new representative to hold you, even though you'll probably be in the dark about his change of thought at the end.
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1965
Good episode which focuses on the large number of problems that make up a Representative's daily fare. The main storyline concerns the extradition of a friend and Slattery puts his influence to work.
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 22, 1965
A grand show, thanks to a good script and the performances of two old pros, actors Lee Tracy and James Dunn. They fight a town boss in a local election which draws hero Slattery into the action. Actor Dick Crenna does right well with the veterans, but watching and listening to Lee Tracy snap out his lines is the greatest pleasure of the hour.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 5, 1965
Interesting, well acted drama about the sad state of boxing. Hero Slattery, who wants it abolished, puts up some very good reasons for his stand in a tale about a boxer on his way out after suffering brain damage in a fight. The anti-boxing arguments are telling, and so is Robert Blake's performance as fighter Joey Leon.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 12, 1965
The best part ol this drama about high school dope-addicts and a school teacher who advocates harsh measures to stamp out the problem is the acting of Raymond St. Jacques, Susan Bay and Richard Crenna. The plot twists are acceptable and so are the speeches by an angered Slattery and the teacher, but all are made more meaningful in performance.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 19, 1965
First class entry about a doctor who is sued for malpractice after treating an accident victim while out on a fishing trip. Both sides of the ticklish problem are examined in the script, and good performances by Crenna and guests Claude Akins, William Hansen and Barbara Eden give the show a boost.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 26, 1965
The play examines the problem of political parties backing underdogs in campaigns. In this case, a poor college professor is running for Congress, and he's heard expressing himself on controversial and unpopular causes. The cast, led by hero Crenna and guest star John Larch, is splendid.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Mar 5, 1965
Slattery defends a lady doctor on a slander charge in court. Actually, the issue is child beating and the problem tracing cruel parents. Hero Slattery becomes very emotional in the process and indulges in a good deal of speech making, but the play is informative and well cast,
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1965
A woman prosecutor (Zohra Lampert) involves Slattery (Richard Crenna) in a politically explosive investigation of gambling corruption. Cicely Tyson and Tige Andrews are featured.
Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Mar 19, 1965
Pat O'Brien as a bewildered, aging politician, contributes a touching performance. There is too much talk in this one, but viewers, especially older ones, should find interest in the theme concerning a fighting rooster, with weathered wings, who has been put out to pasture. Nancy Wickwire and David McLean co-star.
Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Apr 2, 1965
Some interesting points are made in this drama about conformity in a large housing tract, but the play is weakened somewhat by characters that are overdrawn. Guest stars include Forrest Tucker, Fred Clark and Louise Troy.
Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Apr 9, 1965
Absorbing story about backstage maneuvering at a state political convention. Through all the deals between candidates, the only oddity seems to be a lady campaign manager who flirts and bargains with Slattery. However, the acting is competent and the convention scenes well-paced and produced.
Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Apr 16, 1965
Elsa Lanchester stars as a kooky, motor-scooter riding spinster who battles Slattery (Richard Crenna) and his plan to run a superhighway through her small town animal sanctuary.
Season 2
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1965
Feeling is running high over a water division scheme, and an attempt is made to kill Slattery.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1965
This episode comes up with a dramatic wire tapping tale. Everything Slattery and his new girl Liz say in confidence is put on tape, and the plot, making the hero a victim and romantically involved, comes across.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1965
Serafino Roca labored 30 years to construct three mosaic-encrusted concrete towers---which are about to be condemned.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1965
Slattery's career is at stake in a fight over over a bill to permit humane abortion. Barbara Harrison knows that the child she's expecting is the only thing keeping her marriage together. But the child may suffer congenital defects— Barbara has German measles. The episode examines the legal and ethical aspects of therapeutic abortion.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1965
Representative Slattery investigates a group called the Frontiersmen and listens to their leader spitting fear and hatred.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1965
Serious, downbeat drama about foster homes . The plot deals with a foster child who claims mistreatment and wants to go back to his undependable, drinking father. A good cast led by Ossie Davis, Audrey Christie and young Pat Cardi.
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1965
A war hero is willing to run for office, Slattery doubts the man's intentions are good.
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1965
A lively drama about bribery, kidnapping and Rep. Slattery's best friend, a man who's up for a state judgeship.
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1965
Intriguing, pertinent David Karp drama about a commuter who fights a railroad when his stop is taken off the schedule. Representative Slattery and the news media join the commuter in the lost-cause battle, and their efforts provide a surprising climax.
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1965
Slattery has that old problem of deciding what to do with an old friend (and college professor) who has been accused of being a Communist.