Pilot
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1976
Walter Franklin has to cope with a bad case of nerves as he preens for his first date with widow Linda Jenkins in almost two years.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1976
Walter Franklin has to cope with a bad case of nerves as he preens for his first date with widow Linda Jenkins in almost two years.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1976
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1976
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1978
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1976
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1976
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1976
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1976
Judge Franklin gets more than he bargained for on the bench when he replaces another jurist and has to deal with an attorney notorious for his devious tactics.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1976
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1976
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 23, 1976
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1976
Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1977
Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1977
Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1977
Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1977
When Judge Franklin's housekeeper, Mrs. McClellan, finds out that she may be deported because of an invalidated visa, she comes up with a plan to avoid deportation.
Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1977
Judge Franklin strongly objects to his daughter Bobby's dating a much older man — until the tables are turned. Walter finds himself attracted to a younger woman, his son's teacher.
Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1977
Judge Franklin goes to jail — sort of — when he is asked to spend his vacation in a minimun security jail to report on the conditions there. It doesn't quite work out as expected.
Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1977
Judge Frankin's son comes to his father's courtroom to see his idol, the toughest hockey player in the league testify, and learns a lesson when he tries to emulate his hero's hockey style.
Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1977
Franklin is perturbed when his children seek his housekeeper's advice instead of his.
Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Mar 3, 1977
Judge Walter Franklin's life is in danger and Mario Lanza, the person he can't stand, takes a leave from the District Attorney's office to protect him.
Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Mar 10, 1977
Judge Walter Franklin challenges Judge Samuel Barnett, veteran of 32 years on the years on the bench, for election as Superior Court Judge.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1977
Bobby, Franklin's daughter, who has been away at school, decides to come back to Philadelphia to go to college.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1977
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1977
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1977
The Franklins are fascinated with globe-trotting tales of a photographer.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1977
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1977
Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1977
Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1977
Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1977
Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1977
Judge Walter makes numerous frustrating attempts to save Miss Reubner from the clutches of Charlie Finmore, a handsome lawyer, whom he had known for years to be a casanova. Miss Reubner sees love, but all Walter can see is heartbreak ahead and his failure to convince her that Charlie is a gigolo.
Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1977
Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Dec 24, 1977
Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1978
Mario represents a teenage who is suing her parents.
Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1978
Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1978
Mis Reubner accepts Jack's invitation to attend a ballroom.
Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1978
Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Feb 4, 1978
Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1978
Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1978
Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1978
Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Mar 11, 1978
Some memorable moments of Walter's first days as a judge are relived when the Franklin family gives Walter a surprise anniversary party honoring his three years on the bench.
Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1978