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Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law - Episode Guide

Season 1

A Lonely Stretch of Beach

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1971

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Owen Marshall and Jess Brandon defend Alex Kasparian, a schoolteacher charged with molesting Valerie Pruitt, one of his pupils.  Marshall's belief in his client's innocence is strained when a psychiatrist asserts he has no doubt the child has been molested. A housewife who has seen Valerie with Kasparian in his parked car presents further damaging testimony. 

Shadow of a Name

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1971

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A dramatic clash of wills takes shape at a murder trial. Marshall is assisting a defense attorney who is determined to win at any cost.

Burden of Proof

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1971

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Owen and Jess defend Frank Latham, charged with the deliberate hit-and-run slaying of his wife. Latham's only defense against overwhelming evidence is that he answered a call from a televison audience survey at the time of the crime. However, a check with the survey organization reveals that no call was made to Latham that evening 

Season 2

The Trouble with Ralph

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1972

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A man is accused of hijacking, but all the evidence against him seems circumstantial. Marshall accepts to defend him because he is an old friend.

Five Will Get You Six

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1972

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A mild-mannered architect commits perjury before a grand jury.

Final Semester

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1973

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Suspenseful, if complicated entry, holds your attention because of the characters rather than the plot. A charming, well-liked professor is killed shortly after Barry Meadows, a student and basketball star, is heard threatening the teacher for taking over his girl. Owen Marshall's difficult problem is to track down the professor's possible enemies, since Barry insists on his innocence, and his detective work leads him to the victim's wife (Diana Hyland) and his successor (William Smithers), both exceedingly well written and performed.

Season 3

Once a Lion

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1973

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Owen believes a convicted murderer is innocent, but the only way to gain a new trial is to prove incompetence against the defense attorney, an old and close friend. The relationship between revered teacher and student is the focus of this offbeat and absorbing tale. A retired lawyer, a legend in his lifetime, well played by Ralph Bellamy, decides to come out of retirement and take up the defense of a young man accused of murder. What he forgets to consider is the state of his health and its effect on his concentration, both of which create a situation of near disaster for his client and his former student, Owen Marshall.

N is for Nightmare

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1973

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When Kim Hodges is found raped and murdered, a mass of evidence indicates that her mother's fiance, Mike Benson, is guilty. But a quotation from Elizabethan poetry in a testimony of Kim's professor, Nelson Hayes, leads Marshall into a new line of questioning in Benson's defense.

The Sterilization of Judy Simpson

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1974

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Thoughtful examination of a subject of topical concern, the sterilization of the retarded, especially among the very poor. In this case, the young lady involved is almost 18, only slightly retarded, and unwilling to be sterilized, even though her mother has signed the authorization. The dedicated lady doctor (Eve Arden), may be a bit too harsh in her drive for sterilization and that gives Owen Marshall the cue he needs to explore.

The Break-In

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1974

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Christopher George guest stars as a detective who is charged with a wrongful death after he enters a home without'a search warrant and kills a youth he believes to be a jewel thief.

To Keep and Bear Arms

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Mar 23, 1974

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Owen represents a bus passenger when he is paralyzed as the result of a richochet bullet fired by an angered bus driver during a robbery.

The Ghost of Buzz Stevens

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1974

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Owen Marshall accepts to defend a newspaper reporter jailed for contempt of court to reveal his sources on a drug story in the record industry.

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