Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law - Episode Guide

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 16, 1971

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1971

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. 

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1971

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 7, 1971

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1971

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 21, 1971

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1971

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.

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1971

Drama about a haunting confrontation with the past. It begins when Marshall reopens a murder trial that he helped win as an assistant DA.

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1971

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1971

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1971

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 

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1971

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1971

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1971

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1972

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1972

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1972

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1972

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1972

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1972

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1972

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1972

Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1972

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 14, 1972

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1972

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Sep 28, 1972

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1972

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1972

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1972

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.

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1972

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

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 2, 1972

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 9, 1972

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 16, 1972

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Nov 30, 1972

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Dec 7, 1972

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Dec 14, 1972

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Dec 21, 1972

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jan 4, 1973

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1973

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1973

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1973

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1973

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1973

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1973

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1973

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.

Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Mar 14, 1973

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 12, 1973

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1973

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.

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1973

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1973

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1973

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.

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1973

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1973

When his former woman friend is found murdered in her apartment, Tom Koveny, a clergyman, is charged with the crime.

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1973

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1973

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1973

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1973

Mistaking her husband to be a prowler, Kit Howell shoots him and is charged with murder after evidence indicates she may have learned of his romantic affair with a nightclub singer. After Kit tells her husband she has heard prowlers around the house for several nights, he advises her to get a gun. Then, one night, she shoots at a shadowy figure outside her house — only to find she has killed her husband, who was coming home from his nightclub. The District Attorney learns that the husband was having an affair with a club singer, Stephanie Marks, and charges the wife with murder. Kit's brother, Tom Dayton, enlists Owen Marshall to defend her.

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1973

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1974

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jan 19, 1974

Owen defends a losing cause legally, but possibly a victory morally, when he defends a doctor friend in his stand against a private hospital for not admitting a dying boy.

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jan 26, 1974

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Feb 2, 1974

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Feb 9, 1974

Owen defends a policeman who is accused of murder after he kills the son of a wealthy businessman.

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Feb 16, 1974

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.

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1974

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.

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1974

On "Marcus Welby" a young nurse named Dr. Kiley the father of her son. Now Owen Marshall and Company undertake the doctor's defense in court. Kim Darby and Lynda Day George guest star.

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Mar 23, 1974

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.

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1974

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1974

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.