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- The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
- A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
- Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
- The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
- Four armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
- A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.
- The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.
- A father and son lawyer duo take a variety of cases that often deal with the important issues of the day.
- The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother dictate otherwise, and he finds himself being slowly drawn back into that world.
- David Koster is an obsessive New York City assistant district attorney who gets into trouble because of his passion for justice. His boss, Anthony Celese, tries to keep him under control while New York police detective Frank Malloy helps him solve cases. Koster's wife Phyllis is a viola player in a string quartet and her own life's priorities come into conflict with David's.
- The rise and fall of a 1930's Brooklyn crime syndicate, known as Murder Incorporated, led by mobster Lepke Buchalter.
- The crime busting techniques of Iroquois detective John Hawk of the New York City District Attorney's office.
- The story takes place in a large hospital and revolves around two nurses, Liz Thorpe (Shirl Conway), the older head nurse, and Gail Lucas, the naive student nurse. The two nurses were joined by doctors in 1964 and these doctors tried to help the nurses resolve moral and ethical problems.
- A flamboyant, Shakespeare-quoting, New York City defense attorney always seems to get into trouble.
- When two lovers separated due to financial circumstance are reunited several years later under one roof, sparks fly and emotions run high. How will they resolve this relationship?
- Morris Mishkin is an elderly Jewish tailor plagued by hard times who prays to God for help and receives it in the person of a most unusual angel named Levine, a young, black, Jewish hustler from somewhere between Harlem and Heaven.
- Four Jewish intellectuals carpool to the funeral of their old friend Leslie Braverman, who died suddenly at age 41.
- When some priceless Macedonian treasures are swiped, lawyer Falk arrives to get to the bottom of things. He spends a good deal of time dodging more bad guys than in the average film, but that is because this is just two episodes of his "Trials of O'Brien" television show edited together and dumped quickly into the theaters. Plenty of dead bodies pile up along the way, with little excitement en route.
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- A famous writer is accused of writing an obscene book.
- While walking his do in the park, Peter Dowling is confronted by three young men who threaten him. Dowling kills one of the young men and is indicted for manslaughter. Although the Prestons argue that he killed in self-defense based on the idea of self-preservation, the prosecution disagrees as the boy was unarmed.
- The subject of euthanasia is at the crux of this mystery when Rita Bernard's terminally-ill husband dies suddenly from an overdose of morphine. Although she declares her innocence, Rita is charged with the crime after her embittered mother-in-law Helen insists that she murdered her son. The ensuing trial proves tough for both sides as each woman offers compelling and very convincing testimony.
- The Prestons accept the case of three defendants involved in a bizarre murder case. The seamen are charged with killing a fourth man with whom they were stranded on a small lifeboat in the ocean following a shipboard explosion. The twist in the case: the murder was committed with the victim's full consent in order to increase the odds of survival for the other men.
- A strange young woman claims she has been told "by voices" to kill someone.
- Dr. Tasso is a fervent advocate of birth control - which gets her into trouble.
- The Prestons defend a retired vaudevillian who is accused of murdering his son-in-law. The main witness is the accused man's nine-year-old granddaughter.
- A decade after being blacklisted in Hollywood for his political ties, former actor-turned-shoe-salesman Joe Larch receives an offer for a comeback in a new film. When Larch's plans are thwarted by a radical political group pressuring the town's mayor to stop the production, Larch hires the Prestons to file a libel suit against his enemies.
- Lawrence and Kenneth Preston go to Blood County, Pennsylvania, to represent a hunter who has been coerced into confessing to a killing he didn't commit. They find that local law enforcement doesn't want any "outside agitators" in their community, and they soon become the objects of threats--and more.
- In a change from their usual work, the Prestons undertake to look after the legal business involved in getting a play through a tour and onto Broadway.
- Arnold Foster is jailed for a crime of which he is innocent. Can he survive the American prison system?
- Lawrence Preston defends a once-famous actress on a drunk-driving charge.
- When a patient bleeds to death during a routine hernia operation, his widow wants answers, yet she finds few forthcoming, so she asks the Prestons help. The lawyer and his son work on the case, finding the doctors and staff of the hospital closing ranks, except for a young intern with a guilty conscience.
- The Prestons defend a man charged with murdering a storekeeper during a robbery, but they strongly disagree over his guilt. The drug-addicted client was found unconscious at the scene with the murder weapon in his hand. Lawrence believes he definitely committed the act and only hopes to plead for a lesser sentence, but Kenneth believes the man may be completely innocent of the murder.
- Howard March is desperate to prevent his daughter from going to Vermont with her boyfriend.
- Harried businessman Bob Garrison storms off following a fight with his wife, runs a red light, and strikes a pedestrian. The Prestons encourage him to accept a plea of temporary insanity, arguing that severe emotional conflicts made him act without reason.
- A comedian who is terminally ill fights for his right to commit suicide after his incarceration in a mental hospital.
- Sheila Phelps is an alcoholic. Can the Prestons used this information to defend her in court?
- Whilst representing Mrs. Potter in her divorce, widower Lawrence Preston finds himself falling in love with her.
- Young hoodlums Erik Davis and Arnold Campbell violently beat an elderly man to death on a city street for seemingly no reason. Although 27 eyewitnesses are spectators to the crime, none make any attempt to help the victim. Lawrence agrees to defend the accused, and their motives, as well as the eyewitnesses', are revealed on the witness stand.
- Dr. Byron Saul's controversial use of LSD in treating his patients is called into question after a patient dies whilst under the drug's influence.
- When a sixteen-year-old boy is accused of shoplifting, the Prestons find his divorced parents are uncaring.
- Rich Mr. Gideon has recently married for the sixth time, and has invited all his slightly flaky ex-wives to meet his new spouse. Then he gets murdered. Police charge the new Mrs. Gideon, and the Prestons defend her---in an unusual way.
- Candidate Matthew Ritter's young son vanishes during his party's sprawling convention ceremonies. After receiving a kidnapper's demand for $200,000 in exchange for his boy's safety, Ritter seeks help from Lawrence Preston instead of the police. Preston agrees to act as a go-between as public and private pressures mount for the Ritter family.
- In this comedic tale elderly, genteel Louisa Clarendon and her sisters have seen better financial days. With a lien due on their home and unable to pay the fee, Louisa decides to solve their problem by threatening to blow up a bank unless it hands over enough cash to cover their expenses. She then selects the Prestons at random to defend her.
- A lonely nonentity confesses (untruthfully) to the killing of a drug dealer in the hope of finding some transitory celebrity.
- A successful business man is framed for murder by a woman who claims to have been his mistress.
- After his political party attempts to have him impeached from office on a charge of malfeasance, Governor William Defoe seeks legal assistance from Lawrence, who is an old college buddy. Defoe claims he's being ousted because of radical changes he wants to make his party; however, as testimony begins before a judiciary committee, accusations arise that Defoe bought his way into governor's mansion with a sizable, anonymous donation.
- The trial of Frank Thorpe, a businessman accused of engaging a hit man to murder a competitor, has ended. Twelve jurors are sequestered to decide upon a verdict. Although they're instructed to not discuss the case outside of official deliberations, jurors begin to expose their thoughts and prejudices in casual conversations and flashbacks to events during the trial.
- An unjustly-convicted man breaks out of jail just as evidence comes through that can clear him - but, in the escape, he's killed a man.
- When mild-mannered Jim McLeery kills an abusive stranger, it seems a clear-cut case of self-defense. But the prosecution reveals that, in his army days, McCleery was trained to kill.