The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Season 2, Episode 7: Starring the Defense
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Miles Crawford is a former actor turned lawyer. He gets an oppotunity to practice both professions when his son Tod is arrested an put on trial for murder. Tod is guilty but Miles makes an impassioned summation that manages to sway both the judge and the jury. Unfortunately, the prosecutor is a movie fan and he points out that Miles's summation was lifted word for word from a old movie in which Crawford played a defense attorney in charge of a case very similar to the one he is in charge of now.
All Episodes - Season 2
Episode 1
A Home Away from Home
Episode 2
A Nice Touch
Episode 3
Terror in Northfield
Episode 4
You'll Be the Death of Me
Episode 5
Blood Bargain
Episode 6
Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale
Episode 7
Starring the Defense
Episode 8
The Cadaver
Episode 9
The Dividing Wall
Episode 10
Good-Bye George
Episode 11
How to Get Rid of Your Wife
Episode 12
Three Wives Too Many
Episode 13
The Magic Shop
Episode 14
Beyond the Sea of Death
Episode 15
Night Caller
Episode 16
The Evil of Adelaide Winters
Episode 17
The Jar
Episode 18
Final Escape
Episode 19
Murder Case
Episode 20
Anyone for Murder?
Episode 21
Beast in View
Episode 22
Behind the Locked Door
Episode 23
A Matter of Murder
Episode 24
The Gentleman Caller
Episode 25
The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow
Episode 26
Ten Minutes from Now
Episode 27
The Sign of Satan
Episode 28
Who Needs an Enemy?
Episode 29
Bed of Roses
Episode 30
The Second Verdict
Episode 31
Isabel
Episode 32
Body in the Barn