Hawkins
The cases of slow-talking West Virginia attorney Billy Jim Hawkins.
Cast:James Stewart , Strother Martin , Mayf Nutter , James Hampton , Suzanne Hunt , Tyne Daly , Murray Hamilton , James Luisi , Bonnie Bedelia , Sheree North , Jeanette Nolan , Henry Jones , Teresa Wright , Paul Burke , Warren J. Kemmerling , James Best , Cameron Mitchell , Diana Douglas
S1.E0 ∙ Death and the Maiden
Hawkins defends an heiress charged with a triple murder.
S1.E1 ∙ Murder in Movieland
Hawkins comes to Hollywood to defend a star's husband in a murder case. The man claims that he killed a playboy when he caught him trying to rape his daughter. But Hawkins doubts that he is telling him the full truth.
S1.E2 ∙ Die, Darling, Die
Hawkins defends a woman who is accused of murdering her wealthy elderly husband, who was bedridden with an incurable disease. She admits to not giving him the medicine he needed, but refuses to discuss her motives. While many believe it was a mercy killing, an ambitious assistant district attorney is trying to prove she did it because of the two million dollars she would inherit.
S1.E3 ∙ A Life for a Life
Hawkins defends a man who is charged with killing one of the two psychology professors whom he blames for the suicide of his son. Making it worse is that he was recorded on a television news tape vowing to make both men pay "a life for a life".
S1.E4 ∙ Blood Feud
Hawkins comes to his own hometown to defend his own cousin's accused killer (and R.J.'s opponent in the upcoming sheriff's race). Fueling the case against the man is that he has been openly in love with the victim's wife, and that there has been talk of a long-standing feud between his family and the Hawkins clan.
S1.E5 ∙ Murder in the Slave Trade
Hawkins defends a star football player who is accused of killing his team's owner, a man who was apparently hated by plenty of other people as well, including his wife.
S1.E6 ∙ Murder on the Thirteenth Floor
Hawkins defends the son of an old flame, who has been charged with murdering a drug-addicted young woman whom he had put into a room at the hotel his mother runs
S1.E7 ∙ Candidate for Murder
Hawkins defends a U.S. Senator's aide who's been charged with the murder of a muckraking reporter who was going to air a story that might have caused embarrassment to his boss.
