The Bold Ones: The Lawyers

Mentored by experienced lawyer Walter Nichols, attorney brothers Brian and Neil combine their talents to establish a successful law firm. Brian excels in research while impulsive Neil tackles challenging cases.

Genre: Drama

Cast:Burl Ives , Joseph Campanella , James Farentino , John Milford , Todd Martin , Herbert Nelson , Will Geer , Charles Aidman , Pamela McMyler , Walter Brooke , David Spielberg , Len Wayland , Bill Quinn , John S. Ragin , Ramon Bieri , Anne Helm , Georg Stanford Brown , Ford Rainey

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ A Game of Chance

Sat, Sep 20, 1969

Neil defends a man and woman accused of killing the woman's husband. Another man confesses to the killing, but Neil then suspects the detective assigned to the case of deliberately planting false evidence against the original defendants. When he begins investigating this, Neil is framed for heroin possession, and he and Brian try to prove the cop was behind it.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The People Against Ortega

Sat, Oct 11, 1969

The wife of Brian's longtime friend is murdered, and Brian must defend a Mexican worker accused of the crime.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ The Crowd Pleaser

Sat, Nov 1, 1969

The lawyers learn that the man they successfully defended at a murder trial is the real killer. Then another man is charged with the murder, and the firm decides to defend him, though due to legal ethics they cannot reveal what they know about their first client.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ The Rockford Riddle

Sat, Nov 15, 1969

Wife on trial for killing husband's mistress. Husband testifies he did it. After trial he recants; goes to jail - doesn't matter, the actress playing the wife is Claudette Longet who would killed her lover in real life. Must see episode!!.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Shriek of Silence

Sat, Nov 29, 1969

Nichols and the Darrells represent a gubernatorial candidate charged with the murder of a female campaign worker.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Trial of a Mafioso

Sat, Jan 3, 1970

Frank Delacy, former mafioso, turned informer, has been in prison for 15 years. Original attorney was discovered to have been drinking heavily throughout original trial. He believes Nichols and the Darrells can get him a new trial and acquitted. No one gives him much of a chance for staying alive, with 5 mafioso families waiting for revenge on the outside.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Point of Honor

Sat, Jan 24, 1970

Randy Burroughs, on the run for killing a teenage girl three years ago, arranges a meeting with Brian in the small town of Plainview and asks that he represent him---not because he is innocent, but just so he can inherit the money of his recently deceased aunt. Brian turns him down, but Burroughs comes back to L.A. anyway after finding another lawyer. A waitress Brian met in Plainview also comes to L.A., claiming that she can provide testimony against Burroughs, and Brian and Nichols fear for her safety if Burroughs is freed.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ The Shattered Image

Sat, Feb 14, 1970

Nichols successfully defends a man accused of murdering a popular athlete that he claims was forcing himself upon his wife. But he then finds himself charged with bribing one of the jurors.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Verdict

Sat, Sep 26, 1970

The lawyers wrestle with their conscience when they defend a doctor guilty of performing an illegal abortion.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Panther in a Cage

Sat, Oct 17, 1970

A cop is killed on a raid at Black Panther HQ for drugs and weapons in Watts, but the police may have the wrong man. The firm represents the boy at the fathers urging.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Trial of a PFC

Sat, Nov 7, 1970

Nichols agrees to defend a decorated Vietnam veteran, now living a counterculture lifestyle, who is charged with murdering a platoon mate whom he was lifelong friends with. But though he says he is innocent, he refuses to tell exactly what did happen or why.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The People Against Doctor Chapman

Sat, Dec 5, 1970

Brian defends a client who is accused of practicing medicine without a licenses when one of his patients dies even though he has military training as a Vietnam combat medic.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Loneliness Racket

Sat, Dec 19, 1970

The firm defends a woman accused of killing a man she met through a matchmaking service, not knowing he was already married.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Search for Leslie Grey

Sat, Jan 9, 1971

A wealthy client hires Neil to check into his own background to head off a corporate probe. This leads to Neil being suspected by the police of the murder of a man whom his client may have taken the identity of. Or was it the other way around?

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Hyland Confession

Sat, Jan 30, 1971

Merrell Hyland is found dead in his home and wife Joyce is arrested after signing a confession yet recalls nothing the next day. Brian Darrell takes the lead in her defense but a resident swami complicates matters.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Price of Justice

Sat, Feb 20, 1971

Nichols and Brian take the case of a young Indian charged with killing a fellow tribesman at a construction site. The young man refuses to tell just what happened. So, at first, do five other tribesmen who are believed to have witnessed the killing, but they later suddenly change their minds without explanation.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The Invasion of Kevin Ireland

Sat, Sep 25, 1971

The firm defends Kevin Ireland, who admits trashing the office of a private background investigator whose reports, based on erroneous information, cost Ireland his employment and his marriage.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ The Strange Secret of Yermo Hill

Sat, Oct 16, 1971

A serviceman is found intoxicated in the apartment of a young woman who appears to have been strangled to death. The young man remembers nothing about how she died, but there appears to be no possible way for anyone else to have gotten out of the apartment. Brian locates an acquaintance of hers who brags that he can provide an answer, but refuses to tell him any more.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Hall of Justice

Sat, Oct 30, 1971

Follows the lawyers through four separate cases: one involving rape, one involving euthanasia, and two involving drug offenses.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ In Defense of Ellen McKay

Sat, Nov 13, 1971

Brian finds himself falling for his client, a woman changed with the murder of her husband.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ By Reason of Insanity

Sat, Nov 27, 1971

Young Miles Parker, years after being kidnapped as a child, vows revenge on the man he believes is guilty. He is arrested after holding the man hostage, leading his lawyers to plead his obsession is a form of insanity.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Justice Is a Sometime Thing

Sat, Dec 11, 1971

The team agrees to defend for free an innocent Latino youth who is being pressured to accept a plea deal but they must find his companion and like witness to the crime who is an undocumented girl who has fled back to Mexico.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Letter of the Law

Sat, Dec 25, 1971

The attorneys are shocked when one of their mentors, a highly respected attorney and legal scholar now terminally ill, summons them to his home, along with six other people whom he once successfully defended in murder trials. He announces that one of the six was actually guilty of the crime, though he doesn't say which one, and that he intends to make that person pay now for their crime.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ The Long Morning After: Part 1

Sat, Jan 8, 1972

Neil's friend Maggie comes to him, claiming she found a dead woman under suspicious circumstances. When Maggie herself dies, Neil suspects a retired general behind it all.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Long Morning After: Part 2

Sat, Jan 15, 1972

Neil's investigation of two women's deaths seem to involve a retired general. A wealthy new wife and the man's estranged daughter may provide the answer but a hit man's arrival changes everything.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ In Sudden Darkness

Sat, Jan 29, 1972

Lauren Hazelwood claims she murdered her father but can not remember doing it. Nicholls and Darrell take the case.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Lisa, I Hardly Knew You

Sat, Feb 12, 1972

Neil Darrell is to marry Lisa Lambert, former girlfriend of Neil's old college roommate Lennie Harmon. Lisa apparently commits suicide on their wedding day by a drug overdose.