And, unsurprisingly, Randy also put this review up
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2014
I was completely unfamiliar with this series. Understandable.
I was fifteen at the time it aired and mostly watched and read
science fiction. It only ran for one season and I read elsewhere
that Peter Falk said he thought more of it than he did his signature
show Columbo. Daniel J. O'Brien is a lawyer that likes to play the
horses and throw the dice, gamble in general, and is not very
successful at any of them. He owes everybody, has an ex-wife that
constantly carps about late alimony in the form of bounced checks,
and a secretary he's always borrowing money from and is behind
on her salary. Fortunately for him, he seems to bring out the soft
spot in women and stays on their good side. Just barely.
O'Brien gets unwittingly involved in a scheme by an old client of his.
Benny Kalen is a three time loser. That he only got a few years on
his last conviction instead of a dozen makes no impression. O'Brien
should have got him off, therefore he didn't deserve to get paid.
O'Brien gets suckered by Benny's wife into being at a bar late one
O'Brien gets suckered by Benny's wife into being at a bar late one
night while Benny and a confederate are pulling a stick-up job on
a finance company that had just opened next door.
Thinks go wrong and there's a dead body. Benny's parole officer had
Thinks go wrong and there's a dead body. Benny's parole officer had
warned O'Brien that he heard his name mentioned and believes he's
in on the job.
Our lawyer is forced to defend his former client, who swears the man
Our lawyer is forced to defend his former client, who swears the man
was already dead and the safe broken into when he entered the office,
in order to clear his name.
Robert L. Fish wrote this one and is the reason I gave it a try.
Robert L. Fish wrote this one and is the reason I gave it a try.
His novel Mute Witness became the Steve McQueen movie Bullitt.
