Sam Benedict is a legal drama from MGM Television, starring a 47-year-old Edmond O'Brien, which ran on NBC during the 1962–1963 television season. O'Brien played the experienced, flamboyant San Francisco attorney Sam Benedict. Richard Rust portrayed his 24-year-old understudy, Hank Tabor. The series was modeled on the career of famous defense lawyer and author Jake Ehrlich, who served as a technical consultant to the program. Producer/writer Gene...
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Sam Benedict is a legal drama from MGM Television, starring a 47-year-old Edmond O'Brien, which ran on NBC during the 1962–1963 television season. O'Brien played the experienced, flamboyant San Francisco attorney Sam Benedict. Richard Rust portrayed his 24-year-old understudy, Hank Tabor. The series was modeled on the career of famous defense lawyer and author Jake Ehrlich, who served as a technical consultant to the program. Producer/writer Gene Roddenberry, subsequently of Star Trek, had previously failed in his effort to turn Ehrlich's life into a series called 333 Montgomery Street, with DeForest Kelley as "Jake Brittin".
Just prior to Sam Benedict, O'Brien had starred earlier in a detective series Johnny Midnight and had completed supporting roles in the films The Longest Day, appearing as General Raymond O. Barton in the story of D-Day, and cast as the narrator, Tom Gaddis, in Birdman of Alcatraz with Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, and Telly Savalas.
E. Jack Neumann was the...
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