The Trials of O'Brien

The Trials of O'Brien
Peter Falk and Joanna Barnes, 1965.
Genre	Legal drama/comedy
Created by	Gene Wang
Developed by	Gene Wang
Starring	Peter Falk Elaine Stritch Joanna Barnes
Theme music composer	Sid Ramin
Country of origin	USA
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	22
Production
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	48 mins.
Production company(s)	Mayo Productions, The O'Brien Company
Distributor	Filmways Orion Television MGM Television (current distributor)
Release
Original network	CBS
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 18, 1965 (1965-09-18) – May 27, 1966 (1966-05-27)

The Trials of O'Brien is a 1965 television series starring Peter Falk as a sordid Shakespeare-quoting lawyer and featuring Elaine Stritch as his secretary and Joanna Barnes as his ex-wife.

The series ran for only 22 episodes on CBS Television between September 18, 1965 and March 18, 1966.

Among its guest stars: Milton Berle, Robert Blake (later of Baretta), David Carradine, Faye Dunaway, Britt Ekland, Tammy Grimes, Buddy Hackett, Gene Hackman, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Cloris Leachman, Roger Moore, Rita Moreno, Estelle Parsons, Joanna Pettet, Brock Peters, Tony Roberts, and Martin Sheen.

Falk often said that he actually liked this financially unsuccessful series much better than his later smash-hit Columbo.

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