Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law is an American legal drama, jointly created by David Victor and former speech professor Jerry McNeely, that starred Arthur Hill. The series was broadcast on ABC from 1971 to 1974; Victor and McNeely produced it under the "Groverton Productions" banner through Universal Television, then an MCA company. A two-hour pilot movie, titled "A Pattern of Morality," had aired as a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week entry prior to the beginning of the series run.
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Synopsis
Hill starred as Owen Marshall, a former prosecutor turned compassionate defense attorney, who defended various clients in Santa Barbara, California, with the help of his young assistants. During the series run, several actors appeared as Marshall's assistants, including Reni Santoni, David Soul, and Lee Majors.
Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law had two crossovers with Marcus Welby, M.D., another series in whose creation and production David Victor was directly involved. In the first, "Men Who Care," Welby (Robert Young) persuades Marshall to defend a man who is accused of killing his daughter's boyfriend, the daughter being one of Welby's patients. In the second, "I've Promised You a Father," Marshall defends Welby's colleague Dr. Steven Kiley (James Brolin) in a paternity suit filed by a young nurse, who claims that Kiley is the father of her child.
Cast
Arthur Hill as Owen Marshall
David Soul as Ted Warrick
Reni Santoni as Danny Paterno
Lee Majors as Jess Brandon
Joan Darling as Frieda Krause
Christine Matchett as Melissa Marshall
Guest stars
The series marked one of director Steven Spielberg's earliest television directing stints and boasted many well-known guest stars, including: