The Mississippi
(1982)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 2
Home Again
Episode 17 - 3-06-1984
Ben finds himself working with a flamboyant, publicity-seeking attorney when he agrees to represent a professional football player facing trial on drug charges.
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Abigail
Episode 16 - 2-07-1984
An elderly farmer hires Ben to defend a young navy veteran who is accused of killing his father after an explosive argument.
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Informed Consent
Episode 15 - 1-24-1984
Ben is asked by the army to defend a sergeant accused of slugging a fellow officer who he claims was trying to rape his daughter.
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Wheels of Justice
Episode 14 - 1-17-1984
Ben defends a hot-headed ex-convict suspected of murdering both a foreman who recently fired him and a man who claimed to have seen him fleeing from the crime.
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Going Back to Hannibal
Episode 13 - 1-10-1984
Ben defends the embittered survivor of a German concentration camp who is suspected of murdering a Nazi war criminal hiding in a small Mississippi river town.
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The Big Leagues
Episode 12 - 12-27-1983
Ben becomes involved in the defense of a rebellious teenager who maintains his innocence of armed robbery, yet is terrified to reveal the guilty parties.
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Between Fathers and Sons
Episode 11 - 12-13-1983
A peaceful activist emerges from hiding to seek Ben's help in exonerating her of a 15-year-old murder charge.
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G.I. Blues
Episode 10 - 11-29-1983
The mother of a man who has been murdered hires Ben to defend his wife, the primary suspect in the shooting death.
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Town Without Pity
Episode 9 - 11-22-1983
A beautiful woman hires Ben to defend her young, retarded gardener Jerry against murder charges.
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Crisis of Identity
Episode 8 - 11-15-1983
Ben defends a private nurse who is charged with murder when the wealthy man for whom she was caring dies of a drug overdose.
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Joey
Episode 7 - 11-08-1983
Ben takes on the medical profession in defense of a midwife who defies the law to practice the craft of child delivery with a skill rivaled by few obstetricians.
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Peace with Honor
Episode 6 - 11-01-1983
Ben returns to his roots as a prosecutor to imprison a man he unsuccessfully attempted to prosecute for murder 25 years ago and who has now committed a similar crime.
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The Shooting
Episode 5 - 10-25-1983
Former resident Margaret Hammond writes a best-seller, ""River Town"", about the place where she grew up, and lawyer Ben has to dig deep for a defense that will saver her from a libel charge by the town's most affluent family.
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The Last Voice You Hear
Episode 4 - 10-18-1983
Ben is caught in a legal and emotional crossfire of embattled former spouses over who knows what is best for their nine-year-old child.
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The Trial of Ben Walker
Episode 3 - 10-11-1983
Ben gets involved in the case of a teenager who claims that a doctor performed an unnecessary radical mastectomy on her mother.
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Cradle to Grave
Episode 2 - 10-04-1983
Ben seeks to unravel an incriminating web of circumstantial evidence that links a mystery writer and his lover to murder.
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There is a Tiger in the Town
Episode 1 - 9-27-1983
Ben comes to the aid of an elderly newspaper editor who, traumatized by his wife's death, took on the identity of Mark Twain, and is now accused of murdering the man suspected of killing his wife.
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Season 1
Old Hatreds Die Hard
Episode 6 - 5-06-1983
Ben and his black assistant Lafe face a bigoted deposed sheriff, and soon learn that almost two decades cannot heal the wounds suffered during the civil rights movement in the South.
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Mardi Gras
Episode 5 - 4-29-1983
Ben is in for some surprises when he defends a longtime family retainer on jewelry theft charges and learns things are not what they seem to be.
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We Remember, We Revere
Episode 4 - 4-15-1983
When Ben comes to the aid of a young cadet at a military academy, he uncovers some disturbing facts which indicate the cadet, an accused murderer, may have been the intended victim.
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Episode 3 - 4-08-1983
Ben is called upon to defend the accused killer of an old friend's wife and learns that things aren't always what they appear to be.
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Edge of the River
Episode 2 - 4-01-1983
Ben learns that justice in the bayou country for a girl from the other side of the tracks who opposes the town boss, is a feather in a windstorm—but it can be caught.
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Murder at Mt. Parnassus
Episode 1 - 3-25-1983
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When Southern beauty Merilee Worthing is murdered, Ben comes to the defense of free-spirited Cal Woodley, a young activist whom the town would like to see disappear.
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