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Also possessed of that swing is Trials of O'Brien, starring Peter Falk as a Manhattan criminal lawyer. A comedy successor to The Defenders, it is suffused with a breath of fresh (for TV) wit and literacy, and Falk steeps the role in a New York City boy's moxie and malarky. After winning a case, he shrugs: "You can't lose them all." Not in court anyway, though Falk blows enough on the ponies and at craps to stay hopelessly in arrears on his rent and alimony payments. All of which should make him an empathic...
...TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A new lawyer series with Peter Falk...
...Courage, and the always dramatically cogent Defenders. Among the whole haul of new shows, only one appears in concept to have any chance of duplicating the originality of that departed trio. The Trials of O'Brien (CBS) is about a lawyer, but, as portrayed by engaging Peter Falk, O'Brien may be TV's first loser-hero. He ducks out of the office to the race track or a crap game, where he's chronically behind, is also nine months in arrears on his rent, and is more or less consistently chased by his ex-wife...
...surrounded by tables and black leather armchairs that swivel-for obvious reasons. Handsome crystal chandeliers illuminate the bar, an elaborately carved pool table graces a paneled billiard room where baseball's Leo Durocher conducts a highly oral brand of psychological warfare against such regulars as Actor Peter Falk. After the 2 a.m. curfew on drinks (but not dancing), free coffee and fresh fruit are provided. But no other food is ever served and no money changes hands; members sign their bills at the end of the evening. On Saturday nights, the Sunday papers are placed in each parked...
...more ardent comic fan was on hand than French Film Director Alain Resnais, who acknowledges that some of the techniques he used in Last Year at Marienbad were based on Mandrake. Resnais hopes to make a movie with Falk, but why, he wanted to know, did Mandrake warm up to Narda back in 1950? Did Falk change the relationship deliberately? Replied a rather stunned Falk: "I can't even remember what I was writing in those days, but I'm sure it wasn't deliberate...