Classic Television - Prime Time

Marshall (Arthur Hill) with clients.
From left: Michael Witney, Sharon Gless, John Davidson, Louise Sorel, 1972.

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

Original channel

ABC

Original run

September 16, 1971 – August 24, 1974

Starring

Arthur Hill

Reni Santoni

David Soul

Lee Majors

Joan Darling

Christine Matchett

Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law is an American legal drama, jointly created by David Victor and former law professor Jerry McNeely, that starred actor Arthur Hill. The series was broadcast on ABC from 1971 to 1974. A two-hour pilot movie had aired as a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week entry prior to the series run.

Hill starred as Owen Marshall, a compassionate defense attorney who defended various clients in Santa Barbara, California with the help of his young assistants. During the series run, several actors played the role of Marshall's assistants, including Reni Santoni, David Soul (later of Starsky and Hutch) and Lee Majors, formerly of The Big Valley and The Men From Shiloh. Majors co-starred in the series prior to his appearance in The Six Million Dollar Man.

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law had two crossovers with another David Victor series - Marcus Welby, M.D.. In "Men Who Care", Welby persuades Marshall to defend a man who's accused of killing his daughter's boyfriend, the daughter being one of Welby's patients. In "I've Promised You a Father", Marshall defends Welby's colleague Dr. Richard Kiley in a paternity suit filed by a young nurse, who claims that Kiley is the father of her child.