Lock Up • SYN
CHARACTER: Blake Newman
EPISODE:"The Case of Corporal Newman" (#1.18)
AIRDATE: 23 January 1960

SERIES DESCRIPTION: Lock Up was a black and white, one half-hour show that premiered in September 1959 and ran two seasons, ending in June 1961. Every week Lock Up revealed an account of the unjustly accused. Enter Philadelphia attorney-at-law Herbert L. Maris (Macdonald Carey) who has an uncanny sense of who's guilty and who may be getting a raw deal by the justice system in America. Maris represents the defendants and his practice is to fight for those who have been unjustly charged by the powers that be.

The show began with the following introduction: These stories are based on the files and case histories of Herbert L. Maris, prominent attorney, who has devoted his life to saving the innocent.