His Honor, Homer Bell

[3] Homer Bell (Gene Lockhart) is both an elected judge and a practising attorney in midwestern Spring City.

[4] He is a middle-aged widower, who is guardian to his orphaned niece, fifteen year-old Cassandra "Casey" Bell (Mary Lee Dearring).

[6] Despite its supposed midwestern setting, the series was produced by Galahad Productions[fn 1] at the NBC Films studio in Brooklyn.

For clarity, "Original Air Date" is based on the first major broadcaster of the series, KCOP Channel 13 in Los Angeles.

Episode titles and summaries are accurate where given but incomplete, and possibly out of original air date sequence.