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Completed First Lines : Case Dismissed
Based on Otter Log dated Feb 15, 2005

Date Aired : 54/01/30 
Episode Number : 1 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Criminal Liability 
First Line : “Case Dismissed. What a nightmare. I’ve got myself into. Can this really happen. I’m losing my job, my home and $25,000.00 to people I’ve never seen. How stupid can a man get?’ 

Date Aired : 54/02/06 
Episode Number : 2 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Legal Wills 
First Line : ‘Case Dismissed. This can be happening to Bill And Marge Gray, the
people who slaved to build a future for their family. Now our children - 
strangers all around them. Parents, money, education, all gone too. What have I done?’ 

Date Aired : 54/02/13 
Episode Number : 3 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Pitfalls of Buying a Home 
First Line : ‘Case Dismissed. You meant to say that just because my wife and I signed a simple little memo, we’ve lost $2000.00 and that we’re stuck with a $16,500 home that we don’t even want? ‘

Date Aired : 54/02/20 
Episode Number : 4 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Child Support 
First Line : ‘Case Dismissed. I’ll rot in the clink hey, and most likely the 
whole week-end too. A real great deal, and you know why? Because all the laws are made for women. Tell me, Mr smart lawyer, when are they going to start making laws for men.’ 

Date Aired : 54/02/27 
Episode Number : 5 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Installment Buying 
First Line : ‘Case Dismissed. I purchased this automobile after careful 
demonstration and I understand that there is no warranty implied or expressed upon same. No warranty, o brother, what did I sign?’ 

Date Aired : 54/03/06 
Episode Number : 6 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Adoption 
First Line :’Case Dismissed. When could Billy appear in public again. Could we ever? Without fear? What kind of a life are we trying to buy for him? For us?’ 

Date Aired : 54/03/13 
Episode Number : 7 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Landlord and Tenant 
First Line : ‘Case Dismissed. You’ll pay up or I’ll sue.’ 
‘Aw you, shut up, not another nickle, not another nickle.’ 
‘ I’ll throw you two out of here. I’ll throw you out of this house.’ 

Date Aired : 54/03/20 
Episode Number : 8 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Rights When Arrested 
First Line : ‘Case Dismissed. I’ve been here nearly five hours now. When do I 
get a chance to see somebody other than you? When do I get a fair trial? When do I talk to a judge?’ 

Date Aired : 54/03/27 
Episode Number : 9 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Liability for Minors 
First Line : ‘Case Dismissed. It’s no joke, Betty. All I can hope for is that 
itÆ’ some  sort of mistake. Sure there was some silly little paper just 
before I went into the service, but I didn’t pay much attention to it. According to this paper, I owe nearly $8,000 to a woman I haven’t actually seen for 13 years.’ 

Date Aired : 54/04/03 
Episode Number : 10 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Responsibilities of Eye Witnesses 
First Line : ‘Case Dismissed. What a horrible mess, Katie, seeing this poor guy lying there cold and the officer saying heÆs dead. And them trying to pin it on me, and know that nobody, absolute nobody will stand up and say I had nothing to do with it.’ 

Date Aired : 54/04/10 
Episode Number : 11 
Available : NO 
Title/Plot/Host: Operating A Small Business 
First Line : 

Date Aired : 54/04/17 
Episode Number : 12 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Libel and Slander 
First Line : ‘Case Dismissed. Monday morning was quite different. At first I 
suspected nothing. But then rumors began floating around. Little clusters of 
students began to form between classes, and then reform elsewhere. Or was I imaging it? ‘

Date Aired : 54/04/24 
Episode Number : 13 
Available : YES 
Title/Plot/Host: Juvenile Delinquency 
First Line : ‘Case Dismissed. We werenÆt going to steal the old car. We were 
just going for a joy ride. 
I’ll joyride you, you numbskull. Now get inside. 
Ow Dad!’