The series
A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
Episodes
Season 1 · 10 episodes · 1960
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Episode 18 Jul 1960
Sir Roger Casement
Once a national hero in Britain, Sir Roger Casement, an Irishman, is tried for treason during the First World War.
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Episode 215 Jul 1960
The Baccarat Scandal
An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.
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Episode 322 Jul 1960
Admiral Byng
After the fall of Minorca, a British admiral is tried for cowardice.
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Episode 429 Jul 1960
Spencer Cowper
A seventeenth-century lawyer is tried for the murder of a Quaker woman.
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Episode 55 Aug 1960
Oscar Wilde
The controversial writer Oscar Wilde is tried for gross indecency after his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has failed.
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Episode 612 Aug 1960
The Dilke Case
An eminent Victorian political figure is involved in a sex scandal.
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Episode 719 Aug 1960
The Tichborne Case
A man is accused of impersonating an aristocrat to gain his fortune.
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Episode 826 Aug 1960
W.T. Stead
A newspaperman arranges for himself to be arrested on a morals charge so that he can use the witness-box to expose the white slave traffic.
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Episode 92 Sep 1960
Governor Wall
An Irishman is, after serving as a governor in an African colony, accused of two murders when he returns to Britain.
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Episode 109 Sep 1960
Horatio Bottomley, MP
A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.
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