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On Trial

1960

1 season

10 episodes

CrimeDrama

A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.

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Cast

Peter Wyngarde

Abraham Sofaer

John Robinson

John Justin

Alan Webb

Michael Shepley

Graham Crowden

Redmond Phillips

Donald Wolfit

Charles Heslop

William Mervyn

Laurence Payne

Ep 1
1.Sir Roger Casement
08-07-1960
Once a national hero in Britain, Sir Roger Casement, an Irishman, is tried for treason during the First World War.
Ep 2
2.The Baccarat Scandal
15-07-1960
An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.
Ep 3
3.Admiral Byng
22-07-1960
After the fall of Minorca, a British admiral is tried for cowardice.
Ep 4
4.Spencer Cowper
29-07-1960
A seventeenth-century lawyer is tried for the murder of a Quaker woman.
Ep 5
5.Oscar Wilde
05-08-1960
The controversial writer Oscar Wilde is tried for gross indecency after his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has failed.
Ep 6
6.The Dilke Case
12-08-1960
An eminent Victorian political figure is involved in a sex scandal.
Ep 7
7.The Tichborne Case
19-08-1960
A man is accused of impersonating an aristocrat to gain his fortune.
Ep 8
8.W.T. Stead
26-08-1960
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.
Ep 9
9.Governor Wall
02-09-1960
An Irishman is, after serving as a governor in an African colony, accused of two murders when he returns to Britain.
Ep 10
10.Horatio Bottomley, MP
09-09-1960
A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.

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