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Series

On Trial

1960 · 1 season · 10 episodes · Ended · ITV Granada

Crime, Drama

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

Episodes

  • S01E01Sir Roger Casement1960-07-08

    Once a national hero in Britain, Sir Roger Casement, an Irishman, is tried for treason during the First World War.

  • S01E02The Baccarat Scandal1960-07-15

    An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.

  • S01E03Admiral Byng1960-07-22

    After the fall of Minorca, a British admiral is tried for cowardice.

  • S01E04Spencer Cowper1960-07-29

    A seventeenth-century lawyer is tried for the murder of a Quaker woman.

  • S01E05Oscar Wilde1960-08-05

    The controversial writer Oscar Wilde is tried for gross indecency after his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has failed.

  • S01E06The Dilke Case1960-08-12

    An eminent Victorian political figure is involved in a sex scandal.

  • S01E07The Tichborne Case1960-08-19

    A man is accused of impersonating an aristocrat to gain his fortune.

  • S01E08W.T. Stead1960-08-26

    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.

  • S01E09Governor Wall1960-09-02

    An Irishman is, after serving as a governor in an African colony, accused of two murders when he returns to Britain.

  • S01E10Horatio Bottomley, MP1960-09-09

    A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.

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