CrimeDrama

On Trial

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First Aired:July 8, 1960

Seasons:1 season

Episodes:10

Status:Ended

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

Seasons & Episodes

E1Sir Roger Casement

Jul 8, 1960

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

E2The Baccarat Scandal

Jul 15, 1960

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

E3Admiral Byng

Jul 22, 1960

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

E4Spencer Cowper

Jul 29, 1960

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

E5Oscar Wilde

Aug 5, 1960

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

E6The Dilke Case

Aug 12, 1960

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

E7The Tichborne Case

Aug 19, 1960

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

E8W.T. Stead

Aug 26, 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.

E9Governor Wall

Sep 2, 1960

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

E10Horatio Bottomley, MP

Sep 9, 1960

A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.

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