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Crown Court

Season 1 1972 - 1973
TV-PG

  • 1972-10-10T23:00:00Z on ITV
  • 25m
  • 18h 30m (42 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
Courtroom drama, each case takes three episodes. At the end of the third episode, a jury of "ordinary people" comes to a verdict on the evidence presented.

45 episodes

Series Premiere

1972-10-10T23:00:00Z

1x01 Doctor's Neglect? (1)

Series Premiere

1x01 Doctor's Neglect? (1)

  • 1972-10-10T23:00:00Z30m

Mr Simpson was admitted to hospital following a car crash in Fulchester. He was examined by doctors and treated for minor injuries before being discharged. Moments later, Mr Simpson collapsed on the forecourt of the hospital and was rushed back inside for emergency brain surgery, from which he died. His widow Mrs Simpson is suing the hospital for neglect, claiming that the doctors who initially treated her husband missed the injury.

1972-10-11T23:00:00Z

1x02 Doctor's Neglect? (2)

1x02 Doctor's Neglect? (2)

  • 1972-10-11T23:00:00Z30m

1972-10-12T23:00:00Z

1x03 Doctor's Neglect? (3)

1x03 Doctor's Neglect? (3)

  • 1972-10-12T23:00:00Z30m

1972-10-17T23:00:00Z

1x04 Liberman v Savage (1)

1x04 Liberman v Savage (1)

  • 1972-10-17T23:00:00Z30m

Wealthy Property developer Emmanuel Lieberman is trying to evict his former fiancé Delia Savage from an exclusive penthouse apartment overlooking London's Green Park. He claims that he merely allowed her to live in the apartment until they were married, but Ms Savage insists that Mr Lieberman gave her the property as an engagement gift. Mr Lieberman says the engagement was called off when he discovered his own son naked with Ms Savage when he returned home unexpectedly from a trip to San Francisco. Did he really give the apartment as a gift? Or is he simply trying to recover the prestigious property in order to sell it on at huge profit?

1972-10-18T23:00:00Z

1x05 Liberman v Savage (2)

1x05 Liberman v Savage (2)

  • 1972-10-18T23:00:00Z30m

1972-10-19T23:00:00Z

1x06 Liberman v Savage (3)

1x06 Liberman v Savage (3)

  • 1972-10-19T23:00:00Z30m

1972-10-24T23:00:00Z

1x07 Regina v Lord (1)

1x07 Regina v Lord (1)

  • 1972-10-24T23:00:00Z30m

Helen Lord, a maths teacher at Fulchester's John Fordhurst secondary school, is accused of wounding a police officer with a chisel. The court will hear that Miss Lord went to Calderley police station to speak to Detective Bretherton about the contents of a letter which he had sent to the headmistress of the school, advising her that Miss Lord was not suitable to work with children. When she was denied access to Detective Bretherton, she 'went berserk' and attacked the desk sergeant. The decision of the headmistress to employ Miss Lord without checking references is also being brought into question.

1972-10-25T23:00:00Z

1x08 Regina v Lord (2)

1x08 Regina v Lord (2)

  • 1972-10-25T23:00:00Z30m

1972-10-26T23:00:00Z

1x09 Regina v Lord (3)

1x09 Regina v Lord (3)

  • 1972-10-26T23:00:00Z30m

1972-11-01T00:00:00Z

1x10 Regina v Bryant (1)

1x10 Regina v Bryant (1)

  • 1972-11-01T00:00:00Z25m

Following an armed raid by four masked men on a Fulchester bank in which £30,000 was stolen, local villain Harry Bryant was identified as one of the robbers. In court, he decides to sack his defence team at the start of the trial and defend himself. He bases his defence on unreliable identification and on the fact that due to his criminal background, the police are determined to 'fit him up' for a crime that he did not commit.

1972-11-02T00:00:00Z

1x11 Regina v Bryant (2)

1x11 Regina v Bryant (2)

  • 1972-11-02T00:00:00Z30m

1972-11-03T00:00:00Z

1x12 Regina v Bryant (3)

1x12 Regina v Bryant (3)

  • 1972-11-03T00:00:00Z30m

1x13 Euthanasia: Regina v Webb (1)

  • 1972-11-08T00:00:00Z30m

Did Lawrence Webb murder his cancer - stricken wife Moira by giving her an overdose of morphine? Was the overdose taken accidentally? Was Moira Webb's death the result of a 'mercy killing' or an 'assisted suicide'? The jury will have to consider some emotive issues before reaching their verdict.

1x14 Euthanasia: Regina v Webb (2)

  • 1972-11-09T00:00:00Z25m

1x15 Euthanasia: Regina v Webb (3)

  • 1972-11-10T00:00:00Z25m

A father and son are charged with attempting to smuggle a huge amount of heroin into the country. The drugs were discovered during a search of the vessel on the River Thames after it arrived from France. The couple claim they knew nothing about the heroin on their boat.

1x19 The Eleventh Commandment (1)

  • 1972-11-22T00:00:00Z25m

Two friends, Linda Mitchell and Rosemary Clayton, are accused of conspiring to shoplift a dress from Hombards Boutique in Fulchester. A store detective claims that Mitchell tried on four dresses in the changing rooms but emerged with only three. Ms Clayton, it is claimed, tried to cause a distraction when Mitchell was challenged about the missing dress by claiming that her purse had been stolen. The store detective claims to have seen the two women put the stolen dress into their car, hidden beneath a raincoat, before Clayton drove away.

1x20 The Eleventh Commandment (2)

  • 1972-11-23T00:00:00Z25m

1x21 The Eleventh Commandment (3)

  • 1972-11-24T00:00:00Z25m

Mr Bolton, an eminent Fulchester Councillor, is accused of indecent assault. It is alleged that he fondled the breasts of his 18 year old secretary Gillian Heyes in his offices when she was called in to take down dictation from the Coucillor. The court will hear that the incident was witnessed by another employee who had entered the office while the assault was taking place. Barry Deeley QC leads the defence. His team will suggest that Miss Heyes' family have held a grudge against the Councillor since an application to sub-let their property was rejected.

1972-12-06T00:00:00Z

1x25 Espionage (1)

1x25 Espionage (1)

  • 1972-12-06T00:00:00Z25m

Foreign Office employee Margaret Terson took top secret documents back to her home while she was dating East German businessman Hans Muller. The prosecution claim that Muller, a communist, was a spy. Miss Terson, who had been under police surveillance during her dalliance with Muller, is now accused of breaching the official secrets Act.

1972-12-07T00:00:00Z

1x26 Espionage (2)

1x26 Espionage (2)

  • 1972-12-07T00:00:00Z25m

1972-12-08T00:00:00Z

1x27 Espionage (3)

1x27 Espionage (3)

  • 1972-12-08T00:00:00Z25m

A radical young journalist and his student girlfriend are accused of conspiring to cause an explosion which rocked the offices of a local company. The prosecution is based on two pieces of evidence found at the couple's flat during a raid - a pair of plimsolls containing fragments of glass matching the glass at the company's offices, and letters written by the couple suggesting that the premises should be attacked.

One of the accused, Trevor Luckhurst, takes the witness stand, but his behaviour doesn't help his case.

In his summing up, the defence barrister James Elliot QC accuses the night watchman of extreme anti-left wing bias. Could this save the young couple?

Art collector Walter Lander purchased an extremely valuable painting from British collector Alice Starkie. When he announced his purchase to the art world, another collector came forward to claim that he has had the original painting for several years, and that Lander's purchase must be a fake. Alice Starkie is charged with obtaining money by deception, but claims she sold the painting in good faith, believing it to be the original. Is she telling the truth?

Roddy Maitland, the rising if temperamental star of British tennis, stormed off court during a Wimbledon semi-final. He then drove up to Fulchester to confront Dr. Holt-Matthews, the father of his pregnant girlfriend Gail. On being told that that her pregnancy was now over he attempted suicide in a hotel room by slashing his wrists. However it is Maitland who is now on trial for criminal libel after writing a letter in which the Prosecution allege he maliciously and falsely claimed the doctor to be "an abortionist" and "a murderer". The Defence case is that Dr. Holt-Matthews's callous attitude led him to such a conclusion and that there is no proof Gail had a genuine miscarriage.

1973-07-17T23:00:00Z

1x40 The Open Invitation

1x40 The Open Invitation

  • 1973-07-17T23:00:00Z25m

1973-07-26T23:00:00Z

1x41 Beggar on Horseback

1x41 Beggar on Horseback

  • 1973-07-26T23:00:00Z25m

1x42 The Night for Country Dancing

  • 1973-07-31T23:00:00Z25m

1973-08-07T23:00:00Z

1x43 Mrs. Moresby's Scrapbook

1x43 Mrs. Moresby's Scrapbook

  • 1973-08-07T23:00:00Z25m

1973-08-21T23:00:00Z

1x44 The Judgement of Soloman

1x44 The Judgement of Soloman

  • 1973-08-21T23:00:00Z25m

1973-08-28T23:00:00Z

1x45 Destruct, Destruct

1x45 Destruct, Destruct

  • 1973-08-28T23:00:00Z25m
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