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Crown Court Season 1

November. 09,1972

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Crown Court

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

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Crown Court

1972

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.

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Crown Court Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 130 - My Mother Said I Never Should...

First Aired: May. 21,1975

Episode 129 - The Obsession

First Aired: May. 14,1975

Episode 128 - The Healing Hand

First Aired: May. 07,1975

Episode 127 - Light the Blue Touch-Paper

First Aired: April. 30,1975

Episode 126 - Take Back Your Mink

First Aired: April. 16,1975

Episode 125 - The Also Ran

First Aired: April. 09,1975

Episode 124 - Possessed

First Aired: April. 02,1975

Episode 123 - Contempt of Court

First Aired: March. 25,1975

Episode 122 - The Mad, Mad Man

First Aired: March. 19,1975

Episode 121 - Bad Day at Black Cape

First Aired: March. 12,1975

Episode 120 - The Trees

First Aired: March. 05,1975

Episode 119 - Saboteur

First Aired: February. 26,1975

Episode 118 - Who Cares

First Aired: February. 19,1975

Episode 117 - The Murder Monitor

First Aired: February. 12,1975

Episode 116 - Two in the Mind of One

First Aired: February. 05,1975

Episode 115 - The Personator

First Aired: January. 29,1975

Episode 113 - A Difference in Style

First Aired: January. 15,1975

Episode 112 - The Quest

First Aired: January. 08,1975

Episode 109 - Arson

First Aired: December. 04,1974

Episode 108 - Beloved Alien

First Aired: November. 27,1974

Episode 107 - Cover Up

First Aired: November. 20,1974

Episode 106 - The Alb of St. Honoratus

First Aired: November. 13,1974

Episode 105 - Winklers

First Aired: November. 06,1974

Episode 103 - The Messenger Boy

First Aired: October. 16,1974

Episode 100 - On Impulse

First Aired: September. 25,1974

Episode 99 - Strange Past

First Aired: September. 18,1974

Episode 98 - Good and Faithful Friends

First Aired: September. 11,1974

Episode 45 - Destruct, Destruct

First Aired: August. 29,1973

Episode 44 - The Judgement of Soloman

First Aired: August. 22,1973

Episode 43 - Mrs. Moresby's Scrapbook

First Aired: August. 08,1973

Episode 42 - The Night for Country Dancing

First Aired: August. 01,1973

Episode 41 - Beggar on Horseback

First Aired: July. 27,1973

Episode 40 - The Open Invitation

First Aired: July. 18,1973

Episode 39 - The Medium: Regina v Purbeck (3)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 38 - The Medium: Regina v Purbeck (2)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 37 - The Medium: Regina v Purbeck (1)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 36 - Criminal Libel: Regina v Maitland (3)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 35 - Criminal Libel: Regina v Maitland (2)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 34 - Criminal Libel: Regina v Maitland (1)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 33 - Who is Benedetto Trovato? Regina v Starkie (3)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 32 - Who is Benedetto Trovato? Regina v Starkie (2)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 31 - Who is Benedetto Trovato? Regina v Starkie (1)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 30 - Conspiracy: Regina v Luckhurst and Sawyer (3)

First Aired: December. 15,1972

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?

Episode 29 - Conspiracy: Regina v Luckhurst and Sawyer (2)

First Aired: December. 14,1972

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

Episode 28 - Conspiracy: Regina v Luckhurst and Sawyer (1)

First Aired: December. 13,1972

Episode 27 - Espionage (3)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 26 - Espionage (2)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 25 - Espionage (1)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 24 - A Genial Man: Regina v Bolton (3)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 23 - A Genial Man: Regina v Bolton (2)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 22 - A Genial Man: Regina v Bolton (1)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 21 - The Eleventh Commandment (3)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 20 - The Eleventh Commandment (2)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 19 - The Eleventh Commandment (1)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 18 - Regina v Vennings & Vennings (3)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 17 - Regina v Vennings & Vennings (2)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 16 - Regina v Vennings & Vennings (1)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 15 - Euthanasia: Regina v Webb (3)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 14 - Euthanasia: Regina v Webb (2)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 13 - Euthanasia: Regina v Webb (1)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 12 - Regina v Bryant (3)

First Aired: March. 11,1972

Episode 11 - Regina v Bryant (2)

First Aired: February. 11,1972

Episode 10 - Regina v Bryant (1)

First Aired: January. 11,1972

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.

Episode 9 - Regina v Lord (3)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 8 - Regina v Lord (2)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 7 - Regina v Lord (1)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

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.

Episode 6 - Liberman v Savage (3)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 5 - Liberman v Savage (2)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 4 - Liberman v Savage (1)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

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?

Episode 3 - Doctor's Neglect? (3)

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 2 - Doctor's Neglect? (2)

First Aired: December. 10,1972

Episode 1 - Doctor's Neglect? (1)

First Aired: November. 10,1972

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.