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