Crown Court : Summaries

Crown Court : Summaries

Season 2, Episode 64: Settling a Score

Original Air Date—30 May 1973
Fulchester United's star striker Arnie Campbell's career is over following a foul by Porthampton City's hard-man defender John 'Chopper' Bates. Bates denies making the foul challenge and claims that one of Campbell's own team-mates was responsible. Did Campbell's own team-mate deliberately injure him after discovering that Campbell was taking bribes from a local bookmaker to 'throw' matches. The court will hear that bribery, betting scams and corruption have become a common feature of modern professional football.

Season 3, Episode 16: Flight of the Lapwing

Original Air Date—6 February 1974
After surviving the crash of a light aircraft in which two passengers were killed, the pilot of the aircraft is suing a relative of one of the victims for libel. The relative claimed in a newspaper article that the pilot was medically unfit to fly the aircraft and may also have been attempting to commit suicide by deliberately crashing the plane. He denies the allegation.

Season 2, Episode 31: The Mugging of Arthur Simmons

Original Air Date—14 March 1973
A pensioner is mugged in a dark alley. two young black men are identified as the muggers in a local youth club. However, the defense claims that the identity parade was not carried out according to correct police procedure.

Season 2, Episode 34: Love Thy Neighbour

Original Air Date—21 March 1973
A man is left paralyzed after being shot on his own doorstep following an argument about a betting slip. Two brothers living next door stand accused of attempted murder but claim the gun went off by accident during a scuffle.

 

Crown Court: Regina v Lord

Original Air Date— 25 October 1972

School teacher Helen Lord is accused of grievous bodily harm after she attacks a policeman. She walks into Calderley Police Station and demands to see a senior police officer, Detective Superintendent Brotherton. When the duty constable tells her the Superintendent isn't there, she shouts "I don't believe you" and becomes abusive.

Season 1, Episode 19: The Eleventh Commandment
Linda Michell and Rosemary Clayton are accused of conspiring to steal a dress from a department store.
Original Air Date—22 November 1972

Episode 28: Conspiracy

Original Air Date—1 November 1972

Two figures were seen running away the night an explosion wrecked a printing press - freelancer jounalist Trevor Luckhurst, 29 and 20 year-old student Jill Sawyer. They are accused of "conspiring to cause explosions with persons unknown", but deny the charge.

Season 1, Episode 16: R. v Vennings & Vennings Original Air Date—15 November 1972

Customs men search a motor-cruiserin the Thames and find 200,000pound worth of heroin. The owner's 20 year-old student son - who brought the boat from the continent - claims he knows nothing about it. The boy, Paul Vennings, pleads not guilty to drug charges.

Season 1, Episode 4: Lieberman v Savage

Original Air Date—18 October 1972

This case is over the possesion of a luxury penthouse. Rich property tycoon Emmanuel Lieberman has installed his girlfriend in a penthouse on top of an office block. Lieberman returns unexpectedly from a trip to San Francisco to find his son Mark in the penthouse with his girlfriend Delia. Lieberman takes Delia to the Crown Court to have her turned out of the penthouse.

Who is Benedetto Trovato? 

Original Air Date— 20 December 1972

Wealthy American collector Walter Lander paid 20000 pounds for a masterpiece by Benedetto Trovato, a newly-discovered Venetian painter. But the secretary to the Duc de Severin immediately denounced Lander's picture as a fake, claiming that  the real Trovato was in his master's collection. Lander bought the painting from Alice Starkie, an obscure British painter. Alice stands accused of "obtaining property by deception." 

Crown Court : Doctor's Neglect?

Untransmitted on ITV

Arthur Simpson is involved in a car accident. He is taken to hospital where tests are carried out on his injuries.
Half an hour later he is found bleeding in the street. He is rushed to an operating theatre but dies soon after. His wife is suing the hospital for negligence.

Season 2, Episode 148: Tables of the Heart: 
Original Air Date—19 December 1973
Dr Stephen Saul is a young Australian surgeon charged with manslaughter. It is claimed that during routine heart surgery, he performed a risky heart transplant on patient Eric Maple, who died during the operation. Dr Saul insists that he secured permission to carry out the transplant from the patient before the operation but Mr Maples' wife is adamant that this is not true. Another surgeon at Bellsides hospital claims that Dr Saul only carried out the unnecessary transplant to make a name for himself in the world of surgery.

Season 2, Episode 133: Robin and his Juliet
Air Date—14 November 1973
School teacher Juliet Tomlin is accused of indecently assaulting one of her 15 year old pupils. She denies the charge, but it has come to light that the pupil, named in court only as Robin, recently spent two nights at the house of the teacher. Were the pair conducting an illicit affair, or did they simply become the victims of misplaced playground and staffroom gossip?

Season 2, Episode 46: Theft by Necessity Original Air Date—18 April 1973

Colonel Burton, a retired lawyer, is accused of shoplifting items of food from a supermarket and decides to defend himself. His defence is that he never intended to pay for the food because he had no money,and that necessity made this act lawful.

Season 2, Episode 139: A Message to Ireland 

An acclaimed political author stands accused of the rare crime of 'incitement to disaffection', in other words, encouraging two young soldiers serving in Northen Ireland to dessert the army. 

The prosecution claim that the idea to dessert the army only entered the soldier's minds after reading his book, which criticized the way in which the British Army was behaving in the province.

Season 2, Episode 121: To Suffer a Witch

Original Air Date—17 October 1973

Just minutes before his death through illness, Charles Laker told his doctor that he believed he had been cursed. Adelaide Vincente, the head of a little-known Fulchester witches coven, stands accused of murder. A witness from the medical profession tells the court of a growing belief among doctors that causing death and injury by witchcraft is indeed possible. For some, the trial begins to revive memories of the witchcraft trials of the seventeenth century.

Season 1, Episode 23: A Genial Man: Regina v Bolton Original Air Date—30 November 1972

A town councillor is charged with indecent 

assault on his 18-year-old secretary.

Season 2, Episode 112: Treason: Part 1

Original Air Date—19 September 1973
A Belgian mercenary soldier is charged with treason after leading an uprising in Santa Isabella, a small British dependency. The defense argue that as the accused is not a British national, he owes no allegiance to the Queen and therefore cannot possibly be charged with treason.

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Season 2, Episode 124: Hit and Miss

Original Air Date—24 October 1973
In the village of Chelton, just outside Fulchester, an elderly man is knocked off his bicycle and killed by a speeding green Mercedes convertible. The car is traced to a local wealthy businessman who now needs to explain why the car in question was taken to a local garage for repairs within hours of the incident. The accused denies causing death by dangerous driving. His defense counsel are claiming that the policeman dealing with the case held a grudge against the accused ever since a previous attempt to prosecute him on another matter proved unsuccessful.

Original Air Date—26 September 1973

Season 2, Episode 115: A Stab in the Front

Following an argument at a summer barbecue in Fulchester, a lady guest, Mrs Lawlor, is attacked by the hostess, Mrs Blandford, with a heated kebab skewer. Mrs Blandford stands accused of malicious wounding. The accused claims that she slipped on wet grass as she was serving food and that the injuries were caused by accident. The court will hear that a series of arguments had taken place between the two women over issues such as animal rights and women's liberation during the course of the garden party. It has also become clear in court that the two women were love rivals and were both involved in an affair with the same man, who was also at the barbecue.

Season 3, Episode 1: The Dogs
Original Air Date—2 January 1974
After suspecting that irregular betting patterns had taken place at a greyhound stadium, bookmaker Ronald Charles refused to pay out on a winning betting slip worth over £200,000. A group of men have subsequently been accused of having conspired to cheat the on-track Tote betting system, and Mr Charles, out of thousands of pounds. Barry Deeley leads the prosecution in what is a confusing case for those not familiar with betting procedures.

Season 2, Episode 103: Destruct, Destruct 

Original Air Date—29 August 1973

A 13 year old boy is charged with the murder of his 12 year old pal after suffocating him with a plastic bag. Was there a real intent to harm the boy or did a game they were playing go horribly wrong? The defense will try to prove that the accused boy was not aware of his actions and agree to have the youngster placed under hypnosis in court to prove a point.

Season 3, Episode 4: Further Charges

Original Air Date—9 January 1974

A Fulchester man has pleaded guilty to obtaining money by deception but now faces a more serious charge of arson, which he denies. The latter charge follows a fire at a Fulchester antique shop.

Season 3, Episode 19: Traffic Warden's Daughter

Original Air Date—13 February 1974
Greek shipping magnate Mikkis Lianos is accused of raping Linda Davies, a young woman he met while moored near Fulchester. She insists that he brutally raped her but he argues she consented.

Season 2, Episode 47: The Gilded Cage
Original Air Date—19 April 1973
An estranged wife has accused her husband of rape. The husband denies the charge and claims that his wife has made up the allegation in anger after he refused to increase her maintenance payments.

Season 2, Episode 47: Euthanasia

Original Air Date—9th November 1972 Moira Webb is dying of cancer. Before it was diagnosed, Lawrence, her husband, was having an affair with his secretary, Betty Ashford.  The cancer gets worse and Moira is in great pain. To save his wife further suffering, Lawrence gives her an overdose of morphine and is accused of murder.

Regina v Bryant
Original Air Date—7th November 1972
Harry Bryant is accused of robbery with violence and assault on the police. He sacked his counsel and defends himself. Evidence is given by the bank guards who were robbed of 30,000 pounds. Harry accuses the police of conspiring to falsify evidence against him because of his past criminal record. 

Season 2, Episode 145: Conduct Prejudicial

Original Air Date—12 December 1973

A Royal Air Force squadron leader is accused of spying, a serious charge which carries life imprisonment. After crashing his car, diagrams and scribbled notes relating to a new design of bomb have been discovered in his pocket. Why did he have them? And why was a young Russian lady also in his car?

Season 2, Episode 40: Wise Child

Original Air Date—4 April 1973
A wealthy industrialist who made his fortune in African mining projects has died and left his fortune to his widow and two children. However, an African man has come forward to claim his share of the inheritance by claiming that he is the son of the businessman from a previous, secret marriage to an African lady. Is he genuinely the son, or is he an impostor trying to fraudulently claim money?

Crown Court : "Peanuts" Part 1/3  (Original Air Date: 27 April 1982)
This episode is from Radio Televison Malaysia (RTM) 

Season 3, Episode 130: Immoral Earnings 

Original Air Date—30 October 1974

Dr Paul Napier is charged with living wholly or in part, on the 

immoral earnings of a prostitute.(Lotterby vs Ms Tate)

Season 2, Episode 145: Conduct Prejudicial

Original Air Date—12 December 1973
A Royal Air Force squadron leader is accused of spying, a serious charge which carries life imprisonment. After crashing his car, diagrams and scribbled notes relating to a new design of bomb have been discovered in his pocket. Why did he have them? And why was a young Russian lady also in his car?

Season 2, Episode 145: Conduct Prejudicial

Original Air Date—12 December 1973
A Royal Air Force squadron leader is accused of spying, a serious charge which carries life imprisonment. After crashing his car, diagrams and scribbled notes relating to a new design of bomb have been discovered in his pocket. Why did he have them? And why was a young Russian lady also in his car?

Season 2, Episode 61: A View to Matrimony

Original Air Date—23 May 1973
Archie McNeil is a bigamist. He married three women under Islamic Law in Somalia, where he has business interests, and a further three women in the U.K. Is he just a hopeless romantic? (The press have dubbed him 'The blue-beard of Scotland'). Or did he, as the prosecution claim, marry his wives for financial gain? After being traced by a Private Detective to a hotel room in Scarborough, where he was on honeymoon with wife number six, Mr McNeil must now explain his actions in court.

Episode 37: The Death of Dracula

Original Air Date—28 March 1973

Count Alucard, a Dracula-themed illusionist, is shot dead on stage when a stunt involving a gun goes horribly wrong. His assistant (his wife, Rita) is accused of having tampered with the gun, killing him after discovering yet another of his affairs. did she purposely kill her husband, or was the gun faulty?

Season 2, Episode 106: Public Lives

Original Air Date—5 September 1973
A theatre production company is charged with breaching obscenity laws following the performance of a play at the Fulchester Palace Theatre. The performance, which included nudity and sex acts, led to dozens of complaints being made to the Fulchester echo. The defense insist that the trial cannot continue until the jury has watched a performance of the play. The prosecution insist that reading the script should suffice. The judge has a decision to make on this issue before the trial can proceed.

Season 2, Episode 109: The Thunderbolts Original Air Date—12 September 1973 After previously being convicted of assaulting a police officer, the leader of The Thunderbolts, a local motorcycle gang, has returned to court. He's accusing the policeman of malicious prosecution, claiming that the officer bore a grudge against him after he dated the policeman's daughter. Helen Tate, for the defense, will try to prove the the policeman has been deliberately picking on the motorcyclist ever since.

Season 2, Episode 127: No Spoiling Original Air Date—31 October 1973 A stressed mother is accused of attempting to murder her 14 month old son after he is admitted to Fulchester General Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The mother claims the injuries were sustained when the baby fell down a flight of stairs while she was busy dealing with a leaking washing machine. Charles Lotterby QC, puts the case for the defense, while Helen Tate QC prosecutes.

Season 2, Episode 130: The Age of Leo Trotsky
Original Air Date—7 November 1973
Jack Smith is an aging ex-convict with a string of convictions. He appears to have formed a Fagin-like relationship with a young boy, Leo Trotsky. Together, they are charged with stealing copper piping from a building and also of using this to cause actual bodily harm