On Trial
Season 1
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Network: ITV Granada
Season aired: 1960-07-08
Overview
A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
Episodes · 10
Sir Roger Casement
Once a national hero in Britain, Sir Roger Casement, an Irishman, is tried for treason during the First World War.
The Baccarat Scandal
An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.
Admiral Byng
After the fall of Minorca, a British admiral is tried for cowardice.
Spencer Cowper
A seventeenth-century lawyer is tried for the murder of a Quaker woman.
Oscar Wilde
The controversial writer Oscar Wilde is tried for gross indecency after his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has failed.
The Dilke Case
An eminent Victorian political figure is involved in a sex scandal.
The Tichborne Case
A man is accused of impersonating an aristocrat to gain his fortune.
W.T. Stead
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.
Governor Wall
An Irishman is, after serving as a governor in an African colony, accused of two murders when he returns to Britain.
Horatio Bottomley, MP
A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.
