A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
7/8/1960
Once a national hero in Britain, Sir Roger Casement, an Irishman, is tried for treason during the First World War.
7/15/1960
An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.
7/22/1960
After the fall of Minorca, a British admiral is tried for cowardice.
7/29/1960
A seventeenth-century lawyer is tried for the murder of a Quaker woman.
8/5/1960
The controversial writer Oscar Wilde is tried for gross indecency after his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has failed.
8/12/1960
An eminent Victorian political figure is involved in a sex scandal.
8/19/1960
A man is accused of impersonating an aristocrat to gain his fortune.
8/26/1960
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.
9/2/1960
An Irishman is, after serving as a governor in an African colony, accused of two murders when he returns to Britain.
9/9/1960
A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.
