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    TV Series

    On Trial

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    1960 - 1960
    Ended
    Seasons: 1
    Episodes: 10

    A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.

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    Seasons & Episodes

    1. Sir Roger Casement

    Once a national hero in Britain, Sir Roger Casement, an Irishman, is tried for treason during the First World War.

    7/8/1960

    2. The Baccarat Scandal

    An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.

    7/15/1960

    3. Admiral Byng

    After the fall of Minorca, a British admiral is tried for cowardice.

    7/22/1960

    4. Spencer Cowper

    A seventeenth-century lawyer is tried for the murder of a Quaker woman.

    7/29/1960

    5. Oscar Wilde

    The controversial writer Oscar Wilde is tried for gross indecency after his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has failed.

    8/5/1960

    6. The Dilke Case

    An eminent Victorian political figure is involved in a sex scandal.

    8/12/1960

    7. The Tichborne Case

    A man is accused of impersonating an aristocrat to gain his fortune.

    8/19/1960

    8. 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.

    8/26/1960

    9. Governor Wall

    An Irishman is, after serving as a governor in an African colony, accused of two murders when he returns to Britain.

    9/2/1960

    10. Horatio Bottomley, MP

    A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.

    9/9/1960