On Trial

Season 1

10 episodes · Jul 8, 1960

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  • S1E1

    Sir Roger Casement

    Jul 8, 1960

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

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  • S1E2

    The Baccarat Scandal

    Jul 15, 1960

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

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  • S1E3

    Admiral Byng

    Jul 22, 1960

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

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  • S1E4

    Spencer Cowper

    Jul 29, 1960

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

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  • S1E5

    Oscar Wilde

    Aug 5, 1960

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

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  • S1E6

    The Dilke Case

    Aug 12, 1960

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

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  • S1E7

    The Tichborne Case

    Aug 19, 1960

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

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  • S1E8

    W.T. Stead

    Aug 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.

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  • S1E9

    Governor Wall

    Sep 2, 1960

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

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  • S1E10

    Horatio Bottomley, MP

    Sep 9, 1960

    A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.

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