On Trial
Season 1
196010 episodes
Episodes
- E1
Sir Roger Casement
1960-07-08
Once a national hero in Britain, Sir Roger Casement, an Irishman, is tried for treason during the First World War.
- E2
The Baccarat Scandal
1960-07-15
An account of the notorious "Tranby Croft affair", which threatened to envelop the Prince of Wales in a gambling scandal.
- E3
Admiral Byng
1960-07-22
After the fall of Minorca, a British admiral is tried for cowardice.
- E4
Spencer Cowper
1960-07-29
A seventeenth-century lawyer is tried for the murder of a Quaker woman.
- E5
Oscar Wilde
1960-08-05
The controversial writer Oscar Wilde is tried for gross indecency after his libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry has failed.
- E6
The Dilke Case
1960-08-12
An eminent Victorian political figure is involved in a sex scandal.
- E7
The Tichborne Case
1960-08-19
A man is accused of impersonating an aristocrat to gain his fortune.
- E8
W.T. Stead
1960-08-26
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.
- E9
Governor Wall
1960-09-02
An Irishman is, after serving as a governor in an African colony, accused of two murders when he returns to Britain.
- E10
Horatio Bottomley, MP
1960-09-09
A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.