Crown Court 52 years old
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984. A court case in the crown court of the fictional town of Fulchester would typically be played out over three afternoons in half-hour episodes and the most frequent format was for the prosecution case to be presented in the first two episodes and the defence in the third, although there were some later, brief variations. Although those involved in the case were actors, the jury was made up of members of the general public from the immediate Granada Television franchise area taken from the electoral register and eligible for real jury service: it was this jury alone which decided the verdict. Indeed, production publicity of the time stated that, for many of the scripts, two endings were written and rehearsed to cope with the jury's independent decision which was delivered for the first time, as in a real court case, when the foreman was asked by the actor playing the judge, while the programme's recording progressed. However, the course of some cases would lead the jury being directed to return "not guilty" verdicts.
Credits
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Tony Doyle He was 14 , 41 years old when he died | |
| Donald Sumpter He was 29 , now 81 years old | |
| Doreen Mantle She was 42 , now 94 years old | |
| Jacob Witkin He was 34 , 78 years old when he died | |
| Patrick Ward He was 22 , 69 years old when he died | |
| Bob Hoskins He was 29 , 71 years old when he died | |
| Tony Haygarth He was 27 , 72 years old when he died | |
| Patrick Troughton He was 52 , 67 years old when he died | |
| Maureen Lipman She was 26 , now 78 years old | |
| Peter Graves He was 46 , 83 years old when he died | |
| Edward Hardwicke He was 40 , 78 years old when he died | |
| Richard Griffiths He was 25 , 65 years old when he died | |
| Kenneth Cranham He was 27 , now 80 years old | |
| Tom Conti He was 30 , now 83 years old | |
| Aubrey Morris He was 46 , 89 years old when he died | |
| Warren Clarke He was 25 , 67 years old when he died | |
| David Calder He was 26 , now 78 years old | |
| David Savile | |
| Geoffrey Toone He was 61 , 94 years old when he died | |
| Paul Freeman He was 29 , now 81 years old | |
| Liz Smith She was 50 , 95 years old when she died | |
| Windsor Davies He was 42 , 88 years old when he died | |
| Conrad Phillips He was 47 , 90 years old when he died | |
| Roger Lloyd Pack He was 28 , 69 years old when he died | |
| David Troughton He was 22 , now 74 years old | |
| Graham Crowden He was 49 , 87 years old when he died | |
| Nick Tate He was 30 , now 82 years old | |
| Kathleen Byron She was 51 , 88 years old when she died | |
| Hermione Baddeley She was 65 , 79 years old when she died | |
| Victor Maddern He was 44 , 65 years old when he died | |
| Duncan Lamont He was 54 , 60 years old when he died | |
| Ronald Lewis He was 43 , 53 years old when he died | |
| Michael Sheard He was 34 , 67 years old when he died | |
| Ian McCulloch He was 13 , now 65 years old | |
| Judy Loe She was 25 , now 77 years old | as Marianne Miller |
| Jack Shepherd He was 31 , now 84 years old | |
| James Cossins He was 38 , 63 years old when he died | |
| Patrick Newell He was 40 , 56 years old when he died | |
| June Ritchie She was 34 , now 86 years old | as Mrs Alison Freeman |
| Marianne Stone She was 50 , 87 years old when she died | |
| Patricia Cutts She was 46 , 48 years old when she died | |
| Don Henderson He was 39 , 64 years old when he died | |
| Maria Aitken She was 27 , now 79 years old | |
| Peter Sallis He was 51 , 96 years old when he died | |
| William Fox He was 93 , 73 years old when he died | |
| Mark Dignam He was 63 , 80 years old when he died | |
| John Franklyn-Robbins He was 47 , 84 years old when he died | |
| Thomas Heathcote He was 55 , 68 years old when he died | |
| James Laurenson He was 32 , now 84 years old | |
| Pat Heywood She was 41 , now 93 years old |
Crew
| Name | Job title |
|---|---|
| Howard Baker Production He was 46 , 67 years old when he died | Producer |
Crown Court (52 years)
Ended
- First Air Date: 1972-10-11
- Runtime: [23,60,30] minutes
- Number of Episodes: 147