Crown Court

S1984 · E1 · Jan 3, 1984

Gingerbread Girl (1) Episode 1

Wendy Grant agreed to bear a baby for the Breakspears, a childless couple, for £6500, an agreement illegal in English Law. The baby, Anna, was born with a serious but treatable heart defect, and the Breakspears withdrew from the deal. Anna was then left outside their house before dawn on a cold morning; she suffered exposure and died. Mrs. Grant is now charged with murder, the prosecution claiming that she abandoned the child knowing she would come to serious harm or die.

S1984 · E2 · Jan 4, 1984

Gingerbread Girl (2) Episode 2

S1984 · E3 · Jan 5, 1984

Gingerbread Girl (3) Episode 3

S1984 · E4 · Jan 10, 1984

Oddball (1) Episode 4

S1984 · E5 · Jan 11, 1984

Oddball (2) Episode 5

S1984 · E6 · Jan 12, 1984

Oddball (3) Episode 6

S1984 · E7 · Jan 17, 1984

The Son of His Father (1) Episode 7

Mary Ginsel stands accused of blackmailing her local MP Sir Roland Richardson. The Prosecution allege that Miss Ginsel falsely accused Sir Roland, whom she met at her philately society, of being the father of her young son and then threatened to expose him to the press if he did not pay her maintenance. Miss Ginsel admits that she asked him for money but says this was justified because he was the father of her child and that she made no threats towards him.

S1984 · E8 · Jan 18, 1984

The Son of His Father (2) Episode 8

S1984 · E9 · Jan 19, 1984

The Son of His Father (3) Episode 9

S1984 · E10 · Jan 24, 1984

Whisper Who Dares (1) Episode 10

Ministry of Defence worker Joseph Guilfoyle and journalist Robert McBride are jointly charged with offences under the Official Secrets Act. The Prosecution claim that Guilfoyle removed a file from the Huckstone Edge research centre where he worked and passed it to McBride who then published details in the radical magazine "The Outsider". They claim that McBride is a communist agent working for Polish intelligence.

S1984 · E11 · Jan 25, 1984

Whisper Who Dares (2) Episode 11

S1984 · E12 · Jan 26, 1984

Whisper Who Dares (3) Episode 12

S1984 · E13 · Jan 31, 1984

Citizens (1) Episode 13

Joseph Kiernan, a scrap metal dealer from a traveller background, is accused of the theft of a copper cylinder from the shed of Ronald Sibley. The Prosecution say that Kiernan was seen after midnight in the garden of Mr. Sibley and the next morning was seen by a police officer hiding the cylinder under his lorry. Kiernan does not deny handling the cylinder or being in Mr. Sibley's garden but says the cylinder was planted to incriminate him and he was simply retrieving it - the case against him is motivated by hostility towards travellers.

S1984 · E14 · Feb 1, 1984

Citizens (2) Episode 14

S1984 · E15 · Feb 2, 1984

Citizens (3) Episode 15

S1984 · E16 · Feb 7, 1984

Dirty Washing (1) Episode 16

S1984 · E17 · Feb 8, 1984

Dirty Washing (2) Episode 17

S1984 · E18 · Feb 9, 1984

Dirty Washing (3) Episode 18

S1984 · E19 · Feb 13, 1984

Her Father's Daughter (1) Episode 19

S1984 · E20 · Feb 15, 1984

Her Father's Daughter (2) Episode 20

S1984 · E21 · Feb 16, 1984

Her Father's Daughter (3) Episode 21

S1984 · E22 · Feb 21, 1984

There Was An Old Woman (1) Episode 22

Alice Atha died at the age of 73. A post mortem revealed signs of emaciation and tuberculous meningitis. Her daughter Grace Barber and son-in-law Harry Barber are accused of her manslaughter through neglect. They allege that the couple were indifferent to her welfare, leading to her starvation which triggered the meningitis for which they failed to seek medical help.

S1984 · E23 · Feb 22, 1984

There Was An Old Woman (2) Episode 23

S1984 · E24 · Feb 23, 1984

There Was An Old Woman (3) Episode 24

S1984 · E25 · Feb 28, 1984

Burnt Futures (1) Episode 25

Sixth former Sam Tait signed a confession to police admitting that he set fire to his school. He has now retracted that statement and asserts that he was pressurised by police into admitting arson. The prosecution argue that Tait has a long record of disobedience and disaffection at school and his school file shows him as having been punished for starting a fire two years earlier. However he denies the offence and says he has an alibi that he had been in a lesson until moments before the fire.

S1984 · E26 · Feb 29, 1984

Burnt Futures (2) Episode 26

S1984 · E27 · Mar 1, 1984

Burnt Futures (3) Episode 27

S1984 · E28 · Mar 6, 1984

Mother Figures (1) Episode 28

Antiques dealer Stephen Hodges is accused of assault causing actual bodily harm against Jacqueline Coombes, the estranged wife of his partner Andrew Coombes. He is accused of striking her following an argument when she came round to visit Mr. Coombes. Hodges denies the charge and says he didn't hit Mrs. Coombes. The defence accept that she was injured but that she sustained the injuries falling outside.

S1984 · E29 · Mar 7, 1984

Mother Figures (2) Episode 29

S1984 · E30 · Mar 8, 1984

Mother Figures (3) Episode 30

S1984 · E31 · Mar 13, 1984

Big Deal (1) Episode 31

S1984 · E32 · Mar 14, 1984

Big Deal (2) Episode 32

S1984 · E33 · Mar 15, 1984

Big Deal (3) Episode 33

S1984 · E34 · Mar 20, 1984

Love and War (1) Episode 34

An unusual relationship developed between arms dealer Russell Steadman and CND campaigner and feminist Hilary Rogers. She now has a strong antipathy towards him. Indeed she has accused him of deliberately driving his car at her causing her serious injuries. He is now on trial facing the charge of grievous bodily harm. He does not deny he struck her in his car but insists the incident was entirely accidental, resulting from poor visibility on the night in question when she was wearing dark clothing and moved into his path.

S1984 · E35 · Mar 22, 1984

Love and War (2) Episode 35

S1984 · E36 · Mar 23, 1984

Love and War (3) Episode 36

S1984 · E37 · Mar 27, 1984

Paki Basher (1) Episode 37

S1984 · E38 · Mar 28, 1984

Paki Basher (2) Episode 38

S1984 · E39 · Mar 29, 1984

Paki Basher (3) Episode 39