I'm sorry for your loss. Condolences. I know it's a while ago but my good friend died in 83 and I still miss him lots often. He had great A level grades and was waiting to go to law school. Then he died during military training.
I've watched a few episodes so far and every one has been great 'television'. Many thanks for taking the time and trouble to upload this fine programme
Glad you're enjoying CC, Senza Nome. :) If you haven't already seen them, "Hunger Strike", "Honour Thy Father" and "To Love, Cherish and Batter?" are particularly good.
These episode's are very good. Even though they are from many year's ago. Thank you for uploading these. They are very interesting to watch. PC. 18. 03. 2023.
Many thanks Jez T. I watched a number of eps of CC as a teenager back in the 70s. Don't recall this particular one however. This was a rare occasion when I correctly guessed what the jury's verdict would be.
it was great magical days that I remember them to be, television played a huge part of my childhood in the 70s, Mr ben, bod, schools and colleges television, I loved being a child in the 70s and early 80s
cc was far too good for its original afrernoon slot. most of us were either at school or at work. if ever I was off sick, I would watch and enjoy the drama. its good that you have taken the trouble to upload, as I can now see the full episodes jez, thank you.
Crown Court did air in prime time on occasions. Usually the episodes were combined into one 90 minute episode. It did not happen often, but they did experiment with it.
@@johnking5174 One season in the summertime of 1975 aired on Saturday nights around 8 pm or so - didn’t last long - the ones that have a title sequence that features a posh car leaving a posh house in a location said to be Stockport and driving along some roads are from that season!
Some familiar and unfamiliar faces and what a wealth and depth of actors. The casting was uniformly high. Crown Court is slower paced as matches dramas of the time but it still can stand up to scrutiny. Not all the crimes were pleasant, and actors played characters that nowadays would have social media in uproar, I’m thinking particularly of Frank Windsor in Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother from 1979. One of the darker and murkier story lines. As an aside, didn’t Sheila Gish look terribly young? I saw her in Company several years later. She was really good, an actress with stage presence.
I'm not altogether certain I can think of any "pleasant" crimes, but maybe I need to get out more. RIP Sheila Gish, who certainly suffered something unpleasant.
If Crown Court was shown in the afternoon it explains why I didn't get to watch any of these episodes. I would have been at work. Good to catch up with them now 😀
There was a brief interregnum where it was shown on Saturday nights in the summer - not repeats - but it reverted back to being an afternoon programme after that! Despite being an afternoon drama, it did contain some colourful language at times! In an era where car chases, gunplay, sex, violence and bad language pervaded most evening TV dramas, Crown Court lacked all those - although some colourful language could be heard, usually as quotations - any offence committed happened prior to the trial!
Happy Days of really good television, days when actors didn’t whisper and end credits rolled slowly and theme tunes played with real instruments. ‘Crown Court’, ‘Farmhouse Kitchen’, ‘Play School’, Emmerdale Farm’, ‘Crossroads’ to name a few of the great tv shows.
The actor playing the defendant starred in The Long Good Friday, a 1979 film. In another century, Mr. Adam and Mr. White (aka Killer) would have been sent off to prison in Australia, as they would have been deemed beyond redemption.
haha. too funny. i used to sniff aftershave. which would make my eyes water. tell my mum i had a cold. get to stay home. only to be bored with grown up tv. not to mention my mum would catch on and make me go to school for the afternoon.
Norman Mitchell as the copper - for once in mufti and not some sort of uniform - he usually plays milkmen or postmen or security guards or uniformed policemen! I didn’t use no knife! Double negative - that’s a positive! He did use a knife! Admission of guilt!
I guess it's my memory at fault but I remember this series but thought it was a 5 part series with the "verdict" on a Friday - I was only 5 or 6 yrs old and newish to England, born in England, moved to Ireland at 2 months old and returned when I was around 5 yrs - long emotive story.
Unlike a lot of my fellow commenters I did NOT watch CC with my mum (who would have been at work) or any other family members, I watched it on my own while truanting from school or with friends who were truanting. Happy days!!!
I don't see the point of the jury being "unscripted" people off the street when the Defence & Prosecution scripting are inevitably skewed to get the obvious criminal found "not guilty"
I vividly remember one of these episodes where a young girl fell into flashing lights at a disco and was badly disfigured. Does anyone know if it’s on here anywhere?
Personally (I am now 63), perhaps we were given far too much freedom at too young an age, enabling childish behaviour to be acted out in the outside world, rather than at home where such would normally be corrected by the parents (or at school). Parallel to this, lax parenting including the breakdown of traditional family life during the 60’s and 70’s accelerated until today’s experience of drinking and drug taking youth of both sexes well out of control. Liberal policies have conspired to destroy modern civilisation, with no personal responsibilities recognised or even desired by just about everybody. Even the authorities are corrupted by freedom to do what is right in their own eyes. And there’s no way back.
addicted to murder mysteries, psychological. stories & similar related books etc SO am able to now with UTube & other outlets manage to view sentanceing from different countries .My homeland is still much kinder than others in this especially sentanceing in USA Am not sure quite where I end up because am only to aware of the fear I felt as a teenager buying chips with friends on way home from Stables.. Terrified with no one who felt differently and so where are those bullies niw
One thing that does annoy me though and they wouldn't get away with it now (possibly why it is no longer filmed, apart from costs and viewing figures) is the fact that the "jury" is from the members of the public....except 1 = the jury foreman was always an actress or actor - equity rules, yet misleading info! ... Otherwise an excellent watchable series that NEEDS repeating if not continued. Good writing, great stories (sometimes a little OTT) and a great cast, many of whom went onto to bigger things yet sadly some died too young.
Glad you’re enjoying CC! Not sure how true it was, but I’m sure I heard that the jury foreman had to be on the local electoral register AND a member of Equity. So technically, it’s not misleading: however, you never see the foreman until the last minute and even then sometimes it’s someone recognisable like Bernard Hill or Nick Stringer, which can sometimes take you out of the story. So I completely get where you’re coming from! 👍
I understand what you are saying. Nevertheless, only the foreman being an actor wouldn't necessarily sway the verdict of the jury which were members of the public. Unless of course, it was X against 1, but in those instances I am sure that the foreman(actor) was instructed to vote according to the wishes of the jury. It was as real as they could possibly get it without filming an actual case in court. This programme also highlighted the dangers of a wrongful conviction by jury. For this reason, I am firmly against the death penalty and is the only verdict that cannot be reversed. A court case is very much dependent on the information provided and whilst the system and those involved strive to put forward the facts as best they can, the truth of the matter is that any court will never be in possession of the whole truth.
I hate to bring the mention of the following but it might do good for anybody. But first things first, when going for a knife never up if you were among your household.. ever .. you do not know who might come thrushing into your area where you’re standing. Holding it up might harm anyone rushing by you or harm yourself trying to get it away by acting fast in split seconds not holding against yourself properly. I always caution my son when he’s close to me busy washing and I’m about to grab a knife for safety. I learned doing because there was a tragic domestic accident when a mother asked her teen daughter to bring her a knife from the kitchen to chop sonething she was working on in the living room.. and she went to bring the knife not knowing that her younger brother followed her thrushing into the kitchen.. no need to tell you more you already had it imagined. So, handle things safely .. for what its worth being careful is a thousand times better than being sorry. As for the case here, he unfortunately did it But unintentionally.. meaning it was a moment of defending oneself without the awareness of doing it .. like when someone waves a hand towards your face and you suddenly and consciously act upon that gesture thinking a slap was coming to you.. and the biggest mistake was him not acting properly after the accident, meaning helping the victim by calling an ambulance, nor even returning back to see what’s happened and if he could still be of any help which would have showed his good intentions to court, showing a little care and concern on his part as a good boy would, and not even bringing up the subject to his parent to see what could be done about it! Therefore, he must be punished for his actions but not hang 😬 because of the lack of intention!
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Life imitating art ? Not long after this was filmed One men in back row of jury was my step father , he seriously assaulted my late mother one day , and then did a runner , neither she or I ever saw him again .
I can remember watching this when I was off school sick, with my dear MUM!, I'm sick now and I'm still watching it at 64 years old
For some reason the music at the end starts to make me feel tearful a little bit. Makes me think of my lovely Mum who passed away in July 2017.
I'm sorry for your loss. Condolences. I know it's a while ago but my good friend died in 83 and I still miss him lots often. He had great A level grades and was waiting to go to law school. Then he died during military training.
I've only esently come across these eps and now I'm hooked again 😮
Thank-you for uploading..cheers mate..
I've watched a few episodes so far and every one has been great 'television'. Many thanks for taking the time and trouble to upload this fine programme
Glad you're enjoying CC, Senza Nome. :) If you haven't already seen them, "Hunger Strike", "Honour Thy Father" and "To Love, Cherish and Batter?" are particularly good.
Quality...thank you for uploading
Always remember this when I was off school. The verdict usually came on a Thursday
Wonderful Norman Mitchell
These episode's are very good. Even though they are from many year's ago. Thank you for uploading these. They are very interesting to watch. PC. 18. 03. 2023.
Don't you mean ...because they are from many years ago... ?
Many thanks Jez T. I watched a number of eps of CC as a teenager back in the 70s. Don't recall this particular one however. This was a rare occasion when I correctly guessed what the jury's verdict would be.
it was great magical days that I remember them to be, television played a huge part of my childhood in the 70s, Mr ben, bod, schools and colleges television, I loved being a child in the 70s and early 80s
cc was far too good for its original afrernoon slot. most of us were either at school or at work. if ever I was off sick, I would watch and enjoy the drama. its good that you have taken the trouble to upload, as I can now see the full episodes jez, thank you.
A pleasure, Chris. I just wish I had all the episodes, though!
Crown Court did air in prime time on occasions. Usually the episodes were combined into one 90 minute episode. It did not happen often, but they did experiment with it.
@@johnking5174 One season in the summertime of 1975 aired on Saturday nights around 8 pm or so - didn’t last long - the ones that have a title sequence that features a posh car leaving a posh house in a location said to be Stockport and driving along some roads are from that season!
Some familiar and unfamiliar faces and what a wealth and depth of actors. The casting was uniformly high. Crown Court is slower paced as matches dramas of the time but it still can stand up to scrutiny. Not all the crimes were pleasant, and actors played characters that nowadays would have social media in uproar, I’m thinking particularly of Frank Windsor in Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother from 1979. One of the darker and murkier story lines.
As an aside, didn’t Sheila Gish look terribly young? I saw her in Company several years later. She was really good, an actress with stage presence.
I'm not altogether certain I can think of any "pleasant" crimes, but maybe I need to get out more.
RIP Sheila Gish, who certainly suffered something unpleasant.
Thank you Jez T. Great shows. God bless you. 💗➕💗
Thank you for sharing these. Interesting to see how they did it across the pond.
Across the pond? Was there a program like this in the U.S.?
@@v.a.993 Best the Yanks had was Perry Mason, Petrocelli and, in later years, Matlock!
@@arthurvasey I bet Petrocelli still hasn’t finished building that wretched house. 😜
If Crown Court was shown in the afternoon it explains why I didn't get to watch any of these episodes. I would have been at work. Good to catch up with them now 😀
There was a brief interregnum where it was shown on Saturday nights in the summer - not repeats - but it reverted back to being an afternoon programme after that!
Despite being an afternoon drama, it did contain some colourful language at times! In an era where car chases, gunplay, sex, violence and bad language pervaded most evening TV dramas, Crown Court lacked all those - although some colourful language could be heard, usually as quotations - any offence committed happened prior to the trial!
Top notch, love CC. Thanks, if possible keep it coming.
I haven't too many more, but I'll upload what I can. Glad you're enjoying CC!
Really enjoying these jezz.slowed down a bit.don't want to go through them all that quick.
Rip the beautiful, talented Shiela Gish great actress❤
Great. Thanks
Happy Days of really good television, days when actors didn’t whisper and end credits rolled slowly and theme tunes played with real instruments. ‘Crown Court’, ‘Farmhouse Kitchen’, ‘Play School’, Emmerdale Farm’, ‘Crossroads’ to name a few of the great tv shows.
Hello, I was wondering if you had the episode with Ronald Lacey, "Cowboy"? ❤😊
You mean that despicable nerk Horrible Harris?
Thanks Jez. 👍🏼
The actor playing the defendant starred in The Long Good Friday, a 1979 film. In another century, Mr. Adam and Mr. White (aka Killer) would have been sent off to prison in Australia, as they would have been deemed beyond redemption.
I’ve fond memories of crown court, in as much, I got to watch it on those days I got the “guts ache” and skipped school for the day.
You are charged with feigning illness to avoid school so that you may watch a brilliant TV show. How do you plead ?
haha. too funny. i used to sniff aftershave. which would make my eyes water. tell my mum i had a cold. get to stay home. only to be bored with grown up tv. not to mention my mum would catch on and make me go to school for the afternoon.
I remember turning the little electric fire on in the back room and putting my face near it and telling my mum I had a temperature to get off school.
Norman Mitchell as the copper - for once in mufti and not some sort of uniform - he usually plays milkmen or postmen or security guards or uniformed policemen!
I didn’t use no knife!
Double negative - that’s a positive!
He did use a knife!
Admission of guilt!
That fellow Killer White is horrible...
+Jez T......Sheila Gish also starred as 'Rachel' in ''Highlander'' and ''Highlander: End Game''
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. That was a more innocent age. RIP
The Devil makes work for idle hands.
I guess it's my memory at fault but I remember this series but thought it was a 5 part series with the "verdict" on a Friday - I was only 5 or 6 yrs old and newish to England, born in England, moved to Ireland at 2 months old and returned when I was around 5 yrs - long emotive story.
I thought they were in 5 parts too, as you say, but apparently not.
6 years. He will be out in 3 or 4
Unlike a lot of my fellow commenters I did NOT watch CC with my mum (who would have been at work) or any other family members, I watched it on my own while truanting from school or with friends who were truanting.
Happy days!!!
Naughty, haha!
How's Joan feeling a bit chesty? no, shame.
I don't see the point of the jury being "unscripted" people off the street when the Defence & Prosecution scripting are inevitably skewed to get the obvious criminal found "not guilty"
I vividly remember one of these episodes where a young girl fell into flashing lights at a disco and was badly disfigured. Does anyone know if it’s on here anywhere?
2,000 witnesses
Very good stuff,but I doubt that Mr. White would understand 'mountain and Mohamet'!
Ashley Barker (Bob from Threads) appearing again
Personally (I am now 63), perhaps we were given far too much freedom at too young an age, enabling childish behaviour to be acted out in the outside world, rather than at home where such would normally be corrected by the parents (or at school). Parallel to this, lax parenting including the breakdown of traditional family life during the 60’s and 70’s accelerated until today’s experience of drinking and drug taking youth of both sexes well out of control. Liberal policies have conspired to destroy modern civilisation, with no personal responsibilities recognised or even desired by just about everybody. Even the authorities are corrupted by freedom to do what is right in their own eyes. And there’s no way back.
Are you in control of your emotions! Detective!
I must say the end credits look wonky at the end of the episode 1:11:30
Didn't think teenage offenses came up after a certain age or time .
addicted to murder mysteries, psychological. stories & similar related books etc SO am able to now with UTube & other outlets manage to view sentanceing from different countries .My homeland is still much kinder than others in this especially sentanceing in USA
Am not sure quite where I end up because am only to aware of the fear I felt as a teenager buying chips with friends on way home from Stables.. Terrified with no one who felt differently and so where are those bullies niw
One thing that does annoy me though and they wouldn't get away with it now (possibly why it is no longer filmed, apart from costs and viewing figures) is the fact that the "jury" is from the members of the public....except 1 = the jury foreman was always an actress or actor - equity rules, yet misleading info! ... Otherwise an excellent watchable series that NEEDS repeating if not continued. Good writing, great stories (sometimes a little OTT) and a great cast, many of whom went onto to bigger things yet sadly some died too young.
Glad you’re enjoying CC! Not sure how true it was, but I’m sure I heard that the jury foreman had to be on the local electoral register AND a member of Equity. So technically, it’s not misleading: however, you never see the foreman until the last minute and even then sometimes it’s someone recognisable like Bernard Hill or Nick Stringer, which can sometimes take you out of the story. So I completely get where you’re coming from! 👍
I understand what you are saying. Nevertheless, only the foreman being an actor wouldn't necessarily sway the verdict of the jury which were members of the public. Unless of course, it was X against 1, but in those instances I am sure that the foreman(actor) was instructed to vote according to the wishes of the jury. It was as real as they could possibly get it without filming an actual case in court. This programme also highlighted the dangers of a wrongful conviction by jury. For this reason, I am firmly against the death penalty and is the only verdict that cannot be reversed. A court case is very much dependent on the information provided and whilst the system and those involved strive to put forward the facts as best they can, the truth of the matter is that any court will never be in possession of the whole truth.
I hate to bring the mention of the following but it might do good for anybody. But first things first, when going for a knife never up if you were among your household.. ever .. you do not know who might come thrushing into your area where you’re standing. Holding it up might harm anyone rushing by you or harm yourself trying to get it away by acting fast in split seconds not holding against yourself properly. I always caution my son when he’s close to me busy washing and I’m about to grab a knife for safety. I learned doing because there was a tragic domestic accident when a mother asked her teen daughter to bring her a knife from the kitchen to chop sonething she was working on in the living room.. and she went to bring the knife not knowing that her younger brother followed her thrushing into the kitchen.. no need to tell you more you already had it imagined. So, handle things safely .. for what its worth being careful is a thousand times better than being sorry.
As for the case here, he unfortunately did it But unintentionally.. meaning it was a moment of defending oneself without the awareness of doing it .. like when someone waves a hand towards your face and you suddenly and consciously act upon that gesture thinking a slap was coming to you.. and the biggest mistake was him not acting properly after the accident, meaning helping the victim by calling an ambulance, nor even returning back to see what’s happened and if he could still be of any help which would have showed his good intentions to court, showing a little care and concern on his part as a good boy would, and not even bringing up the subject to his parent to see what could be done about it! Therefore, he must be punished for his actions but not hang 😬 because of the lack of intention!
Always nice to see a Sweeney face (Jeffry Wickham) 😊
???
Spoiler alert ,...........
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6years for MURDER! GOOD GRIEF
Is the young accused, Paul Adams, the fine Nathaniel Parker?!
Who must have gone straight as he ended up as Inspector Thomas Lynley!
Good sentence.fitted the crime,
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Like Gilbert and Sullivan. To make the punishment fit the crime!
Not as good as the others this one.bit sluggish.
O town lol
Life imitating art ? Not long after this was filmed
One men in back row of jury was my step father , he seriously assaulted my late mother one day , and then did a runner , neither she or I ever saw him again .
Which one in back row ?
@@RaveDave871
Guy I purple jacket
Did U know him ?
"The case you're about to see and the characters portrayed are fictional........."
Really.
It's "fictitious"......not "fictional".
I love nitpickers like you - does it *REALLY* matter _that much_ ?
@@Keithbarber Nit picking when addressed to nitwits?
No, it doesn't matter, as no doubt you'll agree.
@@joemifsud981 and I'm not sure whether to wear blue or green boxers today?
"[F]ictional", in the context of an imaginary story, is absolutely correct.
i recall crown court from early -mid 70s around 1-30 weekdays