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On Trial - Season 1

First aired: 7/8/1960 10 episodes
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Episodes

1. Sir Roger Casement

Aired: 7/8/1960

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

2. The Baccarat Scandal

Aired: 7/15/1960

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

3. Admiral Byng

Aired: 7/22/1960

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

4. Spencer Cowper

Aired: 7/29/1960

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

5. Oscar Wilde

Aired: 8/5/1960

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

6. The Dilke Case

Aired: 8/12/1960

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

7. The Tichborne Case

Aired: 8/19/1960

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

8. W.T. Stead

Aired: 8/26/1960

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.

9. Governor Wall

Aired: 9/2/1960

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

10. Horatio Bottomley, MP

Aired: 9/9/1960

A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.

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