I am American and this series is new to me. And delightful. At the time this show was being presented to the British public, there were no shows that would approach any sort of non-heterosexual persons with anything but disdain and disgust. Not only is my country still behind, but we seem to be running backwards as fast as we can. Each witness in these episodes is asked for his/her religious preference and that preference is accommodated by presenting the witness with an appropriate oath to recite. Those that state "No Religion", Agnostic, or Atheist are not denigrated by the court. No one simply hands them a Bible to swear on assuming that they must be Christian. I am assuming of course that even though this is a TV show, that the acceptance of those that live or believe outside the box labeled "Normal" was at least to some degree, tolerated. Or maybe I am just an old woman that still holds out that there is some kindness in this world.
Hi Katie. England is apparently declining with regard to lgbt rights, while in the United States, lgbt legal rights have been increasing for a couple of decades. Additionally, courts in the U.S. are required to accept non religious oaths. England has an official state religion. [This disconnection has a sense of dissociation about it. How modern.]
@@SystemsMedicine Team USA is somewhat declining as well because of the stupidity of those on both of the left and the right of trying to shove down the throats of most of America. If this piece of fecal matter isn't stopped very soon, America is doomed.
Thank you for projecting your stupidity as a fellow American, which I regard idiots like you as moral morons of the highest calibre. Plus, your stupid statement of expecting "a better world" as hopelessly naive and childish. 😡😡😡😡😡
The quality of these is astounding. The acting talent alone is world class. No wonder I sometimes made a childhood illness last a bit longer so I could stay off school & get to see the verdict on day 3. Thanks so much for posting.
”He sometimes goes out cruising." and the Judge's response: "You mean he goes sailing?" - Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! I was howling at this! Then, after all, this was 1976.
This was excellent and a sign of how the show pushed the boundaries of daytime TV. Great thanks to Jez for all these Crown Court uploads which are tremendously appreciated.
Wow! Another great episode...thanks again Jez. I'm constantly amazed at the calibre of acting talent on show and the issues covered given this was mostly a daytime show. I liked the snatches I saw as a schoolboy during lunchtimes but i'm really enjoying it now I can take in whole episodes and fully appreciate quality on offer. Quite a skill to highlight the prejudices and prevailing attitudes of the time together with the counter arguments in the space of an hour and interesting to see how that lands with real people...showing that sometimes the prejudices win through, though thankfully not in this case. Really appreciate your efforts in sharing these Jez.
I was 16 when Crown Court was first broadcast in 1972. It, and Marjoribank's brilliant biography of Marshall Hall, convinced me to read law. If memory serves, there was even an episode in which the accused was sentenced to death for treason. Thank you so much for posting these videos. They bring back so many happy memories.
They should bring back the death penalty for treason. The communist Blair did away with treason. So he could do away with hereditary peerage. In the 80s, Blair was fined £500 for solliciting young men in a public toilet. Bow St Magistrates Court. Blair hated the british judicial system.
Philip Sayer - 'Lola Martin' - worked in stage, film and television and is probably best known for his role as Sam Phillips in the science-fiction horror film Xtro (1983). He also appeared in other productions such as The Hunger (1983), Bluebell (1986), and Slayground (1983). Sayer passed away on September 19, 1989 at the age of 42 due to cancer. After his death, Brian May attended a memorial service and subsequently wrote the song "Just One Life" as a tribute to him. A Philip Sayer Scholarship fund was set up at LAMDA in Sayer's memory. Sayer Clinics are named after and in memory of Philip Sayer. In a 2017 interview, actress Susan Sarandon revealed that she had an affair with Sayer, although he had been gay. A sad early loss, but he fitted a lot in. RIP.
Freedom is relative. Tremendous work by all concerned here. It manages to be both hilarious and serious without losing its sense of realism. The 1970s were certainly a golden age of television and although it has a little to do with nostalgia it also shows the gulf in standards that has developed since then. A study of this change over the years would probably show you how TV culture has ended up in the state it's in today. Somehow along the way the entry point to an audience has been reduced to the lowest common denominator and technology has overtaken quality. And yet ironically the viewing figures in the 1970s have never been matched since.
I am really enjoying this series. I was a young grown-up in the 70s and the stories are very familiar and dare I say it .... still relevant to this day. Nice work Jez T. xx
I remember watching this with my Mum when I'd just started puberty and trying to understand this new conundrum of sexual attraction which had not been a problem before, as I was just a kid before that, only interested in fun and sports with my mates. Although I was attracted to females, I loved my mates rather like brothers', which could precipitate a little confusion on my part. Was the love I felt for my mates tinged with a sexual frisson for example. I asked my Mum what she thought of homosexuality, as coming from a small mining town it was rather frowned upon and taboo. Her answer was simple and succinct, 'If they're happy together and not hurting any one I don't see it as a problem'. I was a big Bowie fan a little later in life about the time of the New Romantic musical movement of which Bowie was an influencer. Ergo, I frequented clubs that played that music style. It also attracted the Gay's because of the flamboyant nature of the dress code. I knew many gays' and found them just as human as everyone else. What was clear to me, was that once they understood you were not Gay, they left that side of it alone and were friends in the normal sense. There were exceptions of course, but as my Mum also said, 'There are good and bad in every race and creed'.
Good for your mum. A sentiment expressed far too rarely these days. There are good and bad people in any group, whether it's members of a football club, fans of a particular band, followers of a political party or religion, all the way up to nation-states. And then very very few people are all good or all bad. Modern discourse is too often dominated by sweeping generalisations about huge groups of people and often very wrongly. Your mum had the right idea. I always try to hold the " there but for the grace of God go I". The world needs more tolerance and kindness ❤️
This is an astonishingly impressive drama for 1976. At a time when 'The Naked Civil Servant' was causing such bitter discussion in the UK, for Crown Court to so boldly and admirably address the same issue of individual sexuality is admirable. And done in a much more mature and deftly manner.
It’s also interesting to see John Layton in this one. He made a big name for himself in the early 60’s as pop star, with hits such as ‘Son, this she’ , ‘Johnny, remember me’ and ‘Wild Wind’
Produced by Joe Meek, a gay man. Leyton would have heard all about this, but apparently he was one of the few male artists Joe produced that he didn't try it on with.
It's been a pleasure to share them, Mary. Until I saw the lovely comments from everyone for each upload, I thought I was the only one that really enjoyed Crown Court! (My flatmate at the time of recording disliked them, probably because you had to concentrate when watching them and some are quite emotionally draining). Alas, my stash of recordings isn't infinite: I think I've about 15/20 more stories and then that's your lot! (Well, until Network get their act together and release the rest!). Glad you're enjoying them all the same. :)
@jezt42 we are thoroughly enjoying them Jez, watched them all at least a couple of tines! Thanks a million...look forward to any more you can upload. 🎉❤
Any chance of downloading the episode Strange Past I can still remember that one from 1974 and it scaring me to death especially if memory serves me right shots of a woman with a pitchfork in her throat, then again I was 9 at the time
Very brave writing. Interesting that the most anti-gay characters in this episode (the prosecuting counsel and the psychiatrist) are both women, one of them a medical professional. I wonder if there ever was/is a gay place in the UK where crossdressers and leather queens intermingled. Good to see the redoubtable Sir Ben on the side of the gays (he was in Sexy Beast, surely one of the gayest movies ever made). In addition, I thought it was very respectful to refer to the defendant as “Lola Martin” consistently. I enjoyed this, amazingly progressive -- thanks for posting.
As a Clinical Psychologist, may I say that a psychiatrist does not normally engage in "psychoanalytical therapy" as stated at 38:24, by the psychiatrist. That is the domain of a completely different field of speciality and most psychologists and psychiatrists do not engage in such "treatment". A psychiatrist may do so, however, should they have received specialised training in that field which incurs a protracted length of time. In all, it may take 10-14 years to become either a psychologist or a psychiatrist depending on the requirements specified by the location in which he/she will be initially registered. However, in this case, I never heard the doctor announce/inform the court she had training as a psychoanalyst.
Robin Bailey's performance as the judge in this episode is rather different to his performance as Mr Injustice Graves (also known as The Whited Sepulchre) in Rumpole of the Bailey! One or two losses of control by defence counsel (brilliantly played by a young Ben Kingsley) had me wondering about his sexual preferences too....
Looking at the entire cast for the show, over the years on IMDB, it almost seems as though Crown Court took over from the old weekly ‘Repertory Theatre’ of the UK. A question I have for you Jez T is this, do you have ‘Queen Bee’? It was originally broadcast in 1978. Thanks a million for these wonderful shows.
I'm sorry the end soundtrack had to be edited, it's ironic that a legal drama should need to be amended due to a legal technicality, or maybe it's apt 🤔
I am told, M'Lud, that The Kinks are a popular beat combo. If you're there on a drugs stakeout it's a bit incompetent blowing your cover over a bit of shirt lifting. 56:45 Is that a truncheon in your pocket or are you pleased to see me?
Both counsels seem to me to be defending the accused. The woman who is supposed to be acting for the prosecution is making a good defence case. I'm only on the first part of the second episode and wonder what the verdict will be ...
While I admire all the contributors to this excellent drama,, one flaw in the Defense''s cross-examination of Dr. Burlington really threw me off: characterizing a woman's business suit as man's clothing! And the Prosecution did not object? Would the judge have allowed a man dressed in the doctpr's suit into his courtroom?
Another winner! I refuse to say you’re showing up Network as a bunch of slowcoaches as they’re too good to be dismissed that way - even if they did bring us the dubious delights of Kinvig! One CC I remember from the good old days featured the memorable phrase, “I am so-and-so and I can write, you are so-and-so and you are shite” or something similar; that one coming up?
I live in Asia and we have a very large Transexual community here that Proudly identify as Lady Boys never as women, Under the law here they cannot change their Gender because of strict identification laws regarding countering illegal immigration and Ladyboys here respect women's private space,and would never use women changing rooms at public amenities and as Ladyboys they are accepted as a third gender socially but not legally,Ive seen many guys come to this country as heterosexual males and formed lasting relationships with ladyboys here and Ladyboys are very popular with the foreign gay community, Personally being a straight heterosexual male I have no interest in Gays or Ladyboys and here its never a big issue,The West could learn a lot from Asia.
a good verdict,everyone has the right to be what they want to be and re the kinks lola....the record was banned by the BBC, not for its references to transvestites, but for its mention of cherry-cola.
What an absolutely bizarre waste of time this all was, a waste of societies energy; knowing, as we do, that this has always existed, back to (and beyond) famously the Greeks, why didn't society just realise it was supplementary to 'normal' society? I've always thought homosexuality is natures way of asking some of it's members to perform duties other than that of parenting. Perhaps even supporting parents, as happens in ape groups with those who don't have children; what a happier place the world would be if we just accepted the obvious!!
A rather inevitable verdict given that David Yallop wrote this episode. That was all-too-often the problem with CC - the liberalism of its writers made the episodes somewhat predictable.
Hi, to be fair, it may not have been "somewhat predictable" in the context of the time it was written in (1976), the "liberalism" of the Screenwriters of the time shows they were thinking ahead, perhaps to more liberal future: rather than "looking back", etc.
How were that doctor’s proposals not banned by that stage, the lawyer was saying homosexuality was legal, it is not for people who have degrees to overrule the will of Parliament
Looking at the entire cast for the show, over the years on IMDB, it almost seems as though Crown Court took over from the old weekly ‘Repertory Theatre’ of the UK. A question I have for you Jez T is this, do you have ‘Queen Bee’? It was originally broadcast in 1978. Thanks a million for these wonderful shows.
My pleasure, doolally69! I’m afraid I’ve no more shows to upload. CC was shown on an obscure cable channel called Legal TV in around 2006 and I primarily only recorded the ones with Richard Wilson (as he’s a fab actor). Of course, as I started watching the others I recorded them as well as they had all the other recognisable actors as well. Kicking myself that I didn’t record the lot. :(
I am American and this series is new to me. And delightful. At the time this show was being presented to the British public, there were no shows that would approach any sort of non-heterosexual persons with anything but disdain and disgust. Not only is my country still behind, but we seem to be running backwards as fast as we can.
Each witness in these episodes is asked for his/her religious preference and that preference is accommodated by presenting the witness with an appropriate oath to recite. Those that state "No Religion", Agnostic, or Atheist are not denigrated by the court. No one simply hands them a Bible to swear on assuming that they must be Christian. I am assuming of course that even though this is a TV show, that the acceptance of those that live or believe outside the box labeled "Normal" was at least to some degree, tolerated.
Or maybe I am just an old woman that still holds out that there is some kindness in this world.
Hi Katie. England is apparently declining with regard to lgbt rights, while in the United States, lgbt legal rights have been increasing for a couple of decades. Additionally, courts in the U.S. are required to accept non religious oaths. England has an official state religion. [This disconnection has a sense of dissociation about it. How modern.]
@@SystemsMedicine Team USA is somewhat declining as well because of the stupidity of those on both of the left and the right of trying to shove down the throats of most of America. If this piece of fecal matter isn't stopped very soon, America is doomed.
Thank you for projecting your stupidity as a fellow American, which I regard idiots like you as moral morons of the highest calibre. Plus, your stupid statement of expecting "a better world" as hopelessly naive and childish. 😡😡😡😡😡
The quality of these is astounding. The acting talent alone is world class. No wonder I sometimes made a childhood illness last a bit longer so I could stay off school & get to see the verdict on day 3.
Thanks so much for posting.
I was working at the time these programmes were first shown. I only got to see them if I was off sick or on leave
Me to I use to love watching when I was ill off school I was about 8 but loved this about 2pm
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So did I....or was late for school, having come home just to watch Crown Court!
”He sometimes goes out cruising." and the Judge's response: "You mean he goes sailing?" - Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear! I was howling at this! Then, after all, this was 1976.
Nicholas Ball and Ben Kingsley! Lola great record from The Kinks.
Also the always excellent Robin Bailey and Judy Parfitt.
This was excellent and a sign of how the show pushed the boundaries of daytime TV. Great thanks to Jez for all these Crown Court uploads which are tremendously appreciated.
Thank you so much for uploading this episode. Superb acting by Philip Sayer as Lola❤
Philip Sayer died at 42 from cancer I believe
@@juliemunro1 Oh, how sad. He certainly was convincing in this role, obviously a very talented actor.
A very young Ben Kingsley.... showing obvious signs of his future skill set.
Wow! Another great episode...thanks again Jez. I'm constantly amazed at the calibre of acting talent on show and the issues covered given this was mostly a daytime show. I liked the snatches I saw as a schoolboy during lunchtimes but i'm really enjoying it now I can take in whole episodes and fully appreciate quality on offer. Quite a skill to highlight the prejudices and prevailing attitudes of the time together with the counter arguments in the space of an hour and interesting to see how that lands with real people...showing that sometimes the prejudices win through, though thankfully not in this case. Really appreciate your efforts in sharing these Jez.
I wholeheartedly agree, these programmes are amazing, I am really enjoying watching them
Delicate subjects were handled well in those days. Without all the stupid left-wing trans rights and diversity agenda of today (2023).
Wow! This is heavy duty, cut and thrust, advocacy. Makes for heady viewing.
Some Crown Court episodes dealt with controversial subject matter. In the Anglia TV region the programmes were broadcast at 1.30 p.m.
I was 16 when Crown Court was first broadcast in 1972. It, and Marjoribank's brilliant biography of Marshall Hall, convinced me to read law. If memory serves, there was even an episode in which the accused was sentenced to death for treason. Thank you so much for posting these videos. They bring back so many happy memories.
They should bring back the death penalty for treason. The communist Blair did away with treason. So he could do away with hereditary peerage. In the 80s, Blair was fined £500 for solliciting young men in a public toilet. Bow St Magistrates Court. Blair hated the british judicial system.
Wow ... Ben Kingsley, Judy Parfitt and so many others actors from the 70's. Thanks
Love watching this series great acting. Thank you for uploading them.
Philip Sayer - 'Lola Martin' - worked in stage, film and television and is probably best known for his role as Sam Phillips in the science-fiction horror film Xtro (1983). He also appeared in other productions such as The Hunger (1983), Bluebell (1986), and Slayground (1983). Sayer passed away on September 19, 1989 at the age of 42 due to cancer. After his death, Brian May attended a memorial service and subsequently wrote the song "Just One Life" as a tribute to him. A Philip Sayer Scholarship fund was set up at LAMDA in Sayer's memory. Sayer Clinics are named after and in memory of Philip Sayer.
In a 2017 interview, actress Susan Sarandon revealed that she had an affair with Sayer, although he had been gay. A sad early loss, but he fitted a lot in. RIP.
A lovely tribute 👍
Freedom is relative.
Tremendous work by all concerned here. It manages to be both hilarious and serious without losing its sense of realism.
The 1970s were certainly a golden age of television and although it has a little to do with nostalgia it also shows the gulf in standards that has developed since then. A study of this change over the years would probably show you how TV culture has ended up in the state it's in today. Somehow along the way the entry point to an audience has been reduced to the lowest common denominator and technology has overtaken quality.
And yet ironically the viewing figures in the 1970s have never been matched since.
Incredible! The aversion therapy described by the doctor is reminiscent of the Ludovico Technique used on Alex in A Clockwork Orange.
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Ow attitudes change in haf a century and app surprisingly enlightened jury.
fantastic. ...love these series of crown court best quality I've seen around...keep them coming xx
Superb episode. This was day time TV ffs....how things have changed.
-Presumably any riff raff can join this place?
+ No, ma'am. For example, I wouldn't let you join.
lol she got owned
Thanks a very thought provoking episode. An eye opener too
I am really enjoying this series. I was a young grown-up in the 70s and the stories are very familiar and dare I say it .... still relevant to this day. Nice work Jez T. xx
Another great show from Jez....thanks!!
Wow, great Crown Court show. I didn't know it was Ben Kingsley till right at the end!
Superb audio editing, Jez. Think this is one I missed on Legal TV due to equipment failure, so glad to see it.
Not one of my absolute favourites, but it’s an interesting snapshot of the time it was made. Glad you finally managed to see it! :)
I remember watching this with my Mum when I'd just started puberty and trying to understand this new conundrum of sexual attraction which had not been a problem before, as I was just a kid before that, only interested in fun and sports with my mates.
Although I was attracted to females, I loved my mates rather like brothers', which could precipitate a little confusion on my part. Was the love I felt for my mates tinged with a sexual frisson for example.
I asked my Mum what she thought of homosexuality, as coming from a small mining town it was rather frowned upon and taboo.
Her answer was simple and succinct, 'If they're happy together and not hurting any one I don't see it as a problem'.
I was a big Bowie fan a little later in life about the time of the New Romantic musical movement of which Bowie was an influencer. Ergo, I frequented clubs that played that music style. It also attracted the Gay's because of the flamboyant nature of the dress code. I knew many gays' and found them just as human as everyone else.
What was clear to me, was that once they understood you were not Gay, they left that side of it alone and were friends in the normal sense.
There were exceptions of course, but as my Mum also said, 'There are good and bad in every race and creed'.
Good for your mum. A sentiment expressed far too rarely these days. There are good and bad people in any group, whether it's members of a football club, fans of a particular band, followers of a political party or religion, all the way up to nation-states. And then very very few people are all good or all bad. Modern discourse is too often dominated by sweeping generalisations about huge groups of people and often very wrongly. Your mum had the right idea. I always try to hold the " there but for the grace of God go I". The world needs more tolerance and kindness ❤️
By that very reasoning there must be bad homosexuals. @@goodwifelucy5602
This is an astonishingly impressive drama for 1976. At a time when 'The Naked Civil Servant' was causing such bitter discussion in the UK, for Crown Court to so boldly and admirably address the same issue of individual sexuality is admirable. And done in a much more mature and deftly manner.
"Who or what are 'The Kinks'?"
Magnificent.
"You mean... sailing?"
The despicably sanctimonious condescension of the council for the prosecution makes you shudder.
The poor old judge is learning a whole new lingo.
Another great episode! The superb acting is measured by how much I disliked the doctor! I'm really enjoying these - thank you.
WOW - great legal banter - good work Mr Kingsley :)
You can see in this episode that the fledgling Philp Sayer would have been up there with the greatest of our actors had he not been struck by illness.
It's amusing to see Lady Catherine De Burgh (1980 BBC Pride and Prejudice) battling Gandhi.
That was a really good episode also, thanks so much:)
Wow, 'Ben Kingsley' is excellent!
I enjoyed watching crown court due to i was young when it was on tv.
It’s also interesting to see John Layton in this one. He made a big name for himself in the early 60’s as pop star, with hits such as ‘Son, this she’ , ‘Johnny, remember me’ and ‘Wild Wind’
Thanks for that! As of 2019, he’s 83 and still going strong. :)
Produced by Joe Meek, a gay man. Leyton would have heard all about this, but apparently he was one of the few male artists Joe produced that he didn't try it on with.
That's Ben Kingsley as the defence counsel? Also, I notice Judy Parfitt (the old nun from Call the Midwife) as the prosecuting counsel.
You can already tell that Ben Kingsley is going to be a star.
Surprised and pleased by the verdict!
Ben Kingsley as Defence Council. Brilliant stuff.
Judy Parfitt ( a k a Sister Monica Joan from Call the Midwife)
They called him Lola. He was a showgirl…..❤😂❤
11 series - 879 episodes of Crown Court. How many have we seen thanks to you Jez?
Mary Hopkins
He is a good man hey:)
It's been a pleasure to share them, Mary. Until I saw the lovely comments from everyone for each upload, I thought I was the only one that really enjoyed Crown Court! (My flatmate at the time of recording disliked them, probably because you had to concentrate when watching them and some are quite emotionally draining). Alas, my stash of recordings isn't infinite: I think I've about 15/20 more stories and then that's your lot! (Well, until Network get their act together and release the rest!). Glad you're enjoying them all the same. :)
Thank you! If only it were true... ;)
@jezt42 we are thoroughly enjoying them Jez, watched them all at least a couple of tines! Thanks a million...look forward to any more you can upload. 🎉❤
Is that Ben Kingsley? Ghandi later in life. Some British TV was great at this time
Thanks jez watched all your crown court and some others ie b smith.lol a.lala la lola
He/she was guilty of bad taste but then it was the 70s. The decade that fashion missed! 😢
Any chance of downloading the episode Strange Past I can still remember that one from 1974 and it scaring me to death especially if memory serves me right shots of a woman with a pitchfork in her throat, then again I was 9 at the time
Very brave writing. Interesting that the most anti-gay characters in this episode (the prosecuting counsel and the psychiatrist) are both women, one of them a medical professional. I wonder if there ever was/is a gay place in the UK where crossdressers and leather queens intermingled. Good to see the redoubtable Sir Ben on the side of the gays (he was in Sexy Beast, surely one of the gayest movies ever made). In addition, I thought it was very respectful to refer to the defendant as “Lola Martin” consistently. I enjoyed this, amazingly progressive -- thanks for posting.
Uncle Mort as a judge....wonder if staveley and carter will turn up too
As a Clinical Psychologist, may I say that a psychiatrist does not normally engage in "psychoanalytical therapy" as stated at 38:24, by the psychiatrist. That is the domain of a completely different field of speciality and most psychologists and psychiatrists do not engage in such "treatment". A psychiatrist may do so, however, should they have received specialised training in that field which incurs a protracted length of time. In all, it may take 10-14 years to become either a psychologist or a psychiatrist depending on the requirements specified by the location in which he/she will be initially registered. However, in this case, I never heard the doctor announce/inform the court she had training as a psychoanalyst.
I think practices have changed somewhat since the UK in 1976. Thankfully for both the psychiatric profession and its patients.
Superb story
Yet another one Jez.cheers mate.how many have you actually uploaded.
Gotta slow down - halfway through now lol. Still enjoying the series.
Robin Bailey's performance as the judge in this episode is rather different to his performance as Mr Injustice Graves (also known as The Whited Sepulchre) in Rumpole of the Bailey! One or two losses of control by defence counsel (brilliantly played by a young Ben Kingsley) had me wondering about his sexual preferences too....
It's Ben Kingsley!
My cat lola now thinks shes got her own tv episode.
Very powerful.
Alan Hunter giving an entirely different meaning to Colin’s Sandwich 👍
Looking at the entire cast for the show, over the years on IMDB, it almost seems as though Crown Court took over from the old weekly ‘Repertory Theatre’ of the UK.
A question I have for you Jez T is this, do you have ‘Queen Bee’? It was originally broadcast in 1978.
Thanks a million for these wonderful shows.
I'm sorry the end soundtrack had to be edited, it's ironic that a legal drama should need to be amended due to a legal technicality, or maybe it's apt 🤔
I wonder if Ray Davies got a cheque for this episode?🙂
I think that doctor is now the minister for equally, ans goes by the name of kemi badenoch
I am told, M'Lud, that The Kinks are a popular beat combo.
If you're there on a drugs stakeout it's a bit incompetent blowing your cover over a bit of shirt lifting. 56:45 Is that a truncheon in your pocket or are you pleased to see me?
The detective has classic good looks, should have been in ‘I Claudius.’
Look at who are acting in this series.
Yes that is why I am watching the episodes and am grateful that they have been uploaded.
Hey Rama!
Both counsels seem to me to be defending the accused. The woman who is supposed to be acting for the prosecution is making a good defence case. I'm only on the first part of the second episode and wonder what the verdict will be ...
Goodness me, I think we've all been to Verifys at some point in our chaotic, immoral lives, haven't we boys lol
Very surprised by the verdict. Some of the language used on both sides was offensive!!
While I admire all the contributors to this excellent drama,, one flaw in the Defense''s cross-examination of Dr. Burlington really threw me off: characterizing a woman's business suit as man's clothing! And the Prosecution did not object? Would the judge have allowed a man dressed in the doctpr's suit into his courtroom?
Another winner! I refuse to say you’re showing up Network as a bunch of slowcoaches as they’re too good to be dismissed that way - even if they did bring us the dubious delights of Kinvig! One CC I remember from the good old days featured the memorable phrase, “I am so-and-so and I can write, you are so-and-so and you are shite” or something similar; that one coming up?
I WISH THAT THEY WOULD TO SAY 'BEFORE' INSTEAD OF THE POMPOUS 'PRIOR TO'.
I live in Asia and we have a very large Transexual community here that Proudly identify as Lady Boys never as women, Under the law here they cannot change their Gender because of strict identification laws regarding countering illegal immigration and Ladyboys here respect women's private space,and would never use women changing rooms at public amenities and as Ladyboys they are accepted as a third gender socially but not legally,Ive seen many guys come to this country as heterosexual males and formed lasting relationships with ladyboys here and Ladyboys are very popular with the foreign gay community, Personally being a straight heterosexual male I have no interest in Gays or Ladyboys and here its never a big issue,The West could learn a lot from Asia.
Ben Kingsley
Whistling the tune for z car and old cop show so funny oh bloody your honour I'm not going to go in wearing spandex sorry my joke lol 🤣🤣
Sheet music the kinks rock on judge beethoven
a good verdict,everyone has the right to be what they want to be and re the kinks lola....the record was banned by the BBC, not for its references to transvestites, but for its mention of cherry-cola.
Not quite right it was banned because the firsts release was Coke a Cola. Banned because it was seen as advertising.
nmasnadver
C'mon Rodney! What is it a couple of ravers? Nah Bruv, its a couple of geezers!
elephant all over his oedipus
17:49
What an absolutely bizarre waste of time this all was, a waste of societies energy; knowing, as we do, that this has always existed, back to (and beyond) famously the Greeks, why didn't society just realise it was supplementary to 'normal' society? I've always thought homosexuality is natures way of asking some of it's members to perform duties other than that of parenting. Perhaps even supporting parents, as happens in ape groups with those who don't have children; what a happier place the world would be if we just accepted the obvious!!
Black leather he's no queen
A rather inevitable verdict given that David Yallop wrote this episode. That was all-too-often the problem with CC - the liberalism of its writers made the episodes somewhat predictable.
dont be a felon then !
Hi, to be fair, it may not have been "somewhat predictable" in the context of the time it was written in (1976), the "liberalism" of the Screenwriters of the time shows they were thinking ahead, perhaps to more liberal future: rather than "looking back", etc.
The verdicts were not scripted - as in real-life cases, it was the jury who decided.
Ben Kingsley adresses the judge as my lord and Judy Parfit adresses him... well to me it sounds as me lad 🤔😉⁉️
M'lud. A common abbreviation of My lord, at least in judicial works of fiction
It's ok this one,
David Bowie and mick jagger does not wear women clothes only make-up.
How were that doctor’s proposals not banned by that stage, the lawyer was saying homosexuality was legal, it is not for people who have degrees to overrule the will of Parliament
You might as well ask why pray away the gay programmes aren’t illegal even now.
so funny to hear attempts at an American accent. Must be the same thing for Brits to hear Americans putting on a fake accent. LOL
The late actor, Tony Sibbald was in fact Canadian, born and bred.
Gay footballers in 1976? In 2023? Surely not...?🤣
Why didn't the prosecution call the defence lawyer as a witnes and identify him for his predjudice as homosexual himself?
Looking at the entire cast for the show, over the years on IMDB, it almost seems as though Crown Court took over from the old weekly ‘Repertory Theatre’ of the UK.
A question I have for you Jez T is this, do you have ‘Queen Bee’? It was originally broadcast in 1978.
Thanks a million for these wonderful shows.
My pleasure, doolally69! I’m afraid I’ve no more shows to upload. CC was shown on an obscure cable channel called Legal TV in around 2006 and I primarily only recorded the ones with Richard Wilson (as he’s a fab actor). Of course, as I started watching the others I recorded them as well as they had all the other recognisable actors as well. Kicking myself that I didn’t record the lot. :(
@@jezt42 Richard Wilson is one of the most nicest actors in Britain. He is superb. A kind heart and I wish he was on TV much more now in 2020.