Crown Court was an ITV afternoon television courtroom drama that started in 1972, which was the same year the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in England and Wales. The last episodes were broadcast in late March 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 although there were some later, brief variations in format. ...
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Crown Court was an ITV afternoon television courtroom drama that started in 1972, which was the same year the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in England and Wales. The last episodes were broadcast in late March 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 although there were some later, brief variations in format. Although those involved in the case were actors, the jury was made up of members of the general public from the local Granada Television 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,...
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