Consider Your Verdict
Consider Your Verdict | |
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Genre | Legal drama |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 163 |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | Crawford Productions |
Original release | |
Network | Seven Network |
Release | February 1961 June 1964 | –
Consider Your Verdict is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network originally screening from February 1961 through to June 1964. It was based on a radio series with the same name broadcast on 3DB in Melbourne from 1958 to 1960.[1][2]
Production
[edit]The television series was recorded at the HSV-7 Fitzroy Tele-theatre in Melbourne. There were 163 one-hour episodes. The series was also popular in New Zealand.
Synopsis
[edit]The series made use of a revolving cast to portray various court cases. The actors were given the details of a given case and instructed to improvise their performances to give the series a more authentic, immediate feel.
Cast
[edit]- Terence Donovan as Keith Upton (1961–63)
- George Whaley as Don Fraser / Stanley Naughton (1962–64, 3 episodes)
- Robert Jewell as Dave Betts (1962/63, 2 episodes)
- Edward Howell as Costella (1963, 2 episodes)
- Sheila Florance as Jocelyn Matthews / Laura Radford (1962/63, 2 episodes)
- Reg Gorman as Reg Fraser (1964/66, 2 episodes)
- Anne Charleston (1962/64, 2 episodes)
- Liz Harris as Kath Hutchins (1962, 1 episode)
- Elspeth Ballantyne as Cynthia Martin (1 episode)
- Annette Andre as The Other Woman (1961, 1 episode)
- Harold Blair as Tommy Bent (1962, 1 episode)
- Juliana Allen as Lynne Driscoll (1962, 1 episode)
- Wynn Roberts as Defence Counsel Robert Winter (1962, 1 episode)
- David Watt as Leslie Butler (1962, 1 episode)
- Vernon Spencer as Graham Butler (1962, 1 episode)
- Tommy Dysart as Jack McLean (1963, 1 episode)
- Maggie Millar as Lydia Durant (1962, 1 episode)
- James Scullin as Rocky Hawkins (1962, 1 episode)
- Raymond Fedden as Ed Rowe (1962, 1 episode)
- Isobel Kuhl as Gladys Willetts (1962, 1 episode)
- George Fairfax as Crown Prosecutor John Taylor (1962, 1 episode)
- Melissa Jaffer (1961, 1 episode)
- Ian Turpie (1964, 1 episode)
- James Elliott (1962, 1 episode)
- Max Phipps (1964, 1 episode)
- Tom Oliver (1964)
- Leonard Teale (1961–64)
- Nigel Lovell (1962)
- Mark Edwards
- Joe McCormick (1962)
- Denys Burrows (1962)
- Marion Edward as Myra Fuller (1963, 1 episode)
Notable episodes
[edit]- Queen Versus Bent starring Harold Blair
Awards
[edit]Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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1962 | Logie Awards | Best Drama Series | Consider Your Verdict | Won | [citation needed] |
References
[edit]- ^ Berkeley, Margaret (4 July 1962). "It's A Family Verdict". Television Supplement. The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. p. 2. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ^ Moran, Albert; Pinne, Peter (1993). Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series. Australian Film, Television and Radio School. p. 125. ISBN 9780642184627.
External links
[edit]- Consider Your Verdict at IMDb
- Consider Your Verdict at Classic Australian Television
- Consider Your Verdict at the National Film and Sound Archive