Season 1978

E1. Black and Blue (1)

Jan 3, 1978

E2. Black and Blue (2)

Jan 4, 1978

E3. Black and Blue (3)

Jan 5, 1978

E4. Meeting Place (1)

Jan 10, 1978

Introverted middle-aged bachelor Leslie Simon and outgoing teenager Barry Gems seem worlds apart but an encounter between them in a parks public toilet late on a Saturday night left Mr. Simon badly injured. The Prosecution assert that Gems deliberately assaulted him.

E5. Meeting Place (2)

Jan 11, 1978

E6. Meeting Place (3)

Jan 12, 1978

E7. Echoes (1)

Jan 17, 1978

David Miller is accused of committing grievous bodily harm against Ronnie Dewhurst, a man with whom he has long had a tense relationship and whose former girlfriend he has married. Dewhurst says he was assaulted in a pub

E8. Echoes (2)

Jan 18, 1978

E9. Echoes (3)

Jan 19, 1978

E10. White Lies (1)

Jan 24, 1978

Dispatch worker Raj Singh is accused of stealing merchandise from the Electrotoy factory where he worked and of wounding his supervisor Ronald Makepeace. The Prosecution argue that the goods were found in the boot of Singh's car by Mr. Makepeace whom he then assaulted in a fit of anger. However Singh denies both charges. He retorts that the items were planted in his car, the culmination of a campaign of racially-motivated harassment throughout his employment.

E11. White Lies (2)

Jan 25, 1978

E12. White Lies (3)

Jan 26, 1978

E13. The Song Not The Singer (1)

Jan 31, 1978

Dr. Ruth Wilkins attended a concert by singers John Barnard and Julie Gilmour. However she was not a fan and after hearing them perform one of their songs they are charged with blasphemy. Dr. Wilkins is a committed Christian and moral campaigner and argues the song causes outrage to Christians. The Defence maintain that the song is quite acceptable and a legitimate statement of protest against the cruelties of war.

E14. The Song Not The Singer (2)

Feb 1, 1978

E15. The Song Not The Singer (3)

Feb 2, 1978

E16. Michael (1)

Feb 7, 1978

Robine Fisher stands accused of infanticide - specifically of smothering to death her baby son Michael - while suffering from post-natal depression. The Prosecution case is that she was an inadequate mother who eventually lost control. Injuries on his body suggested he had been deliberately suffocated. The Defence claim though that she cared deeply for Michael and that he died of cot death syndrome. Her desperate efforts to revive him inadvertently caused the injuries.

E17. Michael (2)

Feb 8, 1978

E18. Michael (3)

Feb 9, 1978

E19. Association (1)

Feb 14, 1978

Novelist Derek Easton is accused of harbouring escaped psychopath John Bright and aiding and abetting him to commit rapes by supplying drugs used to subdue the victims. He had met Bright while on a voluntary stay in a psychiatric hospital and the Prosecution claim the two became strong friends. Easton denies the charges. He says he did not know Bright was a serious sexual offender, did not know he was on the run and did not assist him with the rape offenses.

E20. Association (2)

Feb 15, 1978

E21. Association (3)

Feb 16, 1978

E22. Still Life With Feathers (1)

Feb 21, 1978

Nadia Phillips faces charges of malicious wounding and criminal damage. The prosecution case is that she assaulted her former fiancé Bob Turner and damaged artworks created by his new partner Alice Lovell.

E23. Still Life With Feathers (2)

Feb 22, 1978

E24. Still Life With Feathers (3)

Feb 23, 1978

E25. Cat in Hell (1)

Feb 28, 1978

George Mitchell, a prisoner on a release programme, was found by a police officer in possession of a cashmere coat containing items of jewellery. The coat and jewellery all belonged to members of the wealthy Cunningham family with whom he had been staying while Mrs. Cunningham offered him rehabilitation support. Mitchell admits to stealing the coat but argues that he is innocent of the other alleged thefts. He insists the items were planted and he is the victim of a frame by a member of the Cunningham family.

E26. Cat in Hell (2)

Mar 1, 1978

E27. Cat in Hell (3)

Mar 2, 1978

E28. To Catch A Thief (1)

Mar 7, 1978

George Grainger has a long list of convictions for handling stolen property. How can he explain away a garage full of stolen whisky?

E29. To Catch A Thief (2)

Mar 8, 1978

E30. To Catch A Thief (3)

Mar 9, 1978