Consider Your Verdict
Consider Your Verdict | |
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Country of origin | Australia |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 163 |
Production | |
Production locations | HSV-7, Fitzroy, Victoria |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | Crawford Productions |
Release | |
Original network | Seven Network |
Original 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[]
The television series was recorded at the HSV-7 Fitzroy tele-theatre in Melbourne. There were 163 one-hour episode. The series was also popular in New Zealand.
Synopsis[]
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.
Notable Episodes[]
- Queen Versus Bent starring Harold Blair
Awards[]
It won a Logie Award in 1961 for Best Australian Drama Series
References[]
- ^ "IT'S A FAMILY VERDICT". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 4 July 1962. p. 38 Supplement: Television. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
- ^ Albert Moran, Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series, AFTRS 1993 p 125
External links[]
- Consider Your Verdict at Classic Australian Television
- Consider Your Verdict at the National Film and Sound Archive
Categories:
- Australian drama television series
- Australian legal television series
- Black-and-white Australian television shows
- English-language television shows
- Seven Network original programming
- Television shows set in Victoria (Australia)
- 1961 Australian television series debuts
- 1964 Australian television series endings
- Television series by Crawford Productions
- Australian television show stubs