TV Series

Series Name:	Crown Court
Format:	TV Series
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Years:	1972 - 1984
Country:	UK
Language:	English
Genre:	Drama
Rating:	4.3 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	14 Have Seen
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Notes

Anthology series, three episodes per week covering one case. The fictional cases were deliberated on by a jury composed of members of the public.

Comments and Reviews


MR B PAGE ● 9th Aug 2019		Review I remember this show quite well,when this series used to be screened three episodes per week at 1:30 p.m.,and also launched the careers of well-known celebrities such as Bob Hoskins [who looked a bit like a car dealer],Brenda Fricker,Judy Parfitt,Ben Kingsley,Nigel Havers,Peter Capaldi,Brian Cox,Tom Conti,Gregor Fisher,etc.Not Only I loved the series so much,but also my late mother liked the series,and still brings me back memories,and oh yes,In case you want to know the actual music introduction opening of the TV series is of course the opening bars of the fourth movement [Allegretto] from Sinfonietta by Leos Janacek,in which I like it so much as well as the TV series,and also I like the celebrities and they look so young and how they dressed beautifully. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



Neil Forbes 6th Oct 2015		RC: "Actually would sound ridiculous have a licence to have a radio and television" In today's terms, it would indeed be ridiculous! But in the early days of radio, then TV up to the early 1970s, that was the norm.



Neil Forbes 6th Oct 2015		Er... The Butler did it! 'Cause he was "Maid" to (ha-ha)



Record Collector 6th Oct 2015		Oh it's one of those who dun it shows



Record Collector 6th Oct 2015		Actually would sound ridiculous have a licence to have a radio and television



Neil Forbes 6th Oct 2015		1974? I could've sworn it was earlier than that! But I, unlike Cptbeefheart, am glad to see the end of licence fees. When you buy the TV set, you should NOT be forced to pay for the "privilege(?)" of watching it. You've already forked out a heap of dollars, deutschmarks, drachmas, pounds or whatever currencies you're using to buy the set, so why should you have to keep forking out just to watch it? The licence fee(for both radio and TV) in Australia, was an enforced subscription to the ABC which, back in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s was so damned elitist and snobbish that, for most, it wasn't worth the money spent on those fees. When the fees were abolished, we saw a slow-but-steady makeover of the ABC here, the snobbish elitism was giving way to a more egalitarian programming policy that, by the turn of the century(2001 being the first year of the new century/millennium), the ABC became far better to watch than the commercial stations with their tabloid-style current affairs and crappy reality(?) shows.



Record Collector 4th Oct 2015		@ Neil Forbes it was 1974



Monolith 4th Oct 2015		Quite happy to see the end of the TV tax, should be pay per view, if you want BBC then pay the license. I'm forced to pay for a license that I'd quite happily give up. No choice in the matter. Legalised theft. Just scramble my BBC channels and stop stealing money out of my bank account. Don't think it'll happen in my lifetime though, it'll take years for it to be agreed then another decade for it to be implemented. The whole TV tax is an antiquated system that is being clung to in an age of multi channel, multi system digital television to support an over bloated egotistical narcissistic corporation. All I want is the option to choose. Is that too much to ask? I'm away for a lie down now.



Quad5point1 ● 3rd Oct 2015		@Neil Forbes. Personally I'm all in favour of the Licence fee. It's great to have ad free television. But out of the increased BBC output the only channels I now watch are BBC4 and BBC 2 and BBC 1 sporadically. I think they waste too much on CBeebies CBBC and the general dumbing down of BBC 1 with reality TV to a point where it may as well be handed over to the independent sector. The jewel in the crown though is BBC 4. It's like Auntie Beeb has gathered together all the ideas and people from the 60's and the 70's with the brief to keep alive the spirit of the BBC. I never watch commercial television at all, always record and fast forward through the ads and if the show is worth having I will buy it on disc. What's that line from The Wall, "I've got thirteen channels of s**t on my TV to choose from" It's more like 1300 now :-)



Record Collector 3rd Oct 2015		Reminds me of the Australian program consider your verdict



Neil Forbes 3rd Oct 2015		@Cptbeefheart, you're in England, I'm in Australia and we both have the same problem with our TV stations showing total crap! The only variance is, Australia did away with TV viewer licences back in 1972.



Quad5point1 ● 2nd Oct 2015		As bad as it was I think it's a lot more entertaining than watching has-beens in the jungle eating bugs, dancing, baking, cooking, antique hunting or any of a hundred different ways to humiliate people, now that's really really bad. I despair at the TV today which is why I own so many Discs. If I had the choice I would definitely go back to a time when TV was more entertaining and educational, especially educational. We're all drowning in a sea of absolute Dross. Personally I blame it all on Margaret Thatcher ;-)



zabadak 6th Jun 2015		I seem to recall this was filmed with the jury made up of people who were actually eligible for jury service and they decided the fate of the defendant... :read:



zabadak 6th Jun 2015		The end theme was, of course, the B-side to Eye Level... :happy:



Monolith 5th Jun 2015		Cheap and nasty television. Emphasis on cheap................. oh and nasty.



BiggieTembo 5th Jun 2015		Amazed it ever got released on DVD... I can imagine the archive of The British Library wanting a copy - to show future generations how people were tortured in the late 70s.



Monolith 5th Jun 2015		Ah, The Beano & The Dandy......... biffbampow, gotta be a connection Biffo the Bear? Bash Street Kids?



BiggieTembo 5th Jun 2015		Yeah. The soundtrack to a million childhood illnesses is apt, 'cause I only ever used to see this after the good afternoon programmes were finished, when I was on a sickie from school. Which used to make me feel even more sick. This must be the TV equivalent of dying a slow, long, drawn-out death.



deltic 5th Jun 2015		Someone once described the end theme as 'The soundtrack to a million childhood illnesses'.

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