Consider Your Verdict

Consider Your Verdict
Genre	Legal drama
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	163
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Crawford Productions
Original release
Network	Seven Network
Release	February 1961 (1961-02) – June 1964 (1964-06)

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 episodes. 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.

Cast

• Terence Donovan as Keith Upton (1961–1963)
• Anne Charleston (1962/1964, 2 episodes)
• Annette Andre as The Other Woman (1961, 1 episode)
• Ben Gabriel (1964, 1 episode)
• David Watt as Leslie Butler (1962, 1 episode)
• Denys Burrows (1962)
• Edward Howell as Costella (1963, 2 episodes)
• Elspeth Ballantyne as Cynthia Martin (1 episode)
• George Fairfax as Crown Prosecutor John Taylor (1962, 1 episode)
• George Whaley as Don Fraser / Stanley Naughton (1962–1964, 3 episodes)
• Harold Blair as Tommy Bent (1962, 1 episode)
• Ian Turpie (1964, 1 episode)
• Isobel Kuhl as Gladys Willetts (1962, 1 episode)
• James Elliott (1962, 1 episode)
• James Scullin as Rocky Hawkins (1962, 1 episode)
• Joe McCormick (1962)
• John Fegan as Owen Bresley (1962, 1 episode)
• Juliana Allen as Lynne Driscoll (1962, 1 episode)
• Kit Taylor (1964)
• Leonard Teale (1961–1964)
• Liz Harris as Kath Hutchins (1962, 1 episode)
• Lyndel Rowe as Helen Humphries (1964, 1 episode)
• Maggie Millar as Lydia Durant (1962, 1 episode)
• Mark Edwards
• Marion Edward as Myra Fuller (1963, 1 episode)
• Max Phipps (1964, 1 episode)
• Melissa Jaffer (1961, 1 episode)
• Nigel Lovell (1962)
• Raymond Fedden as Ed Rowe (1962, 1 episode)
• Reg Gorman as Reg Fraser (1964/1966, 2 episodes)
• Robert Jewell as Dave Betts (1962/1963, 2 episodes)
• Sheila Florance as Jocelyn Matthews / Laura Radford (1962/1963, 2 episodes)
• Stewart Ginn as Robert Wilkins (1962, 1 episode)
• Terry McDermott as Det. Sgt. Bronson / William Draper (1962/1964, 3 episodes)
• Tom Oliver (1964)
• Tommy Dysart as Jack McLean (1963, 1 episode)
• Vernon Spencer as Graham Butler (1962, 1 episode)
• Walter Pym as Julius Armstrong (1964, 1 episode)
• Wynn Roberts as Defence Counsel Robert Winter (1962, 1 episode)

Notable episodes

• Queen Versus Bent starring Harold Blair

Awards

Award nominations for Consider Your Verdict

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
1962	Logie Awards	Best Drama Series	Consider Your Verdict	Won	[ citation needed ]

References

1. 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.
2. Moran, Albert; Pinne, Peter (1993). Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series. Australian Film, Television and Radio School. p. 125. ISBN   9780642184627.

External links

• Consider Your Verdict at IMDb  
• Consider Your Verdict at Classic Australian Television
• Consider Your Verdict at the National Film and Sound Archive