Consider Your Verdict

*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 –; 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 (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)

Notable Episodes[edit]

Queen Versus Bent starring Harold Blair

Awards[edit]

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[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

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[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.

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

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