Consider Your Verdict
{{Short description|Television series}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}}
{{Use Australian English|date=September 2013}}
{{Infobox television
| genre = Legal drama
| country = Australia
| language = English
| num_seasons = 4
| num_episodes = 163
| runtime = 60 minutes
| company = Crawford Productions
| network = Seven Network
| first_aired = {{start date|1961|2}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1964|6}}
}}
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.{{Cite news |last=Berkeley |first=Margaret |date=1962-07-04 |title=It's A Family Verdict |page=2 |work=The Australian Women's Weekly |publisher=National Library of Australia |department=Television Supplement |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47511995 |access-date=2013-05-19}}{{Cite book |last=Moran |first=Albert |title=Moran's Guide to Australian TV Series |last2=Pinne |first2=Peter |publisher=Australian Film, Television and Radio School |year=1993 |isbn=9780642184627 |page=125 |language=en}}
Production
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
{{Awards table|5|caption={{sronly|Award nominations for Consider Your Verdict}}}}
|-
! scope="row" | 1962
| Best Drama Series
| Consider Your Verdict
| {{won}}
| {{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
{{end}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title}}
- [http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/CYV.htm Consider Your Verdict] at Classic Australian Television
- [https://archive.today/20121128191614/http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=0;parentid=;query=138099;querytype=;rec=0;resCount=10 Consider Your Verdict] at the National Film and Sound Archive
{{Logie Award for Most Popular Drama Series on Australian Television}}
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Category:1960s Australian drama television series
Category:Australian legal television series
Category:Black-and-white Australian television shows
Category:Australian English-language television shows
Category:Seven Network original programming
Category:Television shows set in Victoria (state)
Category:1961 Australian television series debuts
Category:1964 Australian television series endings
Category:Television series by Crawford Productions
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