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.
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) Anne Haddy as Frances Naughton (1962, 1 episode) 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) Don Crosby as Michael Nelson (2 episodes) 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) John Frawley (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 Osbiston as Kevin Tressell (1962, 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) Terry Norris as Crown Prosecutor (1963/1964, 8 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
! scope="row" | 1962 | Logie Awards | Best Drama Series | Consider Your Verdict
References
External links
Consider Your Verdict at Classic Australian Television at the National Film and Sound Archive