Consider Your Verdict

Television series

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 (1961–63)
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 as Reg Fraser (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

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

^ 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.