Great Crimes and Trials
| Great Crimes and Trials | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary |
| Created by | Philip Nugus and Johnathan Martin (Nugus/Martin Productions LTD) |
| Starring | Robert Powell |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 3 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | The History Channel |
| Original release | 1992 – 1995 |
Great Crimes and Trials (sometimes titled Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century) is an early 1990s BBC documentary television series. The program consists of archival material combined with never before seen interviews to reconstruct a renowned crime, examining the felon's motives, details of the crime, the investigations and the trial. Each episode is narrated by actor Robert Powell.
In the United Kingdom the program is shown on weekdays on the Crime & Investigation Network. The first series was released on DVD by Columbia Tristar in 2005, and the third series was released on DVD by Network DVD in 2011. The first and second series were released on video by Columbia Tristar in 1997.
Episodes
- Note: Included are the original episode titles. The titles of several episodes have been changed since their initial broadcast.
Series 1 (1992)
| Number | Episode | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping | |
| 2 | Lucky Luciano | |
| 3 | Al Capone | |
| 4 | Son of Sam | |
| 5 | The Hillside Stranglers | |
| 6 | John Dillinger - Public Enemy No. 1 | |
| 7 | The Manson Family Murders | |
| 8 | The Jonestown Massacre | |
| 9 | The Green Beret Killings | |
| 10 | The Case of Dr. Sam Sheppard | |
| 11 | Neville Heath | |
| 12 | Ted Bundy | |
| 13 | Gary Gilmore | |
| 14 | The Trial of Adolf Eichmann | |
| 15 | John Gacy | |
| 16 | The Massacre of the Tsar and the Imperial family | |
| 17 | Dr. Crippen | |
| 18 | The Great Train Robbery | |
| 19 | The Boston Strangler | |
| 20 | Haigh the Acid Bath Murderer | |
| 21 | John Christie of Rillington Place | |
| 22 | The Black Panther | |
| 23 | Murph the Surf | |
| 24 | The Hammersmith Murders | |
| 25 | The McKay Kidnapping | |
| 26 | The Yorkshire Ripper | |
Series 2 (1993)
| Number | Episode | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charles Starkweather | |
| 2 | Howard Hughes Biography Hoax | |
| 3 | Jean Harris | |
| 4 | The Kidnap of Patty Hearst | |
| 5 | Richard Speck | |
| 6 | Caryl Chessman | |
| 7 | Roberts, Duddy and Witney | |
| 8 | Jeremy Bamber | |
| 9 | Hitler and the Nuremberg Trials | |
| 10 | Stalin and the Massacre at Katyn Wood | |
| 11 | The Assassination of Gandhi | |
| 12 | The Assassination of Martin Luther King | |
| 13 | The Kennedy Assassination | |
| 14 | The A6 Murder | |
| 15 | Dennis Nilsen | |
| 16 | Charles Whitman | |
| 17 | US Brinks Robbery | |
| 18 | The Night Stalker | |
| 19 | The Rosenbergs | |
| 20 | Jimmy Hoffa | |
| 21 | Dan White | |
| 22 | Bonnie and Clyde | |
| 23 | Wayne Williams | |
| 24 | Alcatraz | Episode features several stories of attempted escape from Alcatraz |
| 25 | The Ku Klux Klan | |
| 26 | The Rise of The Mafia | |
Series 3 (1995)
| Number | Episode | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mark Chapman and the Killing of John Lennon | |
| 2 | Gaston Dominici | |
| 3 | Henry Lee Lucas | |
| 4 | Donald Hume | |
| 5 | John Duffy | Episode made before revelation of Duffy's acquaintance |
| 6 | Graham Young | |
| 7 | Sir Harry Oakes | |
| 8 | Lord Haw-Haw | |
| 9 | DeFeo and Benson | Episode features the individual stories of Ronald DeFeo, Jr. and Steven Benson |
| 10 | Donald Merrett | |
| 11 | Roy Fontaine | |
| 12 | Buck Ruxton | |
| 13 | Leonard Lake and Charles Ng | |
| 14 | John Bodkin Adams | |
| 15 | Heidnik and Dahmer | Episode features the individual stories of Gary M. Heidnik and Jeffrey Dahmer |
| 16 | Judge Joe Peel | |
| 17 | Sacco and Vanzetti | |
| 18 | The Trunk Murders | Episode involves two similar stories of murder |
| 19 | Browne and Kennedy and other Police Killings | Episode features the case of Browne and Kennedy as well as Bently and Craig and Guenther Podola |
| 20 | The Siege of Sidney Street | |
| 21 | Leopold and Loeb | |
| 22 | The Zodiac Killer | Episode features the cases of the California Zodiac Killer as well as the New York Zodiac and the Green River Killer. Episode made before capture of both the New York Zodiac and the Green River Killer |
| 23 | The Assassination of Robert Kennedy | |
| 24 | Pol Pot and the Killing fields of Cambodia | |
| 25 | The Malmedy Massacre | |
| 26 | Ma Barker and Other Public Enemies | |
References
External links
- "The Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century". Nugus Martin. Production company's website with episode listings. Archived from the original on 4 July 2010.
- (Crime and Investigation listing)
- (IMDb Listing)
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