Trial & Retribution
| Trial & Retribution | |
|---|---|
 DVD cover | |
| Created by | Lynda La Plante |
| Starring |
David Hayman Victoria Smurfit Kate Buffery Dorian Lough Mark Smith Inday Ba Sarah Ozeke |
| Country of origin | UK |
| No. of series | 12 |
| No. of episodes | 22 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | (approx.) 2 hours |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV, STV, UTV |
| Picture format | 4:3, 16:9 |
| Original release |
19 October 1997 – 13 February 2009 |
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series was broadcast over two nights. In 2008, series 10 had ten episodes, the longest run of the drama. The last series, the twelfth, aired in February 2009.
Characters
Police officers
- DCS Michael "Mike" Walker played by David Hayman, from 1997 to 2009.
- DCI Róisín Connor played by Victoria Smurfit, from 2003 to 2009.
- DI Pat North played by Kate Buffery, from 1997 to 2002.
- DS David "Satch" Satchell played by Dorian Lough, from 1997 to 2009.
- DS Sam Palmer played by Vince Leigh, from 2007 to 2009.
- DS Jeff Batchley played by Paul Kynman, from 1998 to 2002.
- DS Barbara MacKenzie played by Barbara Thorn from 1998 to 2003.
- DC Lisa West played by Inday Ba from 2002 to 2003 and Sarah Ozeke from 2004 to 2007.
- DC Vivien Watkins played by Sandra James-Young from 1999 to 2002.
- DC Doug Collins played by James Simmons from 2000 to 2002.
- DC Jack Hutchens played by George Asprey from 1998 to 1999.
Forensic officers
- Dr John Foster played by Richard Durden from 1997 to 2004.
- Dr Jean Mullins played by Gemma Jones from 2003 to 2009.
- Tom played by Andrew Scarborough 1997.
Barristers
- Derek Waugh played by Nicholas Blane from 1997 to 2002.
- Robert Rylands played by Corin Redgrave from 1997 to 2002.
- Willis Fletcher played by David Fleeshman from 1997 to 2002.
- Rupert Halliday played by Simon Callow from 1998 to 2002.
Judges
- Judge Winfield played by George Pensotti from 1997 to 2005.
Style
Every episode was unique, while the plot was often complicated. There was frequent use of split screen, normally three images in one screen. Similar effects were frequently used in other series such as 24 and Spooks, and in later episodes of the ITV police-soap series, The Bill.
The camera angles used in the split-screen configuration of Trial & Retribution tended to be used to present the situation from different perspectives e.g.:
- Angle from the suspects.
- Angle from behind and in front of the characters.
- Angle from the crime-scene.
- Angle from different sides of the town.
Series and episodes
List of Trial & Retribution episodes
DVD releases
| DVD Name | Ep# | Region 2 | Region 1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The First Collection | 4 | 27 September 2004 | 30 September 2008 |
| The Second Collection | 4 | 14 March 2005 | 3 March 2009 |
| The Third Collection | 3 | 1 September 2008 | 27 October 2009 |
| The Fourth Collection | 3 | 27 December 2008 | 15 June 2010 |
| The Fifth Collection | 4 | 2 February 2009 | 19 June 2012 |
| The Sixth Collection | 4 | 30 March 2009 | 1 January 2013 |
Trial & Retribution is distributed by Acorn Media Group.
External links
- Trial and Retribution at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution II at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution III at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution IV at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution V at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution VI at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution VII "Suspicion" at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution VIII "Blue Eiderdown" at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution IX "The Lovers" at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution X "Sins of the Father" at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution XI "Closure" at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution XII "Paradise Lost" at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution XIII "Curriculum Vitae" at the Internet Movie Database
- Trial and Retribution XIV "Mirror Image" at the Internet Movie Database
References
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