8.8/1019 votesLoading...#1 - The Death of Dracula: Part 3
Season 2 Episode 39 - Aired 3/30/1973
Rita Mattson is cross examined by James Elliot QC. She is rattled when he claims her husband was threatening to leave her for a younger woman. Brig. Sir Ferdinand Tennyson-Pusey gives evidence about how he believed gun trick worked.
Director: Mark Cullingham
Writer: David Fisher
- 8.7/1024 votesLoading...
#2 - The Death of Dracula: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 37 - Aired 3/28/1974
Count Alucard, a Dracula-themed illusionist, is shot dead on stage when a stunt involving a gun goes horribly wrong. His assistant (his wife, Rita) is accused of having tampered with the gun, killing him after discovering yet another of his affairs. did she purposely kill her husband, or was the gun faulty?
Director: Mark Cullingham
Writer: David Fisher
- 8.6/1034 votesLoading...
#3 - Conspiracy: Regina v Luckhurst and Sawyer (3)
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 12/15/1972
In his summing up, the defence barrister James Elliot QC accuses the night watchman of extreme anti-left wing bias. Could this save the young couple?
Director: Roger Tucker
Writer: Paul Wheeler
- 8.4/107 votesLoading...
#4 - A Case of Murder: Part 2
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 2/28/1974
The Judge tells the jury to disregard the implication made by the defence that Dr. Fulmer is to blame. Insp. McGovern discovered the account books hidden in cupboard. Maria Novati adds that Mr.Oldbury, told her, he didn't like the Povey's
Director: June Wyndham-Davies
Writer: Michael Chapman
- 8.3/1020 votesLoading...
#5 - The Death of Dracula: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 38 - Aired 3/29/1973
Lingerie model Kathleen Nolan gives evidence of the events leading to the death of Norman Mattson, at the 501 Club. Rita Mattson takes the stand and claims in the 8 years of her marriage she never knew how the silver bullet trick worked.
Director: Mark Cullingham
Writer: David Fisher
- 8.3/108 votesLoading...
#6 - Proof Spirits Part 3
Season 10 Episode 3 - Aired 3/11/1981
Vera Barnes - better known as "Madame Veda Bronski", a spiritualist and professed clairvoyant - is charged with obtaining money by deception from widow Elizabeth Penn. The Prosecution claim that she took advantage of the vulnerable Mrs. Penn and tricked her into donating £17500, supposedly towards a spiritualist centre that was never built. The Defence respond that Madame Bronski does appear to have unusual gifts and even these are disputed she has a sincere belief that she can contact the dead and help people like Mrs. Penn.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1010 votesLoading...
#7 - Theft By Necessity
Season 2 Episode 46 - Aired 4/18/1973
A retired lawyer decides to defend himself in court after he is charged with shoplifting.
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Writer: David Blunt
- 8.2/107 votesLoading...
#8 - Do Your Worst: Part 1
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/30/1974
Following relegation Fulchester Rovers manager Aleksander Gruda is sacked. However he claims players Skelhorne, McIver and Appledene deliberately played badly in order to achieve this end. All three now stand trial for conspiracy.
Director: Anthea Browne-Wilkinson
Writer: H.V. Kershaw
- 8.2/107 votesLoading...
#9 - Do Your Worst: Part 2
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/31/1974
Barney Skelhorn's ex-wife Margaret tells how she overheard the three players discussing how they would have to be careful against under performing United. They decided to give away penalties. Margaret later passed this on to manager Gruda.
Director: Anthea Browne-Wilkinson
Writer: H.V. Kershaw
- 8.2/107 votesLoading...
#10 - Duress: Part 3
Season 3 Episode 33 - Aired 3/15/1974
The court erupts when James Mallard and his mother are caught using sign language to bypass the rule of law. Mallard's father, John Ryan claims his son's girlfriend won't becoming to alibi him, for the stolen car, because she is married.
Director: Stephen Butcher
Writer: Alun Richards
- 8.2/108 votesLoading...
#11 - Proof Spirits Part 2
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 3/10/1981
Vera Barnes - better known as "Madame Veda Bronski", a spiritualist and professed clairvoyant - is charged with obtaining money by deception from widow Elizabeth Penn. The Prosecution claim that she took advantage of the vulnerable Mrs. Penn and tricked her into donating £17500, supposedly towards a spiritualist centre that was never built. The Defence respond that Madame Bronski does appear to have unusual gifts and even these are disputed she has a sincere belief that she can contact the dead and help people like Mrs. Penn.
Director: Brian Mills
Writer: Janey Preger
- 8.1/1028 votesLoading...
#12 - Regina v Bryant (1)
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/1972
Following an armed raid by four masked men on a Fulchester bank in which £30,000 was stolen, local villain Harry Bryant was identified as one of the robbers. In court, he decides to sack his defence team at the start of the trial and defend himself. He bases his defence on unreliable identification and on the fact that due to his criminal background, the police are determined to 'fit him up' for a crime that he did not commit.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1030 votesLoading...
#13 - Regina v Barnes: Whatever Happened to George Robins?: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1973
George Robins is a second hand car dealer and well-known ladies man. He has disappeared. Blood stains were found at his country cottage. A local car thief, Harold Barnes, is charged with his murder, but Barnes claims that Robins has not been murdered but has faked his own death so that his wife can claim a large insurance pay-out. The prosecution will try to prove that Barnes has indeed murdered Robins even though no body has ever been found.
Director: Bob Hird
Writer: Paul Wheeler
- 8.1/1026 votesLoading...
#14 - Regina v Barnes: Whatever Happened to George Robins?: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/4/1973
Detective Inspector Robert takes the stand to describe the investigation into the disappearance of George Robins and the arrest of Harold Barnes. Dr. John Gould gives a breakdown of the forensic evidence and the link to Barnes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1020 votesLoading...
#15 - The Mugging of Arthur Simmons: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 32 - Aired 3/15/1974
P.C. Kershaw takes the stand to give details of the arrest of the two defendants. With Mrs Palmer evidence tainted there are now doubts that John Dempsey was the second man. Walter Sissons QC also queries Kershaw's impartiality.
Director: Richard Doubleday
Writer: Paul Wheeler
- 8.1/1023 votesLoading...
#16 - Love Thy Neighbour: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 34 - Aired 3/21/1974
A man is left paralyzed after being shot on his own doorstep following an argument about a betting slip. Two brothers living next door stand accused of attempted murder but claim the gun went off by accident during a scuffle.
Director: Brian Parker
Writer: Sean Hignett
- 8.1/109 votesLoading...
#17 - The Gilded Cage: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 47 - Aired 4/19/1973
An estranged wife has accused her husband of rape. The husband denies the charge and claims that his wife has made up the allegation in anger after he refused to increase her maintenance payments.
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Writer: David Blunt, Nicholas Mander
- 8.1/109 votesLoading...
#18 - The Woman Least Likely: Part 1
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1974
Irene Rutland faces charges of theft, criminal damage and wounding a police officer. The officer was called to a restaurant after Mrs. Rutland was involved in an argument over what she considered an excessive bill. The prosecution argue that she was in a drunken rage and struck the officer while resisting arrest. She was also found in possession of a handbag belonging to another woman - Linda Brightson - and she is also charged with theft of this item and damage to the restaurant. The Defence accept there was a disagreement but argue Mrs. Rutland did not steal the handbag and that the officer was injured by accident.
Director: Voytek
Writer: Maggie Allen
- 8.1/109 votesLoading...
#19 - A Case of Murder: Part 1
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 2/27/1974
Charles Oldbury died in the bathroom of the old people's home where he lived. Dr. Fulmer who attended the scene thought he had suffered a heart attack and then drowned in the bath; she tried to resuscitate him without success. However the owners of the home - Margaret and Kenneth Povey - are now on trial accused of his murder and of defrauding his estate of £30 000 with the aid of convicted solicitor's clerk Leonard Saxton. The prosecution claim that they fabricated a change to his will for their benefit and then killed him in the bath, trying to make his death appear to be one of drowning. Both defendants deny all charges. They insist the change to the will was genuine and Mr. Oldbury's death was a tragic accident.
Director: June Wyndham-Davies
Writer: Michael Chapman
- 8.0/1025 votesLoading...
#20 - Doctor's Neglect? (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/10/1972
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Director: Richard Everitt
Writer: Paul Wheeler
- 8.0/1030 votesLoading...
#21 - Conspiracy: Regina v Luckhurst and Sawyer (2)
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 12/14/1972
One of the accused, Trevor Luckhurst, takes the witness stand, but his behaviour doesn't help his case.
Director: Roger Tucker
Writer: Paul Wheeler
- 8.0/1025 votesLoading...
#22 - Regina v Barnes: Whatever Happened to George Robins?: Part 3
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/5/1973
Defendant Harold Barnes alleges that George Robins is still alive. Prosecutor Jonathan Fry QC causes a stir when he calls Robins as a witness. Barnes' wife Catherine denies the she had an affair with Robins and alibis her husband.
Director: Bob Hird
Writer: Paul Wheeler
- 8.0/108 votesLoading...
#23 - Act of Vengeance: Regina v Collings: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/1/1974
Alan Collings fiancee Pauline Ellis gives evidence about the long running feud between the father's Alan and Brian and how family party ended in threats. Brian Collings takes the stand in his defence but is unable to produce an alibi.
Director: Howard Baker
Writer: Scott Forbes
- 8.0/1022 votesLoading...
#24 - Freak-Out: Regina v Marlow: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 3/7/1974
The effects of hallucinogenic drugs provide a theme in this case. Peta Best, a leading sixties fashion photographer, has been found dead in her studio with a cloth pushed down her throat. Natasha Marlow, a young model who was with Peta Best at the time of her death, is charged with murder but claims that herself and the photographer were 'freaking out' after an L.S.D. session and she would therefore have been incapable of committing murder. Light is shed on the sleazy world of pornography as the trial progresses.
Director: Alan Gibson
Writer: Bruce Stewart
- 8.0/107 votesLoading...
#25 - Duress: Part 2
Season 3 Episode 32 - Aired 3/14/1974
Det. Sgt. Charles Atrass continues under cross examination. The defence claims there was no evidence to hold James Mallard but within 3 hours he given a confession. Mallard admits he is known to Atrass and saw him waiting outside cinema.
Director: Stephen Butcher
Writer: Alun Richards
The Best Episodes of Crown Court
Every episode of Crown Court ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Crown Court!
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system...
Genre:Drama
Network:ITV1
Best Episodes Summary
"The Death of Dracula: Part 3" is the best rated episode of "Crown Court". It scored 8.8/10 based on 19 votes. Directed by Mark Cullingham and written by David Fisher, it aired on 3/30/1973. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Death of Dracula: Part 1".