8.1/1030 votes#1 - 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 votes
#2 - 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
- 8.0/1025 votes
#3 - 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
- 7.4/1027 votes
#4 - Blackmail: Regina v Brewer and Brewer: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/10/1973
The spurned lover of a Church of England clergyman is accused of blackmail after threatening to expose their affair unless the vicar pays £400.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: David Weir
- 7.3/1023 votes
#5 - Blackmail: Regina v Brewer and Brewer: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 1/11/1973
When Rev. Frank Warrender gives contradicting evidence, Charles Lotterby asks the judge to treat him as hostile witness. Police Inspector Savage confirms that it was Mrs Warrender who brought the blackmail letters to the police.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: David Weir
- 7.1/1024 votes
#6 - Blackmail: Regina v Brewer and Brewer: Part 3
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 1/12/1973
Following Janet Brewer's revelations about her health and her breakdown, the judge turns down Barry Deeley's request to dismiss the case. Despite pleas from her doctor and father the judge maintains there is still a case to answer.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: David Weir
- 7.3/1026 votes
#7 - Sunset of Arms: Fitton v Pusey: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 1/17/1973
A military historian has been accused of libel by a British Army Major following the publication of a book on the British Army's involvement in the Korean War. The author claims that the Major abandoned his post and left his company of soldiers to be massacred by the North Koreans. The Major insists that he was the last man standing in the conflict and escaped to safety only after the rest of his company was wiped out. Was the Major a hero, or a coward?
Director: Brian Mills
Writer: Bruce Stewart
- 7.5/1025 votes
#8 - Sunset of Arms: Fitton v Pusey: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/18/1973
Morton Lass, an American tank commander seconded to Hill 329 claims that Major Fitton begged to leave with him. A second witness; Australian soldier Ronald Harstrong maintains he found Fitton suffering from PTSD.
Director: Brian Mills
Writer: Bruce Stewart
- 7.2/1025 votes
#9 - Sunset of Arms: Fitton v Pusey: Part 3
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/19/1973
Radio operator Corporal Batley, who was believed to have died on Hill 329 makes a shock appearance in court. He has now changed his name to William Truscott and his evidence accuses Major Fitton of lying about what really happened.
Director: Brian Mills
Writer: Bruce Stewart
- 7.8/1023 votes
#10 - Persimmons and Dishwashers: Regina v Curl: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/24/1973
Fulchester's notorious Curl brothers are accused of demanding money with menaces and GBH. The court will hear that the brothers had been conducting a reign of terror over Fulchester's club and bar owners through a Chicago-style protection racket. After refusing to pay the brothers for protection, a number of club owners suffered injuries ranging from falls down stairs, feet burned with electric fires and attacks with hammers. Indeed, one of the brother's own enforcers has disappeared and is believed to have been buried under the new M16 motorway foundations. The defense insist that the brothers are legitimate businessmen.
Director: Bob Hird
Writer: David Fisher
- 7.8/1020 votes
#11 - Persimmons and Dishwashers: Regina v Curl: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/25/1973
The second day of the trial of brothers George and Arnold Curl. The pair are accused of running a Fulchester protection racket. Much of the evidence comes from Stephen Telfer, a club owner who is now in a coma following a savage beating.
Director: Bob Hird
Writer: David Fisher
- 7.8/1022 votes
#12 - Persimmons and Dishwashers: Regina v Curl: Part 3
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/1973
Facing a second day under cross examination, George Curl claims he found religion while in Reading Gaol. However his brother Arnold gets rattled when questioned about hiring Arther McGraw to injure Stephen Telfer.
Director: Bob Hird
Writer: David Fisher
- 7.1/1021 votes
#13 - A Public Mischief: Regina v Baker and Crawley: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/1973
Town Hall corruption is exposed in this case, as two employees of Fulchester Borough Council are charged with fraudulently purchasing land which was at the centre of a planning permission wrangle. The land was then quickly re-sold at a much higher price than that originally paid by the council employees to the previous owner, a local market gardener, who claims that he only sold his land when he was informed that a new motorway by-pass would run through his farming land. Did the Council employees use their inside knowledge for their own financial gain?
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Sean Hignett
- 6.7/1021 votes
#14 - A Public Mischief: Regina v Baker and Crawley: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/1/1973
Councilor John Fairley is cross examined by Jonathan Fry QC. The previous day he accused Margaret Crawley of failing to mention, she was a close friend of councilor; Charles Baker, when she applied for planning permission.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Sean Hignett
- 6.5/1020 votes
#15 - A Public Mischief: Regina v Baker and Crawley: Part 3
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/2/1973
The trial of councillor Charles Baker and his former secretary Margaret Crawley took a dramatic turn when she refused to take the stand and give evidence in her defence. Charles Baker is cross examined Crawley's barrister Barry Deeley.
Director: Gerry Mill
Writer: Sean Hignett
- 7.8/1025 votes
#16 - Portrait of an Artist: Kingsley v Messiter: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1973
Before his death a year ago, a renowned artist wrote a will in which he bequeathed his estate to his favourite model, Rose Messiter. The will is being challenged by his business partner Brenda Kingsley, who had been named as sole beneficiary in an earlier will written by the artist. She claims that at the time of writing the second will, the artist was not of sound mind. Ms Kingsley is now challenging the second will and is laying claim to the artist's estate.
Director: Richard Doubleday
Writer: Peter Wildeblood
- 7.5/1020 votes
#17 - Portrait of an Artist: Kingsley v Messiter: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1973
Graphologist Mr Pascoe gives evidence on behalf defendant Rose Messiter and can not rule out that Martin Emsworth's writing was forged. Brenda Kingsley claims, although she acted a witness to the Will, she did not see the contents.
Director: Richard Doubleday
Writer: Peter Wildeblood
- 7.9/1022 votes
#18 - Portrait of an Artist: Kingsley v Messiter: Part 3
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1973
Rose Messiter is cross examined by Helen Tate. She accuses Messiter of being a witness to the original Will and wouldn't be provided for. Under pressure, from Tate, Messiter admits she wrote the second Will but denies it was forgery.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1028 votes
#19 - A Crime In Prison - Regina v Ager and Lanigan : Part 1
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1973
A prison officer at Fulchester's Park Moor Prison is charged with accepting bribes to smuggle a number of prohibited items into and out of the prison by an inmate, who is also facing charges.
Director: Bob Hird
Writer: Tony Hoare
- 7.7/1023 votes
#20 - A Crime in Prison: Regina v Ager and Lanigan: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/1973
Detective Inspector Barber returns to the stand to give details of the arrest of Prison Officer Robert Agar. Angela Mercer evidence indicated that Agar took items inside the prison, for George Lanigan, in return for sexual favours.
Director: Bob Hird
Writer: Tony Hoare
- 7.7/1022 votes
#21 - A Crime in Prison: Regina vs. Ager and Lanigan: Part 3
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/13/1973
On the final day of the trial, Prison Officer Robert Ager takes the stand. in his own defence. Barrister Barry Deeley maintains that Agar was bullied and threatened, by Lanigan, into bringing illegal goods into the prison
Director: Bob Hird
Writer: Tony Hoare
- 7.8/1024 votes
#22 - Infanticide or Murder?: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/21/1974
A 15 year old schoolgirl has given birth to an illegitimate baby. Within a week of the birth, the body of the baby has been found buried in the girl's back garden by police acting on a tip-off. The schoolgirl's father (the baby's grandfather) has been charged with the murder of the baby after it was discovered that the infant had been strangled.
Director: Mark Cullingham
Writer: David Fisher
- 7.7/1023 votes
#23 - Infanticide or Murder?: Part 2
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1974
Dominic Collins is cross examined by barrister Helen Tate. He maintains he did not strangle the baby and was it dead when he found it. 15-year-old Mary Collins shocks the court by claiming she strangled the baby moments after the birth
Director: Mark Cullingham
Writer: David Fisher
- 7.8/1023 votes
#24 - Infanticide or Murder?: Part 3
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/23/1974
The previous day ended sensationally with both Dominic Collins' wife and daughter confessing to killing the baby. Barrister Helen Tate accuses Mary of researching the Infanticide Act in bid to get her father off a murder charge.
Director: Mark Cullingham
Writer: David Fisher
- 7.8/108 votes
#25 - Act of Vengeance: Regina v Collings: Part 1
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 2/28/1974
A 21 year old man has been blinded after an attacker flung acid into his face. Was the attack carried out by his own cousin following a family feud?
Director: Howard Baker
Writer: Scott Forbes
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Regina v Barnes: Whatever Happened to George Robins?: Part 1" is the best rated episode of "Crown Court" season 2. It scored 8.1/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by Bob Hird and written by Paul Wheeler, it aired on 1/3/1973. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Regina v Barnes: Whatever Happened to George Robins?: Part 2".