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The Best Episodes of Kavanagh Q.C.

Every episode of Kavanagh Q.C. ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Kavanagh Q.C.!

James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills...
Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:ITV1

Best Episodes Summary

"Time of Need" is the best rated episode of "Kavanagh Q.C.". It scored 8.9/10 based on 92 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 3/22/1999. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Care in the Community".

  • Time of Need
    8.9/1092 votes
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    #1 - Time of Need

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 3/22/1999

    A junior minister at the Home Office decides to bring a case of malicious prosecution after she is cleared of indecent assault on a juvenile. But Kavanagh discovers that the truth is more extraordinary than he could ever have imagined and we will find out what really happen.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Care in the Community
    8.7/1087 votes
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    #2 - Care in the Community

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 3/24/1998

    Kavanagh heads to his hometown of Bolton to defend a man who, together with his partner, is accused of murdering their 14-month-old daughter. Kavanagh's tactics have to change however when it becomes clear that the young couple are telling quite different stories.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • End Games
    8.6/1071 votes
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    #3 - End Games

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 3/29/1999

    Kavanagh finds himself fighting prejudice and corruption when he acts for a client who is appealing against a murder conviction, can he find out the truth and overcomes all the odds that are against his client.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Stranger in the Family
    8.3/10106 votes
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    #4 - A Stranger in the Family

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/1996

    Even though he has not done a personal injury case for 20 years, Kavanagh is chosen as the leader in a case against a Thames River Recycling Centre, whose employee sustained spinal and brain damage from being struck by a swinging container. Meanwhile at home, Kavanagh's son besieges him with a plot to buy him a car.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The More Loving One
    8.3/1086 votes
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    #5 - The More Loving One

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 3/15/1999

    Kavanagh defends a convicted arsonist and former heroin junkie for blowing up his apartment and killing his addicted, pregnant girlfriend.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Sense of Loss
    8.2/1095 votes
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    #6 - A Sense of Loss

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/19/1996

    What appears to be a open and shut case in the murder of a young policewoman turns out not to be what it initially seems under cross examination.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ancient History
    8.2/10105 votes
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    #7 - Ancient History

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 3/17/1997

    Kavanagh prosecutes an apparently blameless family doctor in an unprecedented war crime trial. The court hears devastating testimony as victims of Nazi atrocities re-live their experiences in concentration camps, but it's left to a witness for the defence to reveal the final truth.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Briefs Trooping Gaily
    8.2/1072 votes
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    #8 - Briefs Trooping Gaily

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 3/31/1998

    Kavanagh defends a woman accused of killing her husband. Although she admits to killing him for repeatedly beating her, Kavanagh urges her not to admit it in court. Meanwhile,a colleague of Kavanagh's asks him to represent him before the Conduct Committee when he's accused of looking at the wrong brief.

    Director: Peter Smith

    Writer: Charles Wood

  • Dead Reckoning
    8.2/1075 votes
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    #9 - Dead Reckoning

    Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 4/21/1998

    When a trawler sinks off the coast of North Yorkshire, taking the lives of five people, an enquiry establishes that the boat was in disrepair. Kavanagh is on the team prosecuting the boat owner and father of one of the victims, charged with five counts of manslaughter. He must counter the owner's defence that a Royal Navy submarine surfaced near the trawler and capsized her.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Heartland
    8.1/10134 votes
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    #10 - Heartland

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/1995

    Kavanagh is asked to prosecute an ex-police officer turned vigilante when he is the driver of a car which hits a teenager.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Men of Substance
    8.1/1094 votes
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    #11 - Men of Substance

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/4/1996

    Kavanagh is forced to replace the prosecutor who suffers a heart attack while on a Customs case involving the importation of drugs from Holland.

    Director: Charles Beeson

    Writer: Matthew Hall

  • Blood Money
    8.1/1087 votes
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    #12 - Blood Money

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 3/10/1997

    When surgeon Hilary Jameson successfully operates on a computer tycoon involved in a car accident, she has every reason to suppose he'll survive. Within a matter of minutes, however, the patient's wife learns that he is dead. What happened in that brief period? This is the problem Kavanagh must solve when he prosecutes on behalf of the widow.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Memento Mori
    8.1/1090 votes
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    #13 - Memento Mori

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 3/17/1998

    Kavanagh defends a doctor accused of murdering his wife. Although the prosecution has several witnesses who provide evidence, the accused maintains his innocence. After the verdict, however, Kavanagh learns of an ironic twist.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bearing Witness
    8.1/1079 votes
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    #14 - Bearing Witness

    Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 4/7/1998

    Kavanagh represents a Jehovah's Witness mother when a hospital wants her 13-year-old son to have a blood transfusion that will save his life. When the mother refuses, Luke is made a ward of court and the hospital seeks judicial permission to go ahead with the transfusion. The hospital wins its action, and Luke is given a transfusion.

    Director: Peter Smith

    Writer: Edward Canfor-Dumas

  • Job Satisfaction
    8.0/1089 votes
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    #15 - Job Satisfaction

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/2/1996

    The son and daughter of a prosperous farmer are charged with the murder of their father and stepmother. A planted shotgun seems to provide the only evidence linking them to the gruesome killings. Kavanagh represents the daughter and loses the case, but in the appeal Kavanagh convinces the court that judicial errors were made in the original trial and his client is released.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ties That Bind
    8.0/1083 votes
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    #16 - The Ties That Bind

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 4/7/1997

    Kavanagh fights for justice on behalf of a young man brutally killed, in a rare private prosecution for murder. The odds, however, are against him, since there are powerful reasons for the truth to be kept hidden.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Previous Convictions
    8.0/1079 votes
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    #17 - Previous Convictions

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 3/8/1999

    Twenty-two bystanders at a motor-cross race are killed when an RAF plane crashes into the crowd, and Kavanagh defends the radicalized young woman responsible.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Diplomatic Baggage
    7.8/10101 votes
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    #18 - Diplomatic Baggage

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 3/24/1997

    Kavanagh discovers how dark the corridors of power can be when he defends the daughter of a British ambassador on a charge of murdering an Austrian journalist. Meanwhile, Kavanagh's son moves into a squat.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Nothing But the Truth
    7.7/10174 votes
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    #19 - Nothing But the Truth

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1995

    Kavanagh is called upon to defend an alleged rapist, David Armstrong, a young labourer accused of attacking the housewife he works for in her home.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Family Affair
    7.7/10113 votes
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    #20 - A Family Affair

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/1995

    Kavanagh represents a determined father in a bitter custody battle, but finds himself having to persuade the eager dad not to take matters into his own hands after learning of his previous kidnappings.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Sweetest Thing
    7.6/10112 votes
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    #21 - The Sweetest Thing

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/24/1995

    Kavanagh defends a prostitute accused of murdering a wealthy and prominent businessman who was also a client. Everything points to her guilt except her own passionate protestations of innocence. Meanwhile, Kavanagh's daughter, Lizzie, has an interview for her dream job in Brussels, and Kavanagh's junior, Julia, takes part in a cricket match.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • True Commitment
    7.6/1099 votes
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    #22 - True Commitment

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/26/1996

    The daughter of a wealthy Jewish businessman and her boyfriend plan to murder a member of the neo-Nazi opposition. They are successful in killing a 17-year-old skinhead at a demonstration, yet when Mark, the boyfriend, is arrested, he claims the killing was an accident. Meanwhile, the Kavanagh's home life is abruptly ruffled by the news that Kate, an undergraduate at Cambridge, is having an affair with her married tutor.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mute of Malice
    7.6/10126 votes
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    #23 - Mute of Malice

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/1997

    Kavanagh defends a client who has become mute after announcing that he has killed his brother.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Innocency of Life
    7.6/1068 votes
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    #24 - The Innocency of Life

    Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 4/14/1998

    Kavanagh is asked to defend a Reverend accused of sexual harassment by a recently widowed parishioner. When Kavanagh begins to make inquiries regarding the death of the victim's husband, she mysteriously withdraws her complaint against the Reverend and the case collapses. Later Kavanagh discovers that she has become engaged to the vicar and finds himself defending her against charges that she murdered her husband.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Burning Deck
    7.4/10104 votes
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    #25 - The Burning Deck

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/11/1996

    Kavanagh represents the son of a Vice Admiral charged with arson. Despite his best efforts, the court finds Kavanagh's client guilty. The truth of the matter, however, turns out to be more complex. Meanwhile, the Kavanagh children organize a surprise anniversary party for their parents

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A