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The Worst 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...

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  1. Background image for Nothing But the Truth
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    #1 - Nothing But the Truth

    S1:E1

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - Dead Reckoning

    S4:E6

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Sweetest Thing
    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #3 - The Sweetest Thing

    S1:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Innocency of Life
    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #4 - The Innocency of Life

    S4:E5

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Diplomatic Baggage
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Diplomatic Baggage

    S3:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Memento Mori
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    #6 - Memento Mori

    S4:E1

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Burning Deck
    7.4/10(106 votes)

    #7 - The Burning Deck

    S2:E3

    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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for True Commitment
    7.6/10(102 votes)

    #8 - True Commitment

    S2:E1

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Heartland

    S1:E2

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for A Family Affair
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - A Family Affair

    S1:E3

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Job Satisfaction
    8.0/10(91 votes)

    #11 - Job Satisfaction

    S2:E6

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Mute of Malice
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Mute of Malice

    S3:E1

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Blood Money

    S3:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Ties That Bind
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Ties That Bind

    S3:E5

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for In God We Trust
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - In God We Trust

    S3:E6

    Driven by a desire for justice, and to help his former colleague Julia Piper, now married to an American lawyer, Kavanagh flies to the US to assist with the appeal of a convicted murderer on Florida's death row.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Care in the Community
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Care in the Community

    S4:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Briefs Trooping Gaily
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Briefs Trooping Gaily

    S4:E3

    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.

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    Director:Peter Smith
  19. Background image for Bearing Witness
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Bearing Witness

    S4:E4

    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.

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  20. Background image for Men of Substance
    8.1/10(97 votes)

    #19 - Men of Substance

    S2:E2

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

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    8.1/10(108 votes)

    #20 - A Stranger in the Family

    S2:E5

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Previous Convictions
    8.1/10(81 votes)

    #21 - Previous Convictions

    S5:E1

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for A Sense of Loss
    8.2/10(97 votes)

    #22 - A Sense of Loss

    S2:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.3/10(88 votes)

    #23 - The More Loving One

    S5:E2

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for End Games
    8.6/10(73 votes)

    #24 - End Games

    S5:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Time of Need
    8.9/10(94 votes)

    #25 - Time of Need

    S5:E3

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Nothing But the Truth" is the worst rated episode of "Kavanagh Q.C.". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/3/1995. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Dead Reckoning".