Great Crimes and Trials

Great Crimes and Trials
Genre Documentary
Created by Philip Nugus and Johnathan Martin (Nugus/Martin Productions LTD)
Starring Robert Powell
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of series 3
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Release
Original network The History Channel
Original release 1992 – 1995

Great Crimes and Trials (sometimes titled Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century) is an early 1990s BBC documentary television series. The program consists of archival material combined with never before seen interviews to reconstruct a renowned crime, examining the felon's motives, details of the crime, the investigations and the trial. Each episode is narrated by actor Robert Powell.

In the United Kingdom the program is shown on weekdays on the Crime & Investigation Network. The first series was released on DVD by Columbia Tristar in 2005, and the third series was released on DVD by Network DVD in 2011. The first and second series were released on video by Columbia Tristar in 1997.

Episodes

Series 1 (1992)

Number Episode Notes
1 The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
2 Lucky Luciano
3 Al Capone
4 Son of Sam
5 The Hillside Stranglers
6 John Dillinger - Public Enemy No. 1
7 The Manson Family Murders
8 The Jonestown Massacre
9 The Green Beret Killings
10 The Case of Dr. Sam Sheppard
11 Neville Heath
12 Ted Bundy
13 Gary Gilmore
14 The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
15 John Gacy
16 The Massacre of the Tsar and the Imperial family
17 Dr. Crippen
18 The Great Train Robbery
19 The Boston Strangler
20 Haigh the Acid Bath Murderer
21 John Christie of Rillington Place
22 The Black Panther
23 Murph the Surf
24 The Hammersmith Murders
25 The McKay Kidnapping
26 The Yorkshire Ripper

Series 2 (1993)

Number Episode Notes
1 Charles Starkweather
2 Howard Hughes Biography Hoax
3 Jean Harris
4 The Kidnap of Patty Hearst
5 Richard Speck
6 Caryl Chessman
7 Roberts, Duddy and Witney
8 Jeremy Bamber
9 Hitler and the Nuremberg Trials
10 Stalin and the Massacre at Katyn Wood
11 The Assassination of Gandhi
12 The Assassination of Martin Luther King
13 The Kennedy Assassination
14 The A6 Murder
15 Dennis Nilsen
16 Charles Whitman
17 US Brinks Robbery
18 The Night Stalker
19 The Rosenbergs
20 Jimmy Hoffa
21 Dan White
22 Bonnie and Clyde
23 Wayne Williams
24 Alcatraz Episode features several stories of attempted escape from Alcatraz
25 The Ku Klux Klan
26 The Rise of The Mafia

Series 3 (1995)

Number Episode Notes
1 Mark Chapman and the Killing of John Lennon
2 Gaston Dominici
3 Henry Lee Lucas
4 Donald Hume
5 John Duffy Episode made before revelation of Duffy's acquaintance
6 Graham Young
7 Sir Harry Oakes
8 Lord Haw-Haw
9 DeFeo and Benson Episode features the individual stories of Ronald DeFeo, Jr. and Steven Benson
10 Donald Merrett
11 Roy Fontaine
12 Buck Ruxton
13 Leonard Lake and Charles Ng
14 John Bodkin Adams
15 Heidnik and Dahmer Episode features the individual stories of Gary M. Heidnik and Jeffrey Dahmer
16 Judge Joe Peel
17 Sacco and Vanzetti
18 The Trunk Murders Episode involves two similar stories of murder
19 Browne and Kennedy and other Police Killings Episode features the case of Browne and Kennedy as well as Bently and Craig and Guenther Podola
20 The Siege of Sidney Street
21 Leopold and Loeb
22 The Zodiac Killer Episode features the cases of the California Zodiac Killer as well as the New York Zodiac and the Green River Killer. Episode made before capture of both the New York Zodiac and the Green River Killer
23 The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
24 Pol Pot and the Killing fields of Cambodia
25 The Malmedy Massacre
26 Ma Barker and Other Public Enemies

References


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