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Your Witness (1949)

Your Witness poster
Country
United States
Rating
5.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Each episode is a dramatized reenactment of a real court case. The host and star presents the facts and testimony from the actual legal proceedings.

seriouseducationalfactualrestrainedmoderate-pacedtheatricalmatter-of-factperiod-feel

What happens

Your Witness is an American dramatized court show that aired on the ABC network from September 19, 1949, to September 26, 1950. The 30-minute program first aired on Mondays at 8 P.M. EST, then moved to Sundays at 9 P.M., and ended up on Wednesdays at 9 P.M. It was based around real-life cases. Edmund Lowe starred in the program, which originated in Chicago from WENR. Your Witness was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Live Show in 1950. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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