Crown Prosecutor (1995)

Genre

legal drama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 10 episodes

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a British legal drama about a team of Crown Prosecutors who bring criminal cases before local magistrates. It follows their professional lives as they handle prosecutions, showing the day-to-day work of these lawyers in the mid-1990s.

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What happens

Crown Prosecutor is a British television legal drama series, created and principally written by Nick Collins, first broadcast on BBC1 on 23 February 1995. A single series of ten episodes were broadcast, typically at 8:30pm on Thursdays, with episodes repeatedly on Fridays at 1:50pm as part of the channel's daytime schedule. The series was produced in-house by the BBC under the BBC Worldwide moniker. The series follows ensemble cast of various Crown Prosecutors, who bring cases before local magistrates in the United Kingdom. The series stars Tom Chadbon, David Daker, Deborah Grant, Jessica Stevenson, Paris Jefferson, Shaun Parkes and Michael Praed. The series was noted at the time as being the first series to regularly examine the lives of modern British Crown prosecutors. While lawyers "for the prosecution" had been seen on British television, these were depictions of a different era in British jurisprudence. Throughout the bulk of 20th century, in most parts of England and Wales, prosecution of criminal cases was handled by the police or, in some cases, an entity directly attached to the Home Office. Crown Prosecutor was thus the first serious examination of what it was like to work in the Crown Prosecution Service, a completely police-independent body, which itself had only been established in 1985. The series has not been repeated since its original broadcast; however, a single episode is available to watch on YouTube. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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