The Verdict Is Yours
Directed by Max Morgan Witts, Eric Price, Mike Wooller, Peter Plummer, James Ormerod
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'The Verdict Is Yours' premiered on September 2, 1957, in the CBS Daytime lineup. Unscripted, the show featured real lawyers playing the lawyers and judge. The defendants and witnesses on the program were professional actors who ad-libbed their dialogue, although they were given a general outline of what they were supposed to say. Sportscaster Jim McKay was the original reporter, providing commentary on the trials. He was succeeded in 1960 by newsman Bill Stout.Read moreLess
'The Verdict Is Yours' premiered on September 2, 1957, in the CBS Daytime lineup. Unscripted, the show featured real lawyers playing the lawyers and judge. The defendants and witnesses on the program were professional actors who ad-libbed their dialogue, although they were given a general outline of what they were supposed to say. Sportscaster Jim McKay was the original reporter, providing commentary on the trials. He was succeeded in 1960 by newsman Bill Stout.
The story
'The Verdict Is Yours' premiered on September 2, 1957, in the CBS Daytime lineup. Unscripted, the show featured real lawyers playing the lawyers and judge. The defendants and witnesses on the program were professional actors who ad-libbed their dialogue, although they were given a general outline of what they were supposed to say. Sportscaster Jim McKay was the original reporter, providing commentary on the trials. He was succeeded in 1960 by newsman Bill Stout.
Cast & crew
James FoxCouncil for the Prosecution
Jane HyltonMrs. Vickers
Daphne AndersonCast
Richard CaldicotCast
Micheál Mac Liammóir
Anthony SharpCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Max Morgan Witts
- Director
- Eric Price
- Director
- Mike Wooller
- Writer
- Cedric Wallis
- Writer
- H.V. Kershaw
- Writer
- John Hopkins
- Writer
- Phillip Grenville Mann
- Writer
- Cyril Abraham
- Writer
- Fenton Bresler
- Writer
- John Whitney
- Writer
- Geoffrey Bellman
- Director
- Peter Plummer
- Director
- James Ormerod