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Great Crimes and Trials — Storyline

Great Crimes and Trials 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.

Cast & Crew

Great Crimes and Trials — Series Details

Great Crimes and Trials — Episode Guide

Season 1

• E1: The Lindbergh Kidnapping (1993-11-02) — It was a crime that shattered America. A case so improbable that nobody ever dreamed it could happen. Despite a ransom being paid, after 72 days the body of American legend Charles
• E2: Lucky Luciano (1993-11-09) — He started out as a violent street thug, but soon became a ruthless leader, who rose to the top of the Mafia. He always kept one step ahead of the law and infamously once boasted,
• E3: Al Capone (1993-11-16) — On St Valentine’s Day 1929, the brutal massacre of six gangsters in a Chicago warehouse signalled the emergence of Al ‘Scarface’ Capone as the undisputed Godfather of crime. He was
• E4: Son of Sam (1993-11-23) — His name struck fear into the hearts of New Yorkers and brought terror to the streets. He unleashed all his hatred on the one group which he considered had rejected him the most –
• E5: The Hillside Stranglers (1993-11-30) — Within weeks, the hillsides around Los Angeles became the scene of a terrible carnage – more than ten strangled corpses. The police soon realised they were no longer dealing with a
• E6: John Dillinger – Public Enemy No. 1 (1993-12-07) — In the world of gangsters, he was notorious, ruthless, a man destined to become a legend. He turned to crime out of boredom and soon found it was too addictive to give up. He blaze
• E7: The Manson Family Murders (1993-12-14) — Charles Manson was the ultimate hippie leader with a difference. Together with his cult followers he pioneered a new revolution – a helter-skelter of bloody, calculated and remorse
• E8: The Jonestown Massacre (1993-12-21) — It was a crime that defied the imagination. In November 1978, deep in the jungles of Guyana the Rev Jim Jones gathered nearly 1,000 devoted followers around him, and with a simple
• E9: The Green Beret Killings (1993-12-28) — American army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald seemed to have everything going for him, good looks, charm, a commission in the Green Berets, a pretty wife and two daughters. Then one night
• E10: The Case of Dr. Sam Sheppard (1994-01-04) — He was young, handsome and successful – the ideal of American manhood. But when his wife was found battered to death, for him the American dream turned into a nightmare. Convicted
• E11: Neville Heath (1994-01-11) — In June 1946 after six years of war a girl was found whipped and murdered in a cheap London hotel. The hunt was soon on for a suave and sinister ex-RAF pilot who showed little remo
• E12: Ted Bundy (1994-01-18) — Women began to disappear in the Seattle area in the first half of 1974. Almost on a monthly basis after that other women mysteriously vanished – then on the grass hillside near Lak
• E13: Gary Gilmore (1994-01-25) — He was the double murderer who insisted on being executed. The question always remained: how badly did he want to die, and why? It was good that he believed in reincarnation as on
• E14: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1994-02-01) — He was a man determined to demonstrate his German purity. In 1934 he became a member of the SS. He killed not only Jews en masse, but was also responsible for the calculated deaths
• E15: John Gacy (1994-02-08) — Seven bodies were found in the crawl space under his home. Eight more were quickly uncovered in other parts of the house, some in trenches covered in quicklime. Eventually, the rem
• E16: The Massacre of the Tsar and the Imperial family (1994-02-15) — As civil war raged across Russia in 1918, the deposed Tsar and his family were imprisoned. On 16th July they were massacred and buried secretly in the forest. Almost immediately th
• E17: The Case of Dr Crippen (1994-02-22) — When an unassuming US doctor living in London in 1910 fell in love with his secretary, he was tied to a wife who he hated. His solution was murder. Dr Crippen and his mistress fled
• E18: The Great Train Robbery (1994-03-01) — In 1963 a mail train was ambushed in England. In one of the largest robberies ever, the gang got away with more than £2.5 million in used bank notes. The stories of police attempts
• E19: The Boston Strangler (1994-03-08) — For three years Albert DeSalvo stalked the streets of Boston, leaving behind him a hideous trail of human destruction. It was a crusade of evil, of a maniac who might never have be
• E20: Haigh the Acid Bath Murderer (1994-03-15) — In 1949 John George Haigh escorted Mrs Olivia Durand-Deacon down to his factory in Crawley, where he shot her in the head and then heaved her into a previously-prepared vat of acid
• E21: John Christie of Rillington Place (1994-03-22) — He had an obsession with disinfecting his flat. When he moved out, four bodies were discovered there and two more in the garden. When arrested it became horrifically clear that he
• E22: The Black Panther (1994-03-29) — When the kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl was linked to the brutal murder of three British subpostmasters the police knew they were dealing with a ruthless and callous killer. For
• E23: Murph the Surf (1994-04-05) — In late October 1964, thieves stole 22 gems from New York City’s Museum of Natural History. Three of the stones were so famous they would be impossible to sell. Within 48 hours, ai
• E24: The Hammersmith Murders (1994-04-11) — Despite a massive police operation, he seemed to anticipate their every move. He loved to taunt and mock the detectives and killed with impunity. Eventually, he was trapped by bluf
• E25: The McKay Kidnapping (1994-04-18) — It was the first in Britain for centuries. In a cruel and callous kidnapping a woman became the innocent victim of mistaken identity. After many efforts to catch her abductors, the
• E26: The Yorkshire Ripper (1994-04-25) — The reign of terror that followed the first murder of a Leeds prostitute in 1975, cut a trail of fear across northern England. The ‘Ripper’ never struck twice in the same place. Bu

Season 2

• E1: Charles Starkweather – The Badlands Killer (1996-04-01) — Born in Nebraska, Charlie Starkweather was a dissolute teenager and self-styled rebel. He dreamt of becoming rich and of earning a fortune through crime. In 1958 he realised his fa
• E2: Howard Hughes Autobiography Hoax (1996-04-08) — In December 1971 the world was amazed when it was announced that author Clifford Irving would be collaborating with millionaire recluse Howard Hughes on his official biography. It
• E3: The Scarsdale Shooting (1996-04-15) — On 10th March 1980, Jean Harris, headmistress of an exclusive East Coast girls school, drove to the house of her lover, Dr Herman Tarnower, author of the best selling ‘Scarsdale Di
• E4: The S.L.A. Kidnap of Patty Hearst (1996-04-22) — On 4th February 1974 Patricia Hearst the 19-year-old heiress to one of America’s largest media fortunes was kidnapped by an obscure terrorist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army.
• E5: Richard Speck – The Nurse Killer (1996-04-29) — In July 1966 alcoholic ex-marine Richard Speck woke up in Chicago after a night on the town and heard a radio report which sickened him. Eight nurses had been raped and slaughtered
• E6: Caryl Chessman – The Red Light Bandit (1996-05-06) — An habitual criminal from childhood, Caryl Chessman was also one of the cleverest of criminals. Condemned to death for repeated rapes, robberies, sexual perversion and kidnapping o
• E7: Roberts, Duddy and Witney – The Braybrook Street Massacre (1996-05-13) — The murder of a policeman in Britain is still a rarity, but on 12th August 1966 the nation was shocked when three were gunned down in West London after stopping a car. Within a few
• E8: The Bamber Family Murders (1996-05-20) — After a desperate phone call appealing for help police raced to a remote farmhouse in Essex, to stop a hysterical young woman running amok with a loaded hunting rifle. They arrived
• E9: Hitler and the Nuremberg Trials (1996-05-27) — Hitler and his Nazi party dominated Germany for only 12 years. But during that short period they not only brought about a World War in which tens of millions of troops and civilian
• E10: Stalin and the Massacre at Katyn Wood (1996-06-03) — In April 1943, Berlin announced that the bodies of 3,000 Polish officers had been found murdered by the Soviets at Katyn Wood. Stalin indignantly denied the accusation, even though
• E11: The Assassination of Gandhi (1996-06-10) — Mahatma Gandhi was revered as the father of modern India, whose campaign of non-violent rebellion finally persuaded the British to pull out of the ‘Jewel’ of their empire. His murd
• E12: The Assassination of Martin Luther King (1996-06-17) — The last 1950s and 1960s were a time of turmoil in America as the Civil Rights movement fought against racial segregation. Its leader was the charismatic preacher Martin Luther Kin
• E13: The Assassination of John F Kennedy (1996-06-24) — Few events have shocked a generation more than the murder of President John F Kennedy on 22nd November 1963 in Dallas. Young and charismatic he seemed to promise a new beginning fo
• E14: The A6 Murder (1996-07-01) — On 4th April 1962 James Hanratty was hanged for an apparently motiveless shooting of two lovers on the A6 main road near London. But much of the evidence had been circumstantial, a
• E15: Dennis Nilsen – The Kindly Killer (1996-07-08) — During the five years from 1978 – 83 an unassuming civil servant who lived in the Muswell Hill area of London became Britain’s worst mass murderer. Dennis Nilsen, who had been a po
• E16: Charles Whitman – The Austin Sniper (1996-07-15) — Although happily married, 25-year-old Charles Whitman was a worried man. He knew that he was in the grip of a terrible compulsion and on the verge of doing something appalling. Fin
• E17: The Boston Brinks Robbery (1996-07-22) — One of North America’s largest security companies, Brinks, has always been a target for robbers. One of the most spectacular attempts was made on 17th January 1950 when a gang brok
• E18: Richard Ramirez – The Night Stalker (1996-07-29) — During a two year rampage, a sadistic serial killer broke into the homes of families throughout California. He raped, mutilated and tortured more than 25 victims in one of the most
• E19: The Rosenbergs – Atom Spies? (1996-08-05) — On 19th June 1951 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg walked to the electric chair in Sing Sing prison to become the first married couple in the United States to be executed together. They
• E20: The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa (1996-08-12) — To this day, the exact fate of Jimmy Hoffa, one of the most corrupt and forceful US union leaders, remains a mystery. Hoffa had built up the Teamsters Union into a massive and rich
• E21: Dan White – The City Hall Killer (1996-08-19) — Dan White gave up his job with the San Francisco fire department to go into politics. Running on a strongly anti-gay platform he was elected to the post of supervisor but soon foun
• E22: Bonnie and Clyde (1996-08-26) — The film ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ made a romantic myth of these two young Texans. In reality they were illiterate, unfeeling killers who for a two year period, 1932 – 1934, spread terror
• E23: Wayne Williams – The Atlanta Killer (1996-09-02) — Experience has taught the Atlanta police department to expect about eight child murders a year – usually within families and usually quickly solved. But in 1979 they realised that
• E24: The Escapes from Alcatraz (1996-09-09) — The Escapes from Alcatraz. Documenting some of the attempted escapes from the notorious US island prison in San Francisco Bay.
• E25: The KKK Killings (1996-09-16) — Founded originally in the aftermath of the American Civil War as a defender of white southerners against the revenge of freed black slaves, this secret society became notorious for
• E26: New York Mafia Wars (1996-09-23) — Originating as a resistance movement against Arab invaders in 9th Century Sicily, this secret society was brought to the United States during the great waves of emigration from Ita

Season 3

• E1: Mark Chapman and the Killing of John Lennon — One man’s obsessive adoration of the world’s greatest rock star led to a transposition of personality and the death of John Lennon.
• E2: Gaston Dominici and the Drummond Murders — The brutal murder of Sir Jack Drummond and his family in the lonely Provencal countryside led to a sensational trial and the eventual sentencing of a peasant farmer to the guilloti
• E3: Henry Lee Lucas – The Highway Stalker
• E4: Donald Hume – The Setty Case
• E5: John Duffy – The Railway Killer
• E6: Graham Young – The Compulsive Poisoner
• E7: Sir Harry Oakes – The Bahamas Murder Mystery
• E8: Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce)
• E9: Defeo and Benson – Inheritance Killers
• E10: Donald Merrett – The Murderous Buccaneer
• E11: Roy Fontaine – The Deadly Butler
• E12: Buck Ruxton – The Ravine Bodies Mystery
• E13: Leonard Lake and Charles NG – The Calaveras County Serial Killings
• E14: John Bodkin Adams and Other Infamous Doctors
• E15: Heidnick and Dahmer – Killers for Company
• E16: Judge Joe Peel and the Chillingworth Murders
• E17: Sacco and Vanzetti – Anarchy and Murder
• E18: The Trunk Murders
• E19: Browne and Kennedy and Other Police Killings
• E20: The Siege of Sidney Street
• E21: Leopold and Loeb
• E22: The Zodiac Killer and Other Unsolved Serial Murders
• E23: The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
• E24: Pol Pot and the Killing Fields of Cambodia
• E25: The Massacre at Malmedy
• E26: Ma Barker and Other Public Enemies

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does Great Crimes and Trials have? 3 season(s) with 78 episodes.

Where can I watch Great Crimes and Trials? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.