Consider Your Verdict

Consider Your Verdict is an Australian television series made by Crawford Productions for the Seven Network originally screening from February 1961 through to June 1964. It was based on a radio series with the same name broadcast on 3DB in Melbourne from 1958 to 1960.

Production
The television series was recorded at the HSV-7 Fitzroy Tele-theatre in Melbourne. There were 163 one-hour episodes. The series was also popular in New Zealand.

Synopsis
The series made use of a revolving cast to portray various court cases. The actors were given the details of a given case and instructed to improvise their performances to give the series a more authentic, immediate feel.

Cast

 * Terence Donovan as Keith Upton (1961–63)
 * George Whaley as Don Fraser / Stanley Naughton (1962–64, 3 episodes)
 * Robert Jewell as Dave Betts (1962/63, 2 episodes)
 * Edward Howell as Costella (1963, 2 episodes)
 * Sheila Florance as Jocelyn Matthews / Laura Radford (1962/63, 2 episodes)
 * Reg Gorman as Reg Fraser (1964/66, 2 episodes)
 * Anne Charleston (1962/64, 2 episodes)
 * Liz Harris as Kath Hutchins (1962, 1 episode)
 * Elspeth Ballantyne as Cynthia Martin (1 episode)
 * Annette Andre as The Other Woman (1961, 1 episode)
 * Harold Blair as Tommy Bent (1962, 1 episode)
 * Juliana Allen as Lynne Driscoll (1962, 1 episode)
 * Wynn Roberts as Defence Counsel Robert Winter (1962, 1 episode)
 * David Watt as Leslie Butler (1962, 1 episode)
 * Vernon Spencer as Graham Butler (1962, 1 episode)
 * Tommy Dysart as Jack McLean (1963, 1 episode)
 * Maggie Millar as Lydia Durant (1962, 1 episode)
 * James Scullin as Rocky Hawkins (1962, 1 episode)
 * Raymond Fedden as Ed Rowe (1962, 1 episode)
 * Isobel Kuhl as Gladys Willetts (1962, 1 episode)
 * George Fairfax as Crown Prosecutor John Taylor (1962, 1 episode)
 * Melissa Jaffer (1961, 1 episode)
 * Ian Turpie (1964, 1 episode)
 * James Elliott (1962, 1 episode)
 * Max Phipps (1964, 1 episode)
 * Tom Oliver (1964)
 * Leonard Teale (1961–64)
 * Nigel Lovell (1962)
 * Mark Edwards
 * Joe McCormick (1962)
 * Denys Burrows (1962)

Notable Episodes

 * Queen Versus Bent starring Harold Blair

Awards
! scope="row" | 1962
 * Logie Awards
 * Best Drama Series
 * Consider Your Verdict
 * Won