Great Crimes and Trials(1993)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1993-11-02
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 9.0
Votes: 2
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 78
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.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 26E01
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
Air Date: 1993-11-02
It was a crime that shattered America. A case so improbable that nobody ever dreamed it could happen. Despite a ranso...
E02
Lucky Luciano
Air Date: 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 alwa...
E03
Al Capone
Air Date: 1993-11-16
On St Valentine’s Day 1929, the brutal massacre of six gangsters in a Chicago warehouse signalled the emergence of Al...
E04
Son of Sam
Air Date: 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...
E05
The Hillside Stranglers
Air Date: 1993-11-30
Within weeks, the hillsides around Los Angeles became the scene of a terrible carnage - more than ten strangled corps...
E06
John Dillinger - Public Enemy No. 1
Air Date: 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 b...
E07
The Manson Family Murders
Air Date: 1993-12-14
Charles Manson was the ultimate hippie leader with a difference. Together with his cult followers he pioneered a new ...
E08
The Jonestown Massacre
Air Date: 1993-12-21
It was a crime that defied the imagination. In November 1978, deep in the jungles of Guyana the Rev Jim Jones gathere...
E09
The Green Beret Killings
Air Date: 1993-12-28
American army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald seemed to have everything going for him, good looks, charm, a commission in th...
E10
The Case of Dr. Sam Sheppard
Air Date: 1994-01-04
He was young, handsome and successful - the ideal of American manhood. But when his wife was found battered to death,...
E11
Neville Heath
Air Date: 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 ...
E12
Ted Bundy
Air Date: 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 wo...
E13
Gary Gilmore
Air Date: 1994-01-25
He was the double murderer who insisted on being executed. The question always remained: how badly did he want to die...
E14
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Air Date: 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 Je...
E15
John Gacy
Air Date: 1994-02-08
Seven bodies were found in the crawl space under his home. Eight more were quickly uncovered in other parts of the ho...
E16
The Massacre of the Tsar and the Imperial family
Air Date: 1994-02-15
As civil war raged across Russia in 1918, the deposed Tsar and his family were imprisoned. On 16th July they were mas...
E17
The Case of Dr Crippen
Air Date: 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 h...
E18
The Great Train Robbery
Air Date: 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 ...
E19
The Boston Strangler
Air Date: 1994-03-08
For three years Albert DeSalvo stalked the streets of Boston, leaving behind him a hideous trail of human destruction...
E20
Haigh the Acid Bath Murderer
Air Date: 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 ...
E21
John Christie of Rillington Place
Air Date: 1994-03-22
He had an obsession with disinfecting his flat. When he moved out, four bodies were discovered there and two more in ...
E22
The Black Panther
Air Date: 1994-03-29
When the kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl was linked to the brutal murder of three British subpostmasters the police ...
E23
Murph the Surf
Air Date: 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 ...
E24
The Hammersmith Murders
Air Date: 1994-04-11
Despite a massive police operation, he seemed to anticipate their every move. He loved to taunt and mock the detectiv...
E25
The McKay Kidnapping
Air Date: 1994-04-18
It was the first in Britain for centuries. In a cruel and callous kidnapping a woman became the innocent victim of mi...
E26
The Yorkshire Ripper
Air Date: 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...
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