Great Crimes and Trials

Great Crimes and Trials
Genre	Documentary
Created by	Philip Nugus and Johnathan Martin (Nugus/Martin Productions LTD)
Starring	Robert Powell
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	3
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	The History Channel
Release	1992 – 1995

Great Crimes and Trials (sometimes titled Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century) 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.

Episodes

• Note: Included are the original episode titles. The titles of several episodes have been changed since their initial broadcast.

Series 1 (1992)

Number	Episode	Notes
1	The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
2	Lucky Luciano
3	Al Capone
4	Son of Sam
5	The Hillside Stranglers
6	John Dillinger - Public Enemy No. 1
7	The Manson Family Murders
8	The Jonestown Massacre
9	The Green Beret Killings
10	The Case of Dr. Sam Sheppard
11	Neville Heath
12	Ted Bundy
13	Gary Gilmore
14	The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
15	John Gacy
16	The Massacre of the Tsar and the Imperial family
17	Dr. Crippen
18	The Great Train Robbery
19	The Boston Strangler
20	Haigh the Acid Bath Murderer
21	John Christie of Rillington Place
22	The Black Panther
23	Murph the Surf
24	The Hammersmith Murders
25	The McKay Kidnapping
26	The Yorkshire Ripper

Series 2 (1993)

Number	Episode	Notes
1	Charles Starkweather
2	Howard Hughes Biography Hoax
3	Jean Harris
4	The Kidnap of Patty Hearst
5	Richard Speck
6	Caryl Chessman
7	Roberts, Duddy and Witney
8	Jeremy Bamber
9	Hitler and the Nuremberg Trials
10	Stalin and the Massacre at Katyn Wood
11	The Assassination of Gandhi
12	The Assassination of Martin Luther King
13	The Kennedy Assassination
14	The A6 Murder
15	Dennis Nilsen
16	Charles Whitman
17	US Brinks Robbery
18	The Night Stalker
19	The Rosenbergs
20	Jimmy Hoffa
21	Dan White
22	Bonnie and Clyde
23	Wayne Williams
24	Alcatraz	Episode features several stories of attempted escape from Alcatraz
25	The Ku Klux Klan
26	The Rise of The Mafia

Series 3 (1995)

Number	Episode	Notes
1	Mark Chapman and the Killing of John Lennon
2	Gaston Dominici
3	Henry Lee Lucas
4	Donald Hume
5	John Duffy	Episode made before revelation of Duffy's acquaintance
6	Graham Young
7	Sir Harry Oakes
8	Lord Haw-Haw
9	DeFeo and Benson	Episode features the individual stories of Ronald DeFeo, Jr. and Steven Benson
10	Donald Merrett
11	Roy Fontaine
12	Buck Ruxton
13	Leonard Lake and Charles Ng
14	John Bodkin Adams
15	Heidnik and Dahmer	Episode features the individual stories of Gary M. Heidnik and Jeffrey Dahmer
16	Judge Joe Peel
17	Sacco and Vanzetti
18	The Trunk Murders	Episode involves two similar stories of murder
19	Browne and Kennedy and other Police Killings	Episode features the case of Browne and Kennedy as well as Bently and Craig and Guenther Podola
20	The Siege of Sidney Street
21	Leopold and Loeb
22	The Zodiac Killer	Episode features the cases of the California Zodiac Killer as well as the New York Zodiac and the Green River Killer. Episode made before capture of both the New York Zodiac and the Green River Killer
23	The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
24	Pol Pot and the Killing fields of Cambodia
25	The Malmedy Massacre
26	Ma Barker and Other Public Enemies

External links

• "The Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century". Nugus Martin. Production company's website with episode listings. Archived from the original on 4 July 2010.
• (Crime and Investigation listing)
• (IMDb Listing)