Famous Jury Trials is a dramatized court show that first appeared on radio, followed by television, and then in the movies.
The series ran on radio from 1936 through 1949, then on television from 1949 through 1952, and finally in a movie in 1971.
Episodes re-enacted historic actual court cases.
[3] Famous Jury Trials first aired on October 12, 1949, on DuMont, and was a live dramatized court show [4] with each episode lasting 30 minutes.
Frank Bunetta and C. Harrell were the directors, and John L. Clark was the writer.