From the Television Obscurities YouTube channel, here’s an incomplete promotional spot for ABC’s dramatized court show Day in Court. The series ran from October 1958 to February 1965.
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Exploring forgotten TV from the 1920s to today.
From the Television Obscurities YouTube channel, here’s an incomplete promotional spot for ABC’s dramatized court show Day in Court. The series ran from October 1958 to February 1965.
First off: that would be 1958 to 1965.
Secondly, the spot itself:
It’s too bad you weren’t able to find the whole promo.
As a kid, I saw this a lot on Channel 7, our ABC station here in Chicago.
In the long version, the resident judge has to make a little speech to that lady defendant; as memory serves, it went something like this:
” Don’t stand a chance? You stand more chances that anybody in the history of the world?
In this situation, you have a right to counsel, a right to a trial by jury, a right to an appeal!
Now all of this was put into effect down through the ages, just to protect you!
Millions of people all over this world go to bed each night, praying to God that they could have what you have – liberty under law!”
If that’s not the exact quote, it’s as close as six decades of memory can make it.
The judge, incidentally, was Edgar Allan Jones, Jr., who in real life was a law professor in California (he alternated with another actor on a day-to-day basis).
If memory serves (again), ABC did this show live, or live-on-tape; if they saved any of the shows, I’m not aware of it – and if they didn’t, that is a damn shame.
Thanks for the date correction. Fixed.