This anthology series was introduced by Robert Wagner. The reason as Dick Powell had died by the time this was broadcast.
Powell plays army prosecutor Major Ed Clayborn. The defendant is Captain John Wycliff (Robert Webber) a former army sniper turned academic.
He has elected a military hearing after being accused of killing Joseph Closter, a German spy who sold nuclear secrets to the Russians.
After serving his sentence Closter was leaving America to go behind an iron curtain country. Then he was shot dead.
Wycliff had talked about killing Closter and regarded him as an enemy of the USA.
Wycliff's lawyer Major George Torsett (Ed Begley) is a ferocious advocate and demolishes the credibility of many of the prosecution witnesses.
Clayborn has a dilemma. The main defence witness is Mrs Eve Emerson, a married woman who confesses to having an affair with Wycliff. She claims that they were in a cheap hotel at the time of the killing.
Emerson also happens to be Clayborn's sister.
Made in 1962, American viewers would had been familiar with courtroom antics on television courtesy of Perry Mason.
This one was full of lawyers moralising, sermonising and leading their witnesses. Maybe it reflected the times. Clayborn using the military courtroom to admonish his sister's morals.
