
Judge John Deed
Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in th...
Judge John Deed
Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in the cases before him. It also stars Jenny Seagrove as the barrister Jo Mills, frequently the object of Deed's desire. A pilot episode was broadcast on 9 January 2001, followed by the first full series on 26 November 2001. The sixth and last series concluded on 18 January 2007. The programme then went on an indefinite break after Shaw became involved in another television programme, and he and Seagrove expressed a wish for the format of the series to change before they filmed new episodes. By 2009, the series had officially been cancelled. The six series produced make it the longest-running BBC legal drama. The factual accuracy of the series is often criticised by legal professionals and journalists; many of the decisions taken by Deed are unlikely to happen in a real court. The romanticised vision of the court system created by Newman caused a judge to issue a warning to a jury not to let the series influence their view of trials—referring to an episode where Deed flouts rules when called up for jury duty. Another episode led to complaints about biased and incorrect information about the MMR vaccine, leading the BBC to ban repeats of it in its original form. All six series have been released on DVD in the UK.
Judge John Deed
Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in th...

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Episode 1: Exacting Justice
Deed presides over the murder trial of Maurice Hart, a black defendant who shot and killed the drive...
Episode 0: Exacting Justice (Pilot)
Deed presides over the murder trial of Maurice Hart, a black defendant who shot and killed the drive...
Episode 1: Rough Justice
A charismatic MI5 informer appears in Deed's court charged with battering his wife, and the judge co...
Episode 2: Duty of Care
Deed presides over the case of a young man's death on a building site, in which the well-connected c...
Episode 3: Appropriate Response
Romero, a serial rapist sentenced by Deed to twelve years imprisonment, is out on parole after servi...
Episode 4: Hidden Agenda
Deed presides over a murder trial. An old man suffering from cancer died from a morphine overdose, a...
Episode 1: Political Expediency
After a call girl is found dead in a skip, an Arab sheikh's chauffeur is charged with killing her, b...
Episode 2: Abuse of Power
After a young woman is battered to death, the mentally retarded Gary Patterson confesses and the pol...
Episode 3: Nobody's Fool
Deed rekindles his old love affair with Francesca Rochester, and at first he fails to notice that sh...
Episode 4: Everyone's Child
Deed has to give judgement in a court battle between a child and his parents. Jason Powell (who is r...
Episode 1: Health Hazard
Deed has two difficult new cases in his court. In one, a woman with a brain tumour claims it was cau...
Episode 2: Judicial Review
Deed gets angry when a brother judge deals leniently with a man convicted of political offences from...
Episode 3: Conspiracy
Jo Mills leads for the prosecution and Brian Cantwell for the defence when a British member of parli...
Episode 4: Economic Imperative
The case of Diana Hulsey, a single mother with terminal brain cancer who is suing a telephone compan...
Episode 1: Lost and Found
Jo Mills was planning to take time off work, but then she agrees to defend a man who escaped trial s...
Episode 2: Above the Law
Deed has three drug-dealers in his court accused of a vicious gang killing, and he comes under press...
Episode 3: In Defence of Others
Deed has the case before him of a man charged with killing a paedophile, but the jury find the defen...
Episode 4: Defence of the Realm
Deed's fling with a woman claimant in his court gets him into hot water. His brother judges are appa...
Episode 5: Separation of Powers
Deed has an environmental case before him, in which a company operating a large-scale waste incinera...
Episode 6: Popular Appeal
An angry contestant in a TV show kills another competitor on camera, and the show's producers face...
Episode 1: Hard-Gating
Deed questions an unpleasant prison officer closely about the death of Paul Settle, a young prisoner...
Episode 2: My Daughter, Right or Wrong
In a case in Deed's court, his daughter Charlie is the junior counsel defending Henry Free - an anim...
Episode 3: Lost Youth
Deed has to judge a case concerning Jo's boyfriend, Marc Thompson. Marc wants to take the decision n...
Episode 4: Silent Killer
In court, Deed has to judge the case of a couple who are fighting their local council over a police...
Episode 5: One Angry Man
Deed's superiors want him out of the way, and they arrange for him to be called for jury service on...
Episode 6: Heart of Darkness
In Deed's court, Jo Mills acts for a mother whose former husband, Paul Robson-Alan, wants their baby...

Episode 1: War Crimes (1)
Deed's involvement in the case of a far-right British National Party councilor brings him to the not...
Episode 2: War Crimes (2)
Continuing the story of a war crimes trial in The Hague. Deed finds the defendant is a victim of the...
Episode 3: Evidence of Harm (1)
Deed risks a constitutional crisis in pursuit of justice for a soldier?s family. Jo Mills asks him t...
Episode 4: Evidence of Harm (2)
Deed delves deeper into why funding for the soldier to sue the pharmaceutical company was withdrawn...
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