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Legal television programs


  • Here are entered works on fiction and/or nonfiction television programs that feature the interaction of lawyers, prosecutors, clients, witnesses, and judges.
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    • Courtroom television programs
    • Law television programs
    • Lawyer television programs
    • Legal television programs (Drama)
    • Trial television programs
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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Legal television programs (Drama)
  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Simple justice [VR] 1993(summary: PBS docudrama that recounts the remarkable legal strategy and social struggle that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka)
    • found: Ally McBeal. Season 1, c2002.
    • found: GSAFD, 2000(Legal drama (Television programs), UF Courtroom drama)
    • found: Lopez, D. Films by genre, c1993(Lawyer Film (Courtroom Drama, Courtroom Picture, Legal Drama, Trial Melodrama))
    • found: Moving image genre-form guide, via WWW, July 13, 2004(Legal. Fictional work in which the capacity of the legal system to find the guilty and acquit the innocent is measured through the interaction of lawyers, prosecutors, clients, witnesses, and judges, largely in a courtroom setting. The law may prove capable of rendering justice, or it may prove to be a flawed system open to abuse and susceptible to perpetuating a miscarriage of justice. UF Courtroom)
    • found: Yee, M.M. Moving image materials : genre terms, 1988(Legal drama. Use for fictional genre films and programs which focus on the solution of a crime by a lawyer, usually the defense lawyer of the person accused of the crime. UF Courtroom drama, Lawyer drama)
    • found: WordIQ.com encyclopedia, via WWW, Aug. 16, 2004(Legal drama. Legal drama or courtroom drama are stories, usually written in novel form but sometimes in dramatic form (for the stage or TV), about topics related to the legal profession. Television shows that fall into this category include: Law & Order, Matlock, Perry Mason, The Practice, Fleet Street)
    • found: The classic TV archive home page, Aug. 16, 2004:US Legal drama (US Legal Drama series)
    • found: Elkins, J.R. Are lawyer films anti-lawyer?, via WWW, Aug. 16, 2004(legal drama pic or tv series; television lawyer dramas)
  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on fiction and/or nonfiction television programs that feature the interaction of lawyers, prosecutors, clients, witnesses, and judges.
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  • Change Notes

    • 2004-08-16: new
    • 2015-12-01: revised
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