Kavanagh Q.C. - The Complete Collection DVD

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All 27 episodes from the five seasons of the television drama starring John Thaw as Kavanagh QC one of the country&s leading criminal advocates in London who has worked his way up from a northern working class background In & Nothing But the Truth& Kavanagh&s wife feeling neglected because his work keeps him away from the family begins an affair with another barrister In & Heartland& Kavanagh is asked to prosecute an ex-policeman who hospitalised a young tearaway In &A Family Affair& Kavanagh decides to take on a family case
- of which he usually steers well clear
- involving a wealthy businessman who takes the law into his own hands by snatching his young son from school In & The Sweetest Thing& Kavanagh defends a prostitute accused of murdering a wealthy client & True Commitment& sees a right-wing skinhead stabbed during a clash between radical left-wingers & a group of Neo-Nazis In & Men of Substance& Kavanagh takes on the prosecution of two men charged with smuggling heroin into the country In & The Burning Deck& Kavanagh & his friend & colleague Eleanor Harker (Geraldine James) are both in Portsmouth defending clients on charges of arson at their naval court martial In &A Sense of Loss& Kavanagh finds himself defending an 18-year-old who is charged with the murder of a policewoman while breaking & entering a newsagents &A Stranger in the Family& sees Kavanagh working on the case of student who has sustained spinal injuries & brain damage in an accident at the Thameside recycling centre where he had his holiday job In & Job Satisfaction& Kavanagh defending a woman accused of conspiring with her brother to murder her father & stepmother finds his concentration slipping in court when he receives some bad family news In & Mute of Malice& Kavanagh has problems defending a client who is either unable or unwilling to speak In & Blood Money& surgeon Hilary Jameson (Josette Simon) finds herself being prosecuted by Kavanagh for negligence when a computer tycoon she has operated on dies after surgery In & Ancient History& Kavanagh begins to question the truth when he defends family doctor Alexander Beck (Frederick Treves) against charges of having carried out war crimes In & Diplomatic Baggage& Kavanagh experiences dark wranglings in the corridors of power when he defends British ambassador Sir Alan Jackson&s (Michael Feast) daughter Natasha (Lena Headey) on a charge of murdering a journalist In & The Ties That Bind& Kavanagh is approached by his old friend Paddy Spence (Frank Grimes) to take on a private prosecution for murder & In God We Trust& sees Kavanagh agreeing to help out when his former colleague Julia Piper now married & living in America asks him to assist with the appeal of convicted murderer William Dupree (Leon Herbert) In & Memento Mori& Kavanagh now back at work following his wife&s death agrees to defend family GP Dr Felix Crawley (Tom Courtenay) when he is accused of murdering his wife In & Care in the Community& Kavanagh travels to his home town of Bolton to defend a young couple charged with murdering their baby daughter In & Briefs Trooping Gaily& Kavanagh faces a challenge when one of his clients openly confesses in court to killing her husband In & Bearing Witness& Kavanagh represents a Jehovah&s Witness who refuses to give her son a life-saving blood transfusion In & Innocency of Life& Kavanagh defends a vicar when one of his female parishioners accuses him of sexual harrassment In & Dead Reckoning& Kavanagh prosecutes the entrepreneurial owner of a trawler lost at sea with all its men missing In & Previous Convictions& a jet crashes into a moto-cross course after the RAF mechanic who serviced it was distracted by his wife&s affair with another man In & The More Loving One& an explosion leads to a young man being charged with the murder of his girlfriend who it later turns out was carrying their child In & Time of Need& a female junior minister at the Home Office is charged with indecent assault on a juvenile In & End Games& Kavanagh represents a man who was wrongly jailed for armed robbery as a result of the negligence of his lawyer the late Sir Ronald Tibbit QC
- Kavanagh&s former employer Finally the two-hour special & The End of Law& sees Kavanagh representing a businessman charged the murder of a beautiful young Hungarian computer science graduate after her body is discovered in his hotel room