Continues the season of feature films specially made for television.
Starring Arthur Hill, Vera Miles

Scottsboro: Southern USA, the mid 1930s - scene of probably the most controversial trial in American legal history. A group of nine black youths were accused of the rape of two white girls. Eight were sentenced to the electric chair, the youngest, only 13, to imprisonment. When Judge Horton came to their defence it ruined his career and started a legal battle which kept the boys in jail for a combined 130 years. This brilliant dramatisation of the events provides the basis for one of the most powerful television films ever made.

Films: page 13 (First showing on British television)