Kavanagh QC (The Complete Collection) - 10-DVD Box Set ( Kavanagh Q.C. - Complete Collection - Series 1 to 5 ) ( Kavanagh Q.C. - Complete Collection - Series One to Five )

Kavanagh QC (The Complete Collection) - 10-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kavanagh Q.C. - Complete Collection - Series 1 to 5
Alternate Title: Kavanagh Q.C. - Complete Collection - Series One to Five
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
2074 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Charles Beeson
Jack Gold

Written By:
Ted Childs
Russell Lewis

Actors:
John Thaw ..... James Kavanagh QC (27 episodes, 1995-2001)
Nicholas Jones ..... Jeremy Aldermarten QC / ... (25 episodes, 1995-2001)
Oliver Ford Davies ..... Peter Foxcott QC / ... (24 episodes, 1995-2001)
Cliff Parisi ..... Tom Buckley (22 episodes, 1995-2001)
Lisa Harrow ..... Lizzie Kavanagh / ... (16 episodes, 1995-1997)
Tom Brodie ..... Matt Kavanagh (15 episodes, 1995-1999)
Daisy Bates ..... Kate Kavanagh / ... (13 episodes, 1995-2001)
Anna Chancellor ..... Julia Piper / ... (11 episodes, 1995-1997)
Jenny Jules ..... Alex Wilson (10 episodes, 1995-1998)
Arkie Whiteley ..... Helen Ames (6 episodes, 1996-1997)
Valerie Edmond ..... Emma Taylor (6 episodes, 1998)
Geraldine James ..... Eleanor Harker QC (5 episodes, 1995-1999)
Danny Midwinter ..... Gary / ... (5 episodes, 1997-1998)
Robert Ashby ..... D.I. Bryce / ... (4 episodes, 1995-1998)
Celestine Randall ..... Eleanor Foxcott (4 episodes, 1996-1999)
Rebecca Front ..... Cathy Winslow (4 episodes, 1998-1999)
Nick Patrick ..... Luke (3 episodes, 1995)
Robin Bailey ..... Lord Probyn (3 episodes, 1995-1997)
Rosalind Bailey ..... Cynthia Kavanagh (3 episodes, 1995-1996)
Albert Welling ..... Grahame Kavanagh (3 episodes, 1995-1996)
Donald Douglas ..... Mr. Justice Halliwell / ... (3 episodes, 1996-1999)
James Greene ..... Judge Phipson / ... (2 episodes, 1996-1997)
Alan Gilchrist ..... Keith / ... (2 episodes, 1995-1996)
William Scott-Masson ..... David Lurie (2 episodes, 1995-1996)
Lawrence Thornbury ..... Clerk of the Court / ... (2 episodes, 1996-1998)
Rena Valeh ..... Clare Ashton / ... (2 episodes, 1996-1998)
Antony Carrick ..... Appeal Court Judge / ... (2 episodes, 1997-1998)
Nigel Carrington ..... Clerk of the Court (2 episodes, 1996-1997)
Barbara Leigh-Hunt ..... Lady Justice Pinnock (2 episodes, 1999-2001)
Edward Jewesbury ..... Mr. Justice Lincoln / ... (2 episodes, 1997-1998)
Robert Murray ..... Court Official / ... (2 episodes, 1996-1998)
Jean Heywood ..... Marjorie Kavanagh (2 episodes, 1995-1996)
Charles Simpson ..... Griffiths / ... (2 episodes, 1996-1999)
Nicholas Rowe ..... Charles Beaufort (2 episodes, 1997)
Sharon McKevitt ..... Journalist / ... (2 episodes, 1995-1998)
George Malpas ..... Alfred Kavanagh (2 episodes, 1995-1996)
Paul Rainbow ..... Court Clerk / ... (2 episodes, 1997-1998)
Susan Engel ..... Mrs. Justice Whitrow / ... (2 episodes, 1997-1999)
Alex Leppard ..... Cabbie / ... (2 episodes, 1997-1999)
Angela Down ..... Angela Beddoes (2 episodes, 1997-1998)
Susan Vidler ..... Anne Murchison / ... (2 episodes, 1997-1998)
Robert Lang ..... Mr. Justice Benson (2 episodes, 1998-1999)
Annabel Mullion ..... Martha Miller (2 episodes, 1999)

Synopsis:

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. James Kavanagh QC (Queen's Counsel) is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly. All the while, his family often encounters rough patches that require much of his free time as well.
List of Episodes:
Nothing But the Truth
Heartland
A Family Affair
The Sweetest Thing
True Commitment
Men of Substance
The Burning Deck
A Sense of Loss
A Stranger in the Family
Job Satisfaction
Mute of Malice
Blood Money
Ancient History
Diplomatic Baggage
The Ties That Bind
In God We Trust
Memento Mori
Care in the Community
Briefs Trooping Gaily
Bearing Witness
Innocency of Life
Dead Reckoning
Previous Convictions
The More Loving One
Time of Need
End Game
The End of Law

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 and 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 and his friend and 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 and entering a newsagents. 'A Stranger in the Family' sees Kavanagh working on the case of student who has sustained spinal injuries and 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 and 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 and 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.

Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Nothing But the Truth
Original Air Date-3 January 1995
Successful but over-worked barrister James Kavanagh defends David Armstrong, a Cambridge student of impeccable background who is accused of rape by Eve Kendall, the wife of his employer. Eve's husband Alan is having an affair and she is lonely, which, at first sight, makes her seem to be a fantasist fabricating a consentual happening, which is Kavanagh 's line of defence. However he also has to face the fact that his wife Lizzie, upset by her husband's workaholism, is having an affair with a colleague.
Season 1, Episode 2: Heartland
Original Air Date-10 January 1995
In Sunderland a young former car thief is run over by a local vigilante, leaving him brain damaged. His mother asks Kavanagh to to take on the case despite lack of sufficient evidence.
Season 1, Episode 3: A Family Affair
Original Air Date-17 January 1995
Michael Duggan has received an eight month sentence for kidnapping his own son. Kavanagh defended him and now Duggan's ex-wife and her new husband are seeking a court order banning all contact between him and the child. The case takes a turn when Duggan reveals to his solicitor that the boy's stepfather is abusing him. In a separate case, Kavanagh is prosecuting a pornographer whose defense is that her work is art. At home, Kavanagh faces the inevitable when daughter Kate wants her boyfriend to spend the night. In Chambers, Aldermarten considers running for Parliament and asks a special favor from Julia.
Season 1, Episode 4: The Sweetest Thing
Original Air Date-24 January 1995
Kavanagh defends Annie Lewis, a high class prostitute accused of killing an entrepreneur who had a reputation for being a risk-taker and who regularly enjoyed the company of paid escorts. Annie claims she is innocent and refuses a plea bargain offered by the prosecution. The defense challenges the testimony of witnesses who claim to have seen her leaving the hotel just prior to the murder, though she claims to have left several hours before. On the home front, Kavanagh is concerned about the future of his marriage when he learns Lizzie may get a senior level civil service appointment in Strasbourg and daughter Kate, who is about to leave for university, is having boyfriend problems. In Chambers, Jeremy is at his chauvinistic best when he initially refuses Julia's request to play in the annual cricket match.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: True Commitment
Original Air Date-26 February 1996
Kavanagh finds himself defending a left-leaning protester accused of stabbing a skinhead at a protest march. The accused claims that it was entirely his fault, but when he hears that his upper middle class girlfriend has shopped him to the police, he changes his story saying he was just being chivalrous and that it was his girlfriend who did the stabbing. The Kavanaghs continue their commuter marriage with Lizzie working in Strasbourg and it all proves to be a challenge to them both. Kate has left for Cambridge and Lizzie is pleased to hear that her tutor is the husband of one of her closest childhood friends. She is far less pleased when she learns that her daughter and the tutor are having an affair and Kavanagh himself simply blows a gasket.
Season 2, Episode 2: Men of Substance
Original Air Date-4 March 1996
Kavanagh finds himself prosecuting a case for HM Customs. The case is anything but straightforward however. While 15 kilos of heroin was seized being smuggled in condemned meat, there is no physical or forensic evidence linking the drugs to any of the accused. One of them, Kevin Gregson, may have eliminated a witness in a previous case and he seems true to form when Kavanagh and his wife are threatened. Kavanagh suspects that not all is on the up an and as far as the evidence is concerned.
Season 2, Episode 3: The Burning Deck
Original Air Date-11 March 1996
Kavanagh defends Lt. Ralph Kinross RN accused of starting a fire in a barracks. His co-accused is Jones, a childhood friend who is a sailor in the same unit, who had loaned money to the sailor whose bed was set on fire. Kavanagh's colleague Eleanor Harker QC is defending Jones but is also having problems at home. The defense focuses on the role of Chief Evans, the senior rating in charge of the engineering department, who was also Jones' main tormentor. In Chambers, Julia receives a proposal of marriage but has only a very short time to make up her mind.
Season 2, Episode 4: A Sense of Loss
Original Air Date-19 March 1996
The shooting of a young policewoman draws Kavanagh into a tragic case in which his client refuses to help himself.
Season 2, Episode 5: A Stranger in the Family
Original Air Date-1996
An industrial accident at a Recycling plant leaves a young man mentally and physically impaired. Kavanagh goes to court to secure a fair settlement from the insurance company for the family.
Season 2, Episode 6: Job Satisfaction
Original Air Date-2 April 1996
Kavanagh faces the most complex case of his career: a man and his sister appear to have murdered their father, a farmer, and his second wife.
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: Mute of Malice
Original Air Date-3 March 1997
Kavanagh's defence of an army chaplain accused of killing his brother is made all the more difficult by the fact that his client refuses to speak. Is he simply being uncooperative, or has the trauma of service in Bosnia rendered him mute? Meanwhile, Aldermarten faces traumas of his own when the judge involved in his case has a nervous breakdown.
Season 3, Episode 2: Blood Money
Original Air Date-10 March 1997
When her husband dies in the operating theater following a car crash, Sarah Meadows believes there is a case of negligence. With Jeremy Aldermarten representing the hospital, Kavanagh agrees to take on her case, despite his misgivings as to the likelihood of winning. The surgeon left the theater before closure, but at a point when the patient was doing well. In Chambers, Kavanagh is asked to speak to one of his colleagues over her behavior. At home Kavanagh and his wife are disappointed when son Matt fails his A-level exams.
Season 3, Episode 3: Ancient History
Original Air Date-17 March 1997
Kavanagh prosecutes an apparently blameless family doctor in an unprecedented war crimes trial and finds himself wondering about the fallibility of human memory after fifty years. The court hears devastating testimony, as victims of Nazi atrocities relive their experiences of concentration camps.
Season 3, Episode 4: Diplomatic Baggage
Original Air Date-24 March 1997
Natasha Jackson is the daughter of the UK's ambassador-designate to Austria, Sir Alan Jackson. She is charged with murder in the death of Lisa Aeurbach, a journalist. Natasha's defense is that the woman was dead when she arrived for an interview. The case takes an interesting twist when Kavanagh is approached by a mysterious government official whose only concern is to keep HM's ambassador-designate as far away from scandal as possible. Matt decides to move out on his own and his parents are surprised to learn he's sharing a flat with two attractive young women. In Chambers, Peter Foxcott takes an interest in an old friend he has not seen for many years.
Season 3, Episode 5: The Ties That Bind
Original Air Date-7 April 1997
Kavanagh agrees to take on a private prosecution against Ian Vincent who is believed to have beaten 17-year old Graham Foster to death for having stolen a briefcase from his car. Vincent's stepfather, Ron Baab, heads a crime family and tries to buy everyone off with both money and veiled threats. There is little solid evidence and the case relies primarily on Graham's girlfriend who has also been threatened. In Chambers meanwhile, Aldermarten is anxiously awaiting the results of his application to join an exclusive mens club to which Peter Foxcott is a member.
Season 3, Episode 6: In God We Trust
Original Air Date-14 April 1997
Kavanagh finds himself in Florida assisting his one-time pupil Julia Piper in preparing an appeal for an inmate who is on death row and awaiting execution in the electric chair. It is apparent that his original defense was badly handled from the start. Many facts were left unchallenged by the defense and no mitigation was offered at the sentencing stage despite his limited emotional development and abuse-laden upbringing. When Julia goes into premature labor, Kavanagh finds himself actually pleading the case and uncovering the true nature of what happened. At home meanwhile, Lizzie Kavanagh learns some distressing news from her doctors but waits until her husband's return to tell him.
Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: Memento Mori
Original Air Date-17 March 1998
Following Lizzie's death Kavanagh takes on the case of a doctor, Felix Crawley, charged with killing his depressive,and unfaithful,wife Ann with an overdose of lithium. The doctor claims he has treated Ann in secret because of the shame of her disorder and the death was accidental. Kavanagh takes on prosecution witnesses,including Ann's lover and her young niece,whose advances Felix spurned, and,as the case draws to its verdict, comes to appreciate that he is identifying with his bereaved client.
Season 4, Episode 2: Care in the Community
Original Air Date-24 March 1998
Kavanagh and chambers head Peter Foxcott go to Kavanagh's home town, Bolton, where Kavanagh is defending Debbie Sattenthwaite and Mark Holmes, charged with killing their fourteen month old daughter. Unfortunately the couple's evidence suddenly starts to clash as Mark changes his story and Foxcott is shocked at the way Kavanagh goes for Debbie, requiring his intervention to assist his colleague.
Season 4, Episode 3: Briefs Trooping Gaily
Original Air Date-31 March 1998
Kavanagh, who is still mourning his wife's death, has to defend a woman charged with killing her abusive husband. Despite having a good case for manslaughter, she seems determined to plead guilty to murder. Meanwhile Jeremy is torn between the demands of his lead role in a Gilbert & Sullivan production; and a charge of professional misconduct for looking at a defense brief.
Season 4, Episode 4: Bearing Witness
Original Air Date-7 April 1998
Kavanagh's personal views and professional pride clash when his clerk Tom asks him to represent a former girlfriend Susannah Emmott. After they split she was briefly married to a Jehovah's Witness whose beliefs she took on before he became disillusioned and left her. She has a son, Luke, aged thirteen, whose father knows nothing of him and who needs a life-saving blood transfusion,which is against Susannah's religious beliefs. Jeremy gets himself involved with a group of tree-huggers out to save local woodlands.
Season 4, Episode 5: Innocency of Life
Original Air Date-14 April 1998
Kavanagh successfully defends a young vicar, Ian Winfarthing,when pub landlady Anne Murchison accuses him of sexual harassment. But when Anne is charged with killing her drunken, bullying husband,Tom, Ian comes forward to claim that he and Anne were lovers, the harassment case being a smoke-screen and they were in bed together when Tom died. Jeremy dates a glamorous aristocrat, throwing her over for his career's sake when she tells him she is pregnant, and later finding he has dumped a millionairess.
Season 4, Episode 6: Dead Reckoning
Original Air Date-21 April 1998
Kavanagh goes to Yorkshire fishing port Stainmouth to prosecute Roy Lawrence for negligence after his apparently unseaworthy trawler sank,claiming five lives including Roy's son Paul. The defence claims that a submarine collided with the boat, a claim that becomes more and more likely. Roy is popular in the bereaved community and even Emma, Kavanagh's junior, feels sorry for him, but Kavanagh believes Roy had his own agenda and is not the philanthropist he seems. He also averts a chambers crisis by dissuading Tom from leaving.
Season 5
Season 5, Episode 1: Previous Convictions
Original Air Date-8 March 1999
An RAF jet plane crashes onto a moto-cross event, killing twenty-two people,including friends of Matt, Kavanagh's son. The mechanic who serviced it kills himself when he discovers his girlfriend,Charlotte, whom he knew as Lisa, used him to access plans of the base and its planes. She has connections to a French radical group and is charged with sabotage and conspiracy to murder. Her arrogant stance and Matt's disapproval do not help as Kavanagh calls witnesses to show that the crash was, in fact, an accident. Jeremy's attempts to become a Euro MP end in disaster as does - almost - a conjuring trick Peter tries at a chambers dinner.
Season 5, Episode 2: The More Loving One
Original Air Date-15 March 1999
Drug addict Annie Fiske dies in a gas explosion following an argument with boyfriend Michael Woodley about her return to heroin. Michael, a convicted arsonist, tells a witness "I killed her",and refuses to give Kavanagh ammunition for a defence.However, helped by his junior,Martha Miller,who has previously felt under-valued,Kavanagh uses shock tactics to get a response from his client. He also begins a hesitant relationship with colleague Eleanor whilst Jeremy proves to be a dog's best friend and ends up co-investing in a racing greyhound with Tom.
Season 5, Episode 3: Time of Need
Original Air Date-22 March 1999
The past comes back to haunt government minister Barbara Watkins who is dropped by her party. Sixteen years earlier she was charged with having under-age sex with 15-year-old Philip Boxer but she was acquitted when Philip testified that a vengeful police inspector had put him up to telling the story. Now Barbara wants to sue the police for malicious prosecution, though Kavanagh is concerned, not without foundation, that the original facts will be dredged up again. Jeremy has a heart-to-heart with his mother.
Season 5, Episode 4: End Game
Original Air Date-29 March 1999
In 1985 a student and a pregnant woman were shot dead during an armed robbery. Three men were apprehended and sentenced to life imprisonment, Kavanagh being a junior member of the defence team. Seven years later,one of them commits suicide,leaving a note to say that one of his fellow prisoners was innocent and, after public pressure, an appeal is launched with Kavanagh and Jeremy Aldermarten representing the couple. However Kavanagh begins to suspect that somebody does not want the truth to be revealed. Peter has a health scare and recommends Kavanagh as head of chambers. Eleanor parts as friends with Kavanagh to be a prosecutor in the Yugoslav International war Crimestribunal in the Hague.
Season 6
Season 6, Episode 1: The End of Law
Original Air Date-25 April 2001
A woman is killed in a hotel room and minutes later drunken Harry Hatton is arrested leaving the room and tried for murder. He is found guilty and his daughter Alison lodges an appeal. Sarah Swithen, his brief, engages Kavanagh,now chambers head and in the running to become a judge,who takes on the case against advice that it could harm his appointment. Private detective Mark Yelland proves that another man was in the murder room on the day -Rayner,the head of a computer firm,possibly engaged in illegal government work,and the dead woman was not an escort,as believed, but a computer expert. Kavanagh suspects a conspiracy,especially when he must forfeit his post as a judge to head the appeal and a frosty female justice chairing the appeal does not inspire confidence. Fortunately for Kavanagh, Mark and Sarah share his commitment to bending the rules to obtain justice though he regards it as a bitter victory where "noone won."

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