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The Witness TV Series 1960 - 1961
Ma Barker starring Joan Blondell The Witness 1960-61 The Witness is an American television show broadcast on the CBS network in the United States within the 1960-61 television season, in which a fictional "Committee" of lawyers cross-examined actors portraying actual people from the recent past of the United States who had been considered criminal or suspicious. The premise of the show was explained in the opening narration: "This show is not a trial, not a court of law, not a legislative inquiry, but a simulated hearing before a simulated committee representing the morality and the conscience of today, with the power to call before it the famous, the infamous, the evil and controversial figures of yesterday" Regular Cast Verne Collett played the Court Reporter. William Griffis played the Court Clerk. The Committee Members were played by members of the New York Bar not all of them appeared together in every episode: Paul McGrath William Smithers Frank Milan Charles Haydon Richard Steel William Geoghan Jr. Benedict Ginsberg Here are 10 of the 16 very Rare 1 hour episodes with original commercials Very watchable 7/7.5 Ma Barker John Dillinger Abe "Kid Twist" Reles Lt Charles Becker Louis Buchalter Arnold Rothstein Legs Diamond Bugsy Siegel Dutch Schultz Jimmy Hines |
