Trial & Retribution

Trial & Retribution
File:Trial & Retribution.jpg DVD cover
Created by	Lynda La Plante
Starring	David Hayman Victoria Smurfit Kate Buffery Dorian Lough Mark Smith Inday Ba Sarah Ozeke
Country of origin	UK
No. of series	12
No. of episodes	22 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	(approx.) 2 hours
Release
Original network	ITV, STV, UTV
Picture format	4:3, 16:9
Original release	19 October 1997 – 13 February 2009

Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect. Each episode of the Trial & Retribution series was broadcast over two nights. In 2008, series 10 had ten episodes, the longest run of the drama. The last series to date, the twelfth, aired in February 2009.

Characters

Police officers

• DCSI Michael "Mike" Walker played by David Hayman, from 1997 to 2009.
• DCI Róisín Connor played by Victoria Smurfit, from 2003 to 2009.
• DI Pat North played by Kate Buffery, from 1997 to 2002.
• DS David "Satch" Satchell played by Dorian Lough, from 1997 to 2009.
• DS Sam Palmer played by Vince Leigh, from 2007 to 2009.
• DS Jeff Batchley played by Paul Kynman, from 1998 to 2002.
• DS Barbara MacKenzie played by Barbara Thorn from 1998 to 2003.
• DC Lisa West played by Inday Ba from 2002 to 2003 and Sarah Ozeke from 2004 to 2007.
• DC Vivien Watkins played by Sandra James-Young from 1999 to 2002.
• DC Doug Collins played by James Simmons from 2000 to 2002.
• DC Jack Hutchens played by George Asprey from 1998 to 1999.

Forensic officers

• Dr John Foster played by Richard Durden from 1997 to 2004.
• Dr Jean Mullins played by Gemma Jones from 2003 to 2009.

Barristers

• Derek Waugh played by Nicholas Blane from 1997 to 2002.
• Robert Rylands played by Corin Redgrave from 1997 to 2002.
• Willis Fletcher played by David Fleeshman from 1997 to 2002.
• Rupert Halliday played by Simon Callow from 1998 to 2002.

Judges

• Judge Winfield played by George Pensotti from 1997 to 2005.

Style

Every episode was unique, while the plot was often complicated. There was frequent use of split screen, normally three images in one screen. Similar effects were frequently used in other series such as 24 and Spooks, and in later episodes of the ITV police-soap series, The Bill.

The camera angles used in the split-screen configuration of Trial & Retribution tended to be used to present the situation from different perspectives e.g.:

• Angle from the suspects.
• Angle from behind and in front of the characters.
• Angle from the crime-scene.
• Angle from different sides of the town.

Series and episodes

List of Trial & Retribution episodes

DVD releases

DVD Name	Ep#	Region 2	Region 1
The First Collection	4	27 September 2004	30 September 2008
The Second Collection	4	14 March 2005	3 March 2009
The Third Collection	3	1 September 2008	27 October 2009
The Fourth Collection	3	27 December 2008	15 June 2010
The Fifth Collection	4	2 February 2009	19 June 2012
The Sixth Collection	4	30 March 2009	1 January 2013

Trial & Retribution is distributed by Acorn Media Group.

External links

• Trial and Retribution at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution II at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution III at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution IV at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution V at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution VI at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution VII "Suspicion" at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution VIII "Blue Eiderdown" at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution IX "The Lovers" at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution X "Sins of the Father" at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution XI "Closure" at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution XII "Paradise Lost" at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution XIII "Curriculum Vitae" at IMDb
• Trial and Retribution XIV "Mirror Image" at IMDb