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''The Joseph Cotten'' Show (also known as ''On Trial'') is an American anthology series series hosted by and occasionally starring Joseph Cotten. The series, which first aired on NBC, aired 31 episodes from September 14, 1956, to September 13, 1957.〔Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., p. 618〕 Four other new episodes were broadcast on CBS in Summer 1959. ==Episode overview== Cotten appeared in different roles in fifteen episodes, including the title character in the series premiere, "The Trial of Edward Pritchard", the story of a physician of questionable background in Glasgow, Scotland, who is accused of having poisoned his wife and mother-in-law and who claimed to have been a personal friend of the Italian revolutionary Garibaldi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''On Trial: The Trial of Edward Pritchard'' )〕 Virginia Gregg starred twice in historical roles, first as Mary Surratt, the woman hanged in the conspiracy case stemming from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, in the 1956 episode "The Mary Surratt Case", directed by Ida Lupino. Cotten appeared with Gregg in the role of Robert Westwood.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''On Trial: The Trial of Mary Surratt'' )〕 Gregg also portrayed Frances Adeline Miller Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward, who was stabbed the same night that Lincoln was murdered. Cotten played Seward in this 1957 episode entitled "The Freeman Case". This episode is not about the attack on Seward but about a legal case that the attorney Seward handled on behalf of the African American Willie Freeman, who was found guilty but insane of the murders of a white farm family. The prosecutor in the trial was John Van Buren, son of former U.S. President Martin Van Buren.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''On Trial: The Freeman Case'' )〕 In the first episode of 1957, "The Trial of Colonel Blood", Michael Wilding guest starred in the title role of Thomas Blood, the Irish-born colonel who in 1671 tried to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Norman Lloyd, a director of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', portrayed the Second Duke of Buckingham. Henry Daniell portrayed King Charles II.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''On Trial: The Trial of Colonel Blood'' )〕 The series also aired a Victorian-era mystery "The Tichborne Claimant", with Gladys Cooper portraying the Roman Catholic Lady Tichborne, who seeks the whereabouts of her son, Roger Cooper, who disappeared at sea. In her search, Lady Tichborne encounters the Protestant Thomas Castro of Australia, played by Robert Middleton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''On Trial: The Tichborne Claimant'' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Joseph Cotten Show」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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