Court Martial (1966) (1 Viewer)

I'd love to see this UK series which had two American stars issued as a DVD complete series set - hopefully 'Region free' universal format.


U.S. Stars Bradford Dillman (as Capt David Young) & future 'Mission: Impossible' star Peter Graves (as Major Frank Whittaker) were American JAG officers stationed in Britain for this 26 episode (60 minutes) one season show, set back in World War Two


The series pilot was in NBC's 'Kraft Suspense Theater' with Dillman and Graves starring in 'The Case Against Sgt. Ryker'



The show won the 1966 BAFTA (then equivalent) award in the UK for best drama series, it was also screened in the United States by ABC.


This was Peter Graves starring role immediately before he took on the 'Jim Phelps' role as IMF Team leader in 1967...


The series was made in black & white and followed the cases of the two stars dealing with all sorts of military cases (obviously a forerunner of the later successful 'JAG' series and a British equivalent to Gene Roddenberry's 'The Lieutenant' one season show )


I remember watching this show every week as a child & always wanted to see it back on TV again - it was my intro to both Bradford Dillman & Peter Graves who normally featured together, with a few featured episodes each plus there was at least one occasion with a case where the pair opposed each other in a military court !


Many fine guest stars featured, including Sal Mineo and directors included Sam Wanamaker


Australian Kenneth J. Warren co-starred as their Sgt 'Mac' Macaskey ( long before lovely Catherine Bell was around !)


Made for ITC it was distributed by Universal, I hope it gets a DVD release in the not too distant future...

A now-closed YouTube channel offered some episodes last year, so I got to see one:


“Let Slip the Dogs of War” (Season 1 / #14: July 15, 1966) Guest cast: Dennis Price, Zena Marshall, Ferdy Mayne.


What I saw was excellent. My guess is that this was the very last b&w series produced for network broadcast.


The pilot episode that you cite, "The Case Against Paul Ryker," was a two-parter filmed in color that was later released as a theatrical feature, entitled SERGEANT RYKER, to capitalize on Lee Marvin's popularity after THE DIRTY DOZEN. Why is that never shown anywhere?

Vic Pardo said:

A now-closed YouTube channel offered some episodes last year, so I got to see one:


“Let Slip the Dogs of War” (Season 1 / #14: July 15, 1966) Guest cast: Dennis Price, Zena Marshall, Ferdy Mayne.

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That's too bad.

I think Network have the rights & it was on their radar a long while back.Unfortunately it is more economical for them

to release old movies than TV series these days.


I agree it was a good series worthy of release.