Kavanagh QC: The Complete Collection - Series 1 to 5

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. 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.

Director: Paul Greengrass
Director: Colin Gregg
Director: Renny Rye
Director: Andrew Grieve
Director: Charles Beeson
Director: Jack Gold
Producer: Chris Kelly
Director: Tristram Powell
Director: Peter Smith
Executive Producer: Ted Childs
Writer: Ted Childs
Director: David Thacker
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Russell Lewis
Writer: Adrian Hodges
Producer: Ted Childs
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: Malcolm Bradbury
Actor: Marjorie Bland
Actor: Jill Brassington
Actor: Tom Courtenay
Actor: Jon Glover
Actor: Ann Mitchell
Actor: John Thaw
Actor: Anna Chancellor
Actor: Tom Brodie
Writer: Matthew Hall
Writer: Paul Hines
Writer: Stephen Churchett
Writer: Charles Wood
Actor: Lisa Harrow
Actor: Oliver Ford Davies
Writer: Andy de la Tour
Actor: Cliff Parisi
Writer: Peter Moffat
Writer: Nigel Kneale
Actor: Jenny Jules
Actor: Holly Aird
Actor: George Costigan
Actor: Phyllis Logan
Actor: Rita Wolf
Actor: Toyah Wilcox
Actor: Daisy Bates
Actor: Clare Higgins
Music: John Keane
Writer: Douglas Watkinson
Actor: Nicholas Jones
Actor: Dermot Crowley
Writer: Edward Canfor-Dumas
Actor: Geraldine James
Actor: Jonathan Phillips
Actor: Kevin McKidd
Actor: Paul Rhys
Actor: Alison Steadman
Actor: Stuart Laing
Actor: Stephen Tate
Actor: Ruaidhri Conroy
Actor: Frances Tomelty
Actor: Emma Fielding
Actor: Carol Harrison
Actor: Ewan McGregor
Actor: Doraly Rosen
Actor: John McArdle
Actor: Rupert Penry-Jones
Actor: Ger Ryan
Actor: Colin McCormack
Actor: Art Malik
Actor: Pip Torrens
Actor: Nicholas Day
Actor: Alan Gilchrist
Actor: Ned Sherrin
Actor: Anastasia Hille
Actor: Carmen du Sautoy
Actor: T. P. McKenna
Actor: Nick Patrick
Actor: Jesse Birdsall
Actor: Lesley Manville
Actor: Arkie Whiteley
Actor: John Carlisle
Actor: Sam Cox
Actor: Mac Andrews
Actor: Laura Heath
Actor: Robert Ashby
Actor: Kenneth Cope
Actor: Linda Bassett
Actor: Susan Engel
Actor: Anthony Calf
Actor: David Troughton
Actor: Andrew Woodall
Actor: Jean Marsh
Actor: Nicholas Clay
Actor: Clifford Rose
Actor: Jonathan Adams
Actor: Robin Soans
Actor: Robin Bailey
Actor: Gillian Bevan
Actor: Nigel Carrington
Actor: Bill Nighy
Actor: Lena Headey
Actor: Julian Curry
Actor: Michael Feast
Actor: Isobel Middleton
Actor: Joanna Bacon
Actor: Frank Grimes
Actor: Leon Herbert
Actor: Bruce Boa
Actor: Susan Vidler
Actor: Sam Douglas