Boyd Q.C. Explained

Genre:	Legal Drama
Runtime:	1 hour approx.
Num Episodes:	80 (70 missing, 5 incomplete)
Starring:	Michael Denison Charles Leno
Executive Producer:	Caryl Doncaster
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Company:	Associated-Rediffusion
Network:	ITV

Boyd Q.C. is a British legal television programme transmitted from December 1956 to September 1964 by the ITV franchise holder Associated-Rediffusion. It focused around a barrister in a London courtroom and the cases in which he was involved. It ran for seven series in total.^[1]

Cast

• Michael Denison – Richard Boyd Q.C.
• Russell Waters – Albert
• Charles Leno – Narrator

Archival status

Most of the series has been lost. Of the eighty episodes produced, only five episodes survive as recordings, while five others survive incomplete.^[2]

In March 2022, "Sunday's Child", a missing episode from the fifth series, turned up on an eBay auction and sold for £310. It is unknown who the successful bidder was, or if the episode is being negotiated for return to the archives.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Jeff Evans, The Penguin TV Companion (Penguin Books, 2001)
2. Conflicting evidence. Web site: thiswaydown.org. https://web.archive.org/web/20130917010101/http://www.thiswaydown.org/missing%2Depisodes/boyd.htm. dead. 17 September 2013. is more pessimistic as to the survival rate than lostshows.com
3. Web site: Boyd Qc – Sundays Child – 1961 S5 Episode 9 16Mm B/W Sound 800Ft Cine Film Itv .