NET Playhouse — Season 1, Episode 31: Acquit or Hang!

Episode synopsis

A courtroom drama based on the court-martial of 10 HMS Bounty mutineers. The 10 seamen on trial all claim to have taken no part in the mutiny, but they may still be punished: The naval regulations of 1792 state that sailors who do not try to prevent a mutiny share equal guilt with active mutineers. Only one of two verdicts can be handed down: acquit or hang.

About NET Playhouse

NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
• E2The Journey of the Fifth Horse
• E3The Star Wagon
• E4L'Avventura
• E5Victoria Regina, Part 1: Spring
• E6Victoria Regina, Part 2: Summer
• E7Victoria Regina, Part 3: Autumn
• E8Victoria Regina, Part 4: Winter
• E9An Enemy of the People
• E10A Sleep of Prisoners
• E11Ofoeti
• E12The Play of Daniel