Judge John Deed: My Daughter, Right or Wrong
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My Daughter, Right or Wrong
- 21.
- Season: 5
- Episode: 2
- First Aired: 1/13/2006
- Prod Code: LDXC292L
In a case in Deed's court, his daughter Charlie is the junior counsel defending Henry Free - an animal rights activist charged with murder after a fire-bomb at an animal research unit killed an eminent scientist. Then Henry falls out with his leading counsel and asks Charlie to defend him - but Deed advises her not to. Part of Free's defence is that his group had been infiltrated by an officer of MI5, the British secret service, acting as an agent provocateur, and Deed is angry when Charlie reveals the officer's identity in court.
Meanwhile, Jo is helping and encouraging Charlie - and she is back with her old flame, Marc Thompson. Deed is losing her. Add a recap »
- Writers:
- G. F. Newman
- Director:
- Tristram Powell
- Stars:
- Louisa Clein (Charlie Deed)
- Jenny Seagrove (Jo Mills)
- Caroline Langrishe (Georgina Channing, QC)
- Simon Chandler (Sir Ian Rochester)
- Donald Sinden (Sir Joseph Channing)
- Martin Shaw (Judge John Deed)
- Recurring Role:
- Jeremy Child (Sir Alan Peasmarsh)
- Daniel Hill (Simon Norwalk)
- Mary Woodvine (Morag Hughes)
- Simon Ward (Sir Monty Everard)
- Barbara Thorn (Rita Cooper)
- Adrian Lukis (Marc Thompson)
- Trevor Bowen (Sir Michael Niven)
- Michael Eaves (Brian Harrison)
- Guest Star:
- Richard Simons (Jonathan Primatt)
- Aneirin Hughes (Right Hon. Neil Haughton, MP)
- Penny Downie (Moira Blackthorn)
- Sarah Leatherbarrow (Juror)
- Anthony Gilding (Clive Blackthorn)
- Steven Elder (David Baxter)
- Sarah Benjamin (Stenographer)
- Joan Blackham (Lady Everard)
- Malcolm Sinclair (Sir Peter Dulford)
- Stella Moray (Joan Crick)
- Richard Pepper (Martin House)
- Sean Murray (II) (Professor Cluk)
- Shelagh McLeod (Detective Chief Inspector Hurst)
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- The title of this episode, My Daughter, Right or Wrong alludes to the old saying, "My country, right or wrong", probably coined in 1816 by Stephen Decatur, a commander in the U.S. Navy.
General Carl Schurz, of the U.S. Army, added to this in 1871 - "Our country right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."
The English poet G.K. Chesterton wrote in 1901 - "'My country, right or wrong', is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"
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