Boyd Q.C.

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]

Boyd Q.C.
Genre	Legal drama
Written by	Jack Roffey
Starring	Michael Denison Charles Leno
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of episodes	80 (66 missing, 5 incomplete)
Production
Executive producer	Caryl Doncaster
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Associated-Rediffusion
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	24 December 1956 (1956-12-24) – 23 September 1964 (1964-09-23)

Cast

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

Reception

The show was reportedly so accurate that Denison was invited to speak at Law Society of England and Wales dinners.^[2]  

Archival status

Most of the series was lost. Of the eighty episodes produced, nine episodes survive as recordings; five others survive incomplete; and four have been rediscovered since 2022.^[3]

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.^[4]

On 16 September 2024, it was announced by the Film is Fabulous initiative that three episodes had been found in a private collection:

"The Balance of Her Mind" (Broadcast: 30 April 1958)

"Findings Keepings" (Broadcast: 6 July 1961)

"Sunday's Child" (Broadcast: 20 July 1961)

It is unknown whether the copy of "Sunday's Child" is the one from the aforementioned eBay listing.^[5] A fourth episode "Messing About In Boats" (Broadcast: 29/06/1961) has since been recovered.^[6]