Crime of Passion - Episode Guide

Country girl Catherine feels that in spite of being married into a wealthy family is looked down upon because of her upbringing – but is that enough reason to commit murder.

Maitre Saval is assigned to defend the young lover of renowned middle aged singer Helene Jeygu.

A foreigner, Canadian writer Robert Bureau, has found himself on trial accused of the murder of his secretary Celine Tallandier. He arrived in France with two failed marriages behind him and hoping to complete the research for a novel he is working on.

Pierre Lombard has a pleasant life with his wife but when his mother dies he inherits a large amount of money. His new found wealth promptly finds that he is suddenly attractive to a certain type of woman – one of whom, Marthe, Pierre finds hard to resist. The affair soon leads to murder…

Matters get out of control when Nicole sets out to see how much power she holds over of her lover Edgar Bertot.

Alain Lagasse stands accused of murder, he openly admits that he did it and nothing will change his mind.

Camille must go on trial for the murder of her lover who was about to marry someone else.

A brave Partisan woman named Celestina during the Spanish civil war, comes back home to find her husband cavorting with his mistress.

Concert conductor Olivier Bressel retires exhausted to his dressing room after a charity concert, refusing to meet officials or attend a reception. But when he goes into the shower, he finds there a young woman with a gun. She tells him to dismiss his dresser and manager, but when they return later it is the girl who is found dead and Bressel's fingerprints are on the gun. Olivier Bressel is found in a room with his fingerprints all over a gun and the body of a dead woman at his feet. Did he either really commit a murder or he was framed?

Justine finds that her husband has a mistress.

A woman's attempt to keep her brother from marrying results in his being stabbed to death.

Louis strangles his wife after she prevents him from becoming a champion cyclist.

Mafgdalena has private reasons for destructing Dieter Striebeck. Reasons that come from the deepest of her past -and which she has done her best to forget. Magdalena kills a man she believes to have been guilty of murdering her baby daughter years earlier when the Nazis wiped out the Czechoslovakian village of Lidice.

Lina is a hard-saving prostitute who won't say why she tried to bump off her lover. Neither he will. Lina shoots her lover Guy Anquetil while he is waiting on an underground station with his glrliend Paulette Havelot. The shot merely wounds Guy, but Lisa's second aim kills Paulette as she rushes to his aid. When Lina is brought to trial for Paulette's murder, Maitre Savel defending her, is puzzled by the silence of his client. If she won't justify her actions then he must.

The enigmas of the Church intrude into the logic of the courtroom when Daniel, a monk, is accused of murdering his sister-in-law, with whom he had once been in love. Prosecutor Lacan is puzzled by the apparent conspiracy of silence among his fellow monks.

A pillar of society is shot down and with him falls his cloak of respectability.

When a man shoots his wife, it is his mother who gives him both the gun and the push to do it.

When Lady Danet's husband is found dead, she and her friend Janine insist that he committed suicide, but the police suspect murder.

In the twilight of a distinguished life, an elderly man falls victim to a beautiful young woman. Paul, now retired after a distinguished career, falls in love with Babette, a young typist with a Paris underworld background. But his infatuation leads to murder.

When the abusive Leon Bourzat is murdered, suspicion falls on his wife and daughter. Emilie has worshipped her husband for years and been treated as a drudge in return. When she is accused of her murder, her refusal to justify her action seems strange, particularly as she will think of her husband as an "angel."

Attorney Maitre Savel has a special reason for defending an accused murderess they were once in love.

Dazzled by the daughter of a long-time friend, an otherwise prudent man is swept off his feet and into court for murder.

A woman, accused of killing her brother, confesses to the crime, but so does the victim's widow.

A cop kills a con man, but is it in the line of duty or was it a personal vengeance?

A militant trade union official (John Collin) is shot by his wife (Lynn Farleigh) with an antique gun belonging to his employer (John Stratton).

When a young recruit marries one of his regiment's best loved legends, her past and his lack of one ruin both of their lives.

When Madeleine Hargraves is found murdered, suspicion falls upon both her husband and her lover.

When a sculptor's wife tries to convince him he's out of his head, he carves hers with a chisel.

One-time French superstar Oriane Delorme had only just regained her status through the help of her close friend Gerard Bonfils, when she was accused of his murder.

A father and son feud for years until a vengeful woman fans the fire that consumes them both. A domineering father has only contempt for his tearaway son. Their bitter family feud is brought to a dramatic climax when a beautiful relative arrives to stay at their farm. The result -the father is shot dead and the son faces trial for the killing.

A beautiful, titled woman marries and murders out of her class.

Final episode of the series. A man who survives a dose of poison is charged with the murder of a model who succumbs. The accused claims that the woman was his partner in a suicide pact.