Famous Jury Trials is a radio court show dramatic anthology series in the United States aired from January 5, 1936, and June 25, 1949 and it is considered one of the first programs that initiated the court show genre, which later was broadcast on television as Famous Jury Trials. This show had the effect of taking a listener into an actual courtroom so that he or she could hear a trial as it proceeded. As the title implies, the program re-enacted trials from history. Although the scripts were almost entirely fictionalized, they resulted from thorough research.