World, 10pm
There's hot courtroom action tonight when Jimmy Berluti (Michael Badalucco, top right) and Eugene Young (Steve Harris, second top right) help hapless Harland Bassett (Ernie Sabella) in his long-shot suit against a pharmaceutical firm on behalf of a teenage girl with severe liver damage.
Bassett establishes the girl, Annie, had a sinus infection for which the doctor prescribed an antibiotic called Reflexin, and that shortly after taking the drug, her liver failed. It is found that Reflexin has been tested only on adults, yet paediatricians routinely prescribe such drugs to children.
The defence lawyer establishes the girl lied when she claimed never to have drunk alcohol but as a witness for the defence, the doctor testifies that Reflexin almost certainly did not cause Annie's liver damage.
On cross-examination, Bassett makes the point that the doctors who approve drugs for the Food and Drug Administration often have strong financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry and that Reflexin won approval in an unusually short time.
Can Bassett win a case against a politically tied, deep-pocketed drug manufacturer on the strength of his closing argument?