Brains on Trial with Alan Alda: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Brains on Trial with Alan Alda takes a fictitious crime-a convenience store robbery that goes horribly wrong - and builds from it a gripping courtroom drama. As the trial unfolds it takes us into the brains of the major participants - defendant, witnesses, jurors, judge - while Alan Alda visits the laboratories of some dozen neuroscientists exploring how brains work when they become entangled with the law. The research he discovers raises the controversial question: How does our rapidly expanding ability to peer into people's minds and decode their thoughts and feelings affect trials like the one we are watching in the future? And should it?

Series details

• Title: Brains on Trial with Alan Alda
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2013-09-11
• Final broadcast date listed: 2013-09-18
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: PBS
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 30321
• TVDB ID: 273062

Cast and credited roles

• Alan Alda — Himself

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2013-09-11; final listed air date 2013-09-18; episode order: 2.

Source and licence

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