You Be the Judge

A review of the show's first episode in the trade publication Billboard provided a positive outlook: " if its first showing is any criterion, [it] is a program headed for a long, successful and honorable life on television".^[1] The reviewer felt, however, that the program would be improved if viewers were allowed to register their decisions in cases via telephone.^[1] A subsequent review in Billboard, after the program had been on almost seven months, described it as "still a sock show, with real mental action and plenty of suspense".^[2] It noted that viewers at home had been "brought in only casually" and praised the camera work that "brought the performers right into the home".^[2]

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Methods to record live television did not exist during the run of the series. As such, the series is likely lost today except possibly for still photographs.