Timewatch

Season 13, Episode 4

Episode Title: Presumed Guilty - A Women's History of Divorce 1945-1969

Air Date: 1994-03-09

Overview:

In the decades leading up to reform of the divorce laws in 1969, thousands of women suffered the injustices of a system that treated a failed marriage as a criminal offence. Timewatch tells the stories of some of these women, and the terrible price they paid to end their marriages.