The Lady and the Law: A Long Dark Afternoon is a 1972 Australian television play. It was made as the pilot for a series but aired as a stand-alone television play.^[2]

Barrister Peta Mann defends Marion Hall, who has escaped from a lunatic asylum. She was committed by her uncle Mark Fulton.

• Jill Forster as Peta Mann
• Anne Haddy
• Brian James
• Nigel Lovell
• Peter Reynolds as Mark Fulton^[3]
• Judy Morris as Marion Hall
• Peter Sumner
• John Winston
• Max Meldrum

The Sun Herald thought Forster was "unbelievable" as a barrister and was "bogged down by writing, casting and storyline."^[4]

• The Law and the Lady at IMDb

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