一个在贫民窟长大的18岁少年因为涉嫌杀害自己的父亲被告上法庭，证人言之凿凿，各方面的证据都对他极为不利。十二个不同职业的人组成了这个案件的陪审团，他们要在休息室达成一致的意见，裁定少年是否有罪，如果罪名成立，少年将会被判处死刑。 十二个陪审团成员各有不同，除了8号陪审员（H enry Fonda 饰）之外，其他人对这个犯罪事实如此清晰的案子不屑一顾，还没有开始讨论就认定了少年有罪。8号陪审员提出了自己的“合理疑点”，耐心地说服其他的陪审员，在这个过程中，他们每个人不同的人生观也在冲突和较量…… 一个在贫民窟长大的18岁少年因为涉嫌杀害自己的父亲被告上法庭，证人言之凿凿，各方面的证据都对他极为不利。十二个不同职业的人组成了这个案件的陪审团，他们要在休息室达成一致的意见，裁定少年是否有罪，如果罪名成立，少年将会被判处死刑。十二个陪审团成员各有不同，除了8号陪审员（HenryFonda饰）之外，其他人对这个犯罪事实如此清晰的案子不屑一顾，还没有开始讨论就认定了少年有罪。8号陪审员提出了自己的“合理疑点”，耐心地说服其他的陪审员，在这个过程中，他们每个人不同的人生观也在冲突和较量…… This production of 'Twelve Angry Men', written especially for Studio One, is shorter than the film version and leaves a few twists and turns of plot undeveloped, but it is fifty minutes of class nevertheless. For many years this episode was thought to have been lost. The Museum of Television and Radio (now the Paley Center) had only the first 30 minutes of the hour-long program on a kinescope provided by CBS - the only version CBS had. After nearly 30 years of searching, a copy of the complete program was found in 2003 by filmmaker Joseph Consentino, who was working on a documentary about noted defense attorney Robert Leibowitz (Leibowitz reported on the Charles A. Lindbergh baby kidnapping for the NY radio station WHN) and found a copy of the show in the archives maintained by the children of Leibowitz, Robert Leibowitz and Marjorie Leibowitz Finch. Samuel Leibowitz requested and received a commercial-free kinescope copy of "Twelve Angry Men" from CBS shortly after it aired because of his interest in legal issues. The Leibowitz children donated the kinescope to the museum and it had a re-premiere in May 2003. 
