 At the beginning, they have a nearly unanimous decision of guilty, with a single dissenter of not guilty, who throughout the play sows a seed of reasonable doubt and eventually wins over the other jurors for a unanimous "not guilty" verdict.This was first made as a 1954 teleplay by Reginald Rose for the "Studio One" anthology television series, and was aired as a live CBS Television production on 20 September 1954.The drama was later rewritten for the stage in 1955 under the same title.