In June 1989 Britain's clown prince of comedy, Ken Dodd, was charged with 11 counts of tax evasion. Through five captivating weeks two opposing portraits of the Liverpudlian comedian were presented in court. The prosecution claimed Dodd was a calculating cheat whilst the defence argued he was an unreliable eccentric who led a chaotic life and was bad at maths. Ken Dodd in the Dock examines the court case drawing on archive footage and interviews from Barry Cryer, Carman's son Dominic Carman and Dodd's biographer, Michael Billington.