"After Dark", "ending its ten-week trial run, has been a remarkable success" wrote "The Independent" in July 1987. "The series has brought to television the rare acts of listening, thinking and thorough and subtle discussion... In the small hours of Saturday morning, Maitre Jacques Vergès, defence counsel to the Butcher of Lyons, leaned back on a sofa with a half-glass of something pale and put his case. A journalist and a canon and a Resistance fighter and a concentration camp survivor listened and put theirs." Vergès said "the reason people were still prosecuted for massacring Jews was because the Jews were white; if they had not been, the crimes would have been swept under the carpet long ago."