Second Verdict
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CrimeDrama
Second Verdict is a six-part 1976 BBC television series, a dramatised documentaries of classic criminal cases and unsolved crimes from history re-appraised by fictional police officers. Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor reprised for a final time their double-act as Detective Chief Superintendents Barlow and Watt, hugely popular with TV audiences from the long-running series Z-Cars; Softly, Softly; and Barlow at Large.
Production
BBC
Language
EN
Status
Ended
First Aired
May 27, 1976
Last Aired
July 1, 1976
Networks
BBC One
Created By
Troy Kennedy Martin, Elwyn Jones
Where to Watch
Region US · Lang EN
US
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season
E1
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
Air date: 1976-05-27
Was Bruno Hauptmann really the man responsible for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby in 1932? Or was he the victim of a miscarriage of justice?
E2
Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?
Air date: 1976-06-03
Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
E3
The French Bluebeard
Air date: 1976-06-10
The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
E4
Murder on the 10.27
Air date: 1976-06-17
John Alexander Dickman was hanged for murdering a man aboard a train in 1910. But were the two chief witnesses against him the ones really responsible?
E5
Lizzie Borden
Air date: 1976-06-24
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
E6
Who Burned the Reichstag?
Air date: 1976-07-01
How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.
Cast
Stratford Johns
DCS Charles Barlow
Frank Windsor
DCS John Watt
