Second Verdict

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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.

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Production

BBC

Language

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

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

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?

Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?

Air date: 1976-06-03

Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?

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.

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?

Lizzie Borden

Air date: 1976-06-24

Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?

Who Burned the Reichstag?

Air date: 1976-07-01

How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.