Second Verdict
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.
Cast
Stratford Johns
DCS Charles Barlow
Frank Windsor
DCS John Watt
Seasons
A dramatised documentaries of classic criminal cases and unsolved crimes from history re-appraised by fictional police officers.
E1The Lindbergh Kidnapping
May 27, 1976
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?
E2Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?
Jun 3, 1976
Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
E3The French Bluebeard
Jun 10, 1976
The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
E4Murder on the 10.27
Jun 17, 1976
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?
E5Lizzie Borden
Jun 24, 1976
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
E6Who Burned the Reichstag?
Jul 1, 1976
How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.
Storyline
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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