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Second Verdict

Second Verdict

★ 7.0/10•1976•50m•12•Crime•Drama
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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.

StatusEnded
Runtime50m
LanguageEN
First Air DateMay 27, 1976

Episodes

E150m

The Lindbergh Kidnapping

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?

May 27, 1976

E250m

Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?

Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?

Jun 3, 1976

E350m

The French Bluebeard

The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.

Jun 10, 1976

E450m

Murder on the 10.27

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?

Jun 17, 1976

E550m

Lizzie Borden

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

Jun 24, 1976

E650m

Who Burned the Reichstag?

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

Jul 1, 1976

Actors

Stratford Johns

Stratford Johns

DCS Charles Barlow

Frank Windsor

Frank Windsor

DCS John Watt

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