Second Verdict (1976)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 1976-05-27
Last Air Date: 1976-07-01
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 6
Created By: Troy Kennedy Martin, Elwyn Jones
Networks: BBC One
Top Cast
- Stratford Johns as DCS Charles Barlow
- Frank Windsor as DCS John Watt
- Robert Henderson as Judge Blaisdell
- Peter Marinker as Bruno Richard Hauptmann
- Burnell Tucker as Charles A. Lindbergh
- Weston Gavin as David Wilentz
- Thick Wilson as Edward J. Reilly
- Shane Rimmer as Harold Giles Hoffman
- Paul Chapman as Thomas More
- Michael Tudor Barnes as Chronicler
Seasons
Miniseries (1976)
A dramatised documentaries of classic criminal cases and unsolved crimes from history re-appraised by fictional police officers.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: 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?
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Ep. 2: Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?
Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
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Ep. 3: The French Bluebeard
The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
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Ep. 4: 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?
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Ep. 5: Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
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Ep. 6: Who Burned the Reichstag?
How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.
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