Second Verdict
The series
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.
Episodes
Season 1 · 6 episodes · 1976
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Episode 127 May 197650m
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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Episode 23 Jun 197650m
Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?
Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
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Episode 310 Jun 197650m
The French Bluebeard
The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
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Episode 417 Jun 197650m
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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Episode 524 Jun 197650m
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
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Episode 61 Jul 197650m
Who Burned the Reichstag?
How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.
Cast
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