Second Verdict
Creator Troy Kennedy Martin, Elwyn Jones · Channel BBC One · Starring Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor, Robert Henderson
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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Episodes
- Episode 1: 1. The Lindbergh KidnappingMay 27, 1976 · 50 minWas 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?
- Episode 2: 2. Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?June 3, 1976 · 50 minWas Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
- Episode 3: 3. The French BluebeardJune 10, 1976 · 50 minThe story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
- Episode 4: 4. Murder on the 10.27June 17, 1976 · 50 minJohn 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?
- Episode 5: 5. Lizzie BordenJune 24, 1976 · 50 minLizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
- Episode 6: 6. Who Burned the Reichstag?July 1, 1976 · 50 minHow the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.
Credits
- Stratford JohnsDCS Charles Barlow · 6 episodes
- Frank WindsorDCS John Watt · 6 episodes
- Robert HendersonJudge Blaisdell · 2 episodes
- Peter MarinkerBruno Richard Hauptmann · 1 episode
- Burnell TuckerCharles A. Lindbergh · 1 episode
- Weston GavinDavid Wilentz · 1 episode
- Troy Kennedy MartinCreator
- Elwyn JonesCreator
Film and series details
- EPISODE LENGTH
- 50 minutes
- FIRST AIRED
- May 27, 1976
- LAST AIRED
- July 1, 1976
- PRODUCTION COMPANY
- BBC
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