Second Verdict

1976 · Ended · 1 season · 6 episodes · Crime, Drama · United Kingdom

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

6 episodes · May 1976 – July 1976
  1. Episode 1: 1. The Lindbergh KidnappingMay 27, 1976 · 50 min
    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?
  2. Episode 2: 2. Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?June 3, 1976 · 50 min
    Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
  3. Episode 3: 3. The French BluebeardJune 10, 1976 · 50 min
    The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
  4. Episode 4: 4. Murder on the 10.27June 17, 1976 · 50 min
    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?
  5. Episode 5: 5. Lizzie BordenJune 24, 1976 · 50 min
    Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
  6. Episode 6: 6. Who Burned the Reichstag?July 1, 1976 · 50 min
    How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.

Credits


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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