Second Verdict

1976 · Crime, Drama · 1 Season · 6 Episodes · 7.0

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

E11. The Lindbergh Kidnapping50m · 1976-05-27Was 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?E22. Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?50m · 1976-06-03Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?E33. The French Bluebeard50m · 1976-06-10The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.E44. Murder on the 10.2750m · 1976-06-17John 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?E55. Lizzie Borden50m · 1976-06-24Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?E66. Who Burned the Reichstag?50m · 1976-07-01How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.

Cast

Stratford Johns

Stratford Johns

DCS Charles Barlow