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Series

Second Verdict

1976 · 1 season · 6 episodes · Ended · BBC One

Crime, Drama

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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

  • S01E01The Lindbergh Kidnapping1976-05-2750m

    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?

  • S01E02Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?1976-06-0350m

    Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?

  • S01E03The French Bluebeard1976-06-1050m

    The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.

  • S01E04Murder on the 10.271976-06-1750m

    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?

  • S01E05Lizzie Borden1976-06-2450m

    Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?

  • S01E06Who Burned the Reichstag?1976-07-0150m

    How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.

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