Second Verdict

1976
Ended
Crime · Drama
~50m / ep
1 season
7.0/10

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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A dramatised documentaries of classic criminal cases and unsolved crimes from history re-appraised by fictional police officers.

E1. The Lindbergh Kidnapping
May 27, 1976 · 50m
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?
E2. Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?
Jun 3, 1976 · 50m
Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
E3. The French Bluebeard
Jun 10, 1976 · 50m
The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
E4. Murder on the 10.27
Jun 17, 1976 · 50m
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?
E5. Lizzie Borden
Jun 24, 1976 · 50m
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
E6. Who Burned the Reichstag?
Jul 1, 1976 · 50m
How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.