Second Verdict
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.
- Ep 1
1.The Lindbergh Kidnapping
27-05-197650mWas 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?
- Ep 2
2.Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?
03-06-197650mWas Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
- Ep 3
3.The French Bluebeard
10-06-197650mThe story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
- Ep 4
4.Murder on the 10.27
17-06-197650mJohn 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?
- Ep 5
5.Lizzie Borden
24-06-197650mLizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
- Ep 6
6.Who Burned the Reichstag?
01-07-197650mHow the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.
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