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Second Verdict
1976 · 1 season · 50m · ★ 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.
Start from S1E1 · The Lindbergh Kidnapping
Episodes
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1. The Lindbergh Kidnapping
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?
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2. Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?
1976 · 50m
Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
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3. The French Bluebeard
1976 · 50m
The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
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4. Murder on the 10.27
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?
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5. Lizzie Borden
1976 · 50m
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
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6. Who Burned the Reichstag?
1976 · 50m
How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.
Cast
Stratford Johns
DCS Charles Barlow
Frank Windsor
DCS John Watt