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.
Second Verdict (Season 1)
The Lindbergh Kidnapping (Episode 1)
Writer: Elwyn Jones
Air date: 1976-05-27
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: 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?
Who Killed the Princes in the Tower? (Episode 2)
Writer: John Lloyd
Air date: 1976-06-03
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
The French Bluebeard (Episode 3)
Writer: Elwyn Jones
Air date: 1976-06-10
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
Murder on the 10.27 (Episode 4)
Writer: John Lloyd
Air date: 1976-06-17
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: 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?
Lizzie Borden (Episode 5)
Writer: Elwyn Jones
Air date: 1976-06-24
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
Who Burned the Reichstag? (Episode 6)
Writer: Elwyn Jones
Air date: 1976-07-01
Runtime: 50 min
Overview: How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.
Seasons
Episodes 6