Second Verdict

Name: Second Verdict
Released: 1976
Cast: Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor

1976· 1 season· 50 min episodes★ 7.0Ended

On BBC One — From BBC

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Synopsis

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.

Themes

based on true story anthology true crime unsolved crime lost media

Episodes

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E1 The Lindbergh KidnappingNext upMay 27, 1976 · 50 min
Synopsis
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?
Guest stars: Peter Marinker (Bruno Richard Hauptmann), Burnell Tucker (Charles A. Lindbergh), Weston Gavin (David Wilentz), Thick Wilson (Edward J. Reilly), Robert Henderson (Dr John Francis Condon), Shane Rimmer (Harold Giles Hoffman)
E2 Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?Jun 3, 1976 · 50 min
Synopsis
Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
Guest stars: Paul Chapman (Thomas More), Michael Tudor Barnes (Chronicler), Brian Hayes (Professor William Wright), Terrence Hardiman (Dominic Mancini), John Boswall (Dr Thomas Langton), Brian Hawksley (Guillaume de Rochefort), Colin Starkey (King Richard III), Jonathan Soper (King Edward V)
E3 The French BluebeardJun 10, 1976 · 50 min
Synopsis
The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
Guest stars: Cyril Shaps (Henri Désiré Landru), Elizabeth Bennett (Fernande Segret), Frank Middlemass (President Gilbert), Michael Barrington (Solicitor General Godefroy), Ivor Roberts (Maitre de Moro-Giafferi), John Gabriel (Doctor Vallon), Jack Holloway (Deputy Prosecutor Beguin)
E4 Murder on the 10.27Jun 17, 1976 · 50 min
Synopsis
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?
Guest stars: Ralph Watson (John Alexander Dickman), Evadne Stevens (Mrs Nisbet), Mark Dignam (Sir Sidney Rowan-Hamilton), Patrick Barr (Clarence Henry Norman), Hugh Manning (E. Tindal Atkinson, KC), John Humphry (E. Mitchell-Innes, KC), William Fox (The Honorable Mr Justice Bernard Coleridge), David Crosse (CC Fullarton James)
E5 Lizzie BordenJun 24, 1976 · 50 min
Synopsis
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
Guest stars: Rosemary Leach (Lizzie Borden), David Healy (Hosea Knowlton), James Berwick (George Robinson), Patti Love (Bridget Sullivan), Gordon Sterne (Dr Dolan), Robert Henderson (Judge Blaisdell), Norwich Duff (Thomas Kieran), Tony Sibbald (Assistant Marshal Fleet)
E6 Who Burned the Reichstag?Jul 1, 1976 · 50 min
Synopsis
How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.
Guest stars: Ronald Lacey (Marinus Van der Lubbe), George Pravda (Georgi Dimitroff), David King (Hermann Göring), Michael Sheard (Dr Bunger), Cyril Appleton (Scranowitz), Neville Barber (Lateit), Roy McArthur (Helmer), John Abineri (Heisig)