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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Air Date: 1976-05-27
Was Bruno Hauptmann really the man responsible for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby in 1932? Or was he...
Air Date: 1976-06-03
Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
Air Date: 1976-06-10
The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
Air Date: 1976-06-17
John Alexander Dickman was hanged for murdering a man aboard a train in 1910. But were the two chief witnesses agains...
Air Date: 1976-06-24
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
Air Date: 1976-07-01
How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.