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Second Verdict

1976 - 1976

The Lindbergh Kidnapping

Episode 1

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

Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?

The French Bluebeard

Episode 3

The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.

Murder on the 10.27

Episode 4

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

Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?

Who Burned the Reichstag?

Episode 6

How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.

Top Cast

Stratford Johns•Frank Windsor

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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Full Cast

Stratford Johns Image

Stratford Johns

DCS Charles Barlow

Frank Windsor Image

Frank Windsor

DCS John Watt

Full Crew

Lawrence Gordon Clark Image

Lawrence Gordon Clark

Producer

Leonard Lewis

Executive Producer

Stanley Morris

Production Design

Joyce Hawkins

Costume Design

Gwen Arthy

Makeup Artist

Ruth Caleb

Unit Production Manager

Dick Bailey

Title Designer

Bill Southgate

Original Music Composer

Arnold Yarrow

Story Editor

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