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.
May 27, 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?
Jun 3, 1976 - 50m
Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
Jun 10, 1976 - 50m
The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
Jun 17, 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?
Jun 24, 1976 - 50m
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
Jul 1, 1976 - 50m
How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.