Second Verdict
series not in production
Ended
Crime
Drama
Seasons | 1
Episodes | 6
avg.Runtime | 50 min
First EP | 1976-05-27
Last EP | 1976-07-01
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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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BBC
Season List
season 1 || Miniseries
Relesed on | 1976-05-27
A dramatised documentaries of classic criminal cases and unsolved crimes from history re-appraised by fictional police officers.
1
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
1976-05-27
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?
2
Who Killed the Princes in the Tower?
1976-06-03
Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
3
The French Bluebeard
1976-06-10
The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
4
Murder on the 10.27
1976-06-17
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?
5
Lizzie Borden
1976-06-24
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
6
Who Burned the Reichstag?
1976-07-01
How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.
CAST
charactor: DCS Charles Barlow
Original: Stratford Johns
Total EP: 6
charactor: DCS John Watt
Original: Frank Windsor
Total EP: 6
charactor: Dr John Francis Condon
Original: Robert Henderson
Total EP: 2
charactor: Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Original: Peter Marinker
Total EP: 1
charactor: Charles A. Lindbergh
Original: Burnell Tucker
Total EP: 1
charactor: David Wilentz
Original: Weston Gavin
Total EP: 1
charactor: Edward J. Reilly
Original: Thick Wilson
Total EP: 1
charactor: Harold Giles Hoffman
Original: Shane Rimmer
Total EP: 1
charactor: Thomas More
Original: Paul Chapman
Total EP: 1
charactor: Chronicler
Original: Michael Tudor Barnes
Total EP: 1
charactor: Professor William Wright
Original: Brian Hayes
Total EP: 1
charactor: Dominic Mancini
Original: Terrence Hardiman
Total EP: 1
charactor: Dr Thomas Langton
Original: John Boswall
Total EP: 1
charactor: Guillaume de Rochefort
Original: Brian Hawksley
Total EP: 1
charactor: King Richard III
Original: Colin Starkey
Total EP: 1
charactor: King Edward V
Original: Jonathan Soper
Total EP: 1
charactor: Prince Richard, Duke of York
Original: Robin Soper
Total EP: 1
charactor: Henri Désiré Landru
Original: Cyril Shaps
Total EP: 1
charactor: Fernande Segret
Original: Elizabeth Bennett
Total EP: 1
charactor: President Gilbert
Original: Frank Middlemass
Total EP: 1
charactor: Solicitor General Godefroy
Original: Michael Barrington
Total EP: 1
charactor: Maitre de Moro-Giafferi
Original: Ivor Roberts
Total EP: 1
charactor: Doctor Vallon
Original: John Gabriel
Total EP: 1
charactor: Deputy Prosecutor Beguin
Original: Jack Holloway
Total EP: 1
charactor: John Alexander Dickman
Original: Ralph Watson
Total EP: 1
charactor: Mrs Nisbet
Original: Evadne Stevens
Total EP: 1
charactor: Sir Sidney Rowan-Hamilton
Original: Mark Dignam
Total EP: 1
charactor: Clarence Henry Norman
Original: Patrick Barr
Total EP: 1
charactor: E. Tindal Atkinson, KC
Original: Hugh Manning
Total EP: 1
charactor: E. Mitchell-Innes, KC
Original: John Humphry
Total EP: 1
charactor: The Honorable Mr Justice Bernard Coleridge
Original: William Fox
Total EP: 1
charactor: CC Fullarton James
Original: David Crosse
Total EP: 1
charactor: Superintendent Weddell
Original: Roy Pattison
Total EP: 1
charactor: Percival Harding Hall
Original: Richard Henry
Total EP: 1
charactor: Wilson Hepple
Original: Roger Avon
Total EP: 1
charactor: Lizzie Borden
Original: Rosemary Leach
Total EP: 1
charactor: Hosea Knowlton
Original: David Healy
Total EP: 1
charactor: George Robinson
Original: James Berwick
Total EP: 1
charactor: Bridget Sullivan
Original: Patti Love
Total EP: 1
charactor: Dr Dolan
Original: Gordon Sterne
Total EP: 1
CREW
Stanley Morris
Production Design
Art
Dick Bailey
Title Designer
Art
Joyce Hawkins
Costume Design
Costume & Make-Up
Gwen Arthy
Makeup Artist
Costume & Make-Up
Lawrence Gordon Clark
Director
Directing
Gilchrist Calder
Director
Directing
Michael Simpson
Director
Directing
Sheila S. Tomlinson
Editor
Editing
John Cary
Editor
Editing
Ruth Caleb
Unit Production Manager
Production
Leonard Lewis
Executive Producer
Production
Lawrence Gordon Clark
Producer
Production
Bill Southgate
Original Music Composer
Sound
Arnold Yarrow
Writer
Writing
Elwyn Jones
Writer
Writing
John Lloyd
Writer
Writing
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