Second Verdict

Overview

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.

Created by Troy Kennedy Martin, Elwyn Jones

Network

• BBC One

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Stratford Johns

  DCS Charles Barlow

  6 eps

• 

  Frank Windsor

  DCS John Watt

  6 eps

• 

  Robert Henderson

  Dr John Francis Condon / Judge Blaisdell

  2 eps

• 

  Peter Marinker

  Bruno Richard Hauptmann

  1 ep

Themes

• based on true story
• anthology
• true crime
• unsolved crime
• lost media

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