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.
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?
Aired: 5/27/1976Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?