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Second Verdict

1976-05-271 seasons · 6 episodes0h 50mCrime / Drama7.0/10TMDB · 1 votes

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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6 episodes1976-05-27

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Created byTroy Kennedy Martin Elwyn Jones

Original languageEnglish

Original release1976-05-27

ProductionUnited Kingdom

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Stratford JohnsDCS Charles Barlow

Frank WindsorDCS John Watt

Robert HendersonDr John Francis Condon / Judge Blaisdell

Peter MarinkerBruno Richard Hauptmann

Burnell Tucker

Burnell TuckerCharles A. Lindbergh

Weston Gavin

Weston GavinDavid Wilentz

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Thick WilsonEdward J. Reilly Shane RimmerHarold Giles Hoffman Paul ChapmanThomas More Michael Tudor BarnesChronicler Brian HayesProfessor William Wright Terrence HardimanDominic Mancini John BoswallDr Thomas Langton Brian HawksleyGuillaume de Rochefort Colin StarkeyKing Richard III Jonathan SoperKing Edward V Robin SoperPrince Richard, Duke of York Cyril ShapsHenri Désiré Landru Elizabeth BennettFernande Segret Frank MiddlemassPresident Gilbert Michael BarringtonSolicitor General Godefroy Ivor RobertsMaitre de Moro-Giafferi John GabrielDoctor Vallon Jack HollowayDeputy Prosecutor Beguin Ralph WatsonJohn Alexander Dickman Evadne StevensMrs Nisbet Mark DignamSir Sidney Rowan-Hamilton Patrick BarrClarence Henry Norman Hugh ManningE. Tindal Atkinson, KC John HumphryE. Mitchell-Innes, KC William FoxThe Honorable Mr Justice Bernard Coleridge David CrosseCC Fullarton James Roy PattisonSuperintendent Weddell Richard HenryPercival Harding Hall Roger AvonWilson Hepple Rosemary LeachLizzie Borden David HealyHosea Knowlton James BerwickGeorge Robinson Patti LoveBridget Sullivan Gordon SterneDr Dolan Norwich DuffThomas Kieran Tony SibbaldAssistant Marshal Fleet Christopher MalcolmPatrolman Mullaly Ronald LaceyMarinus Van der Lubbe George PravdaGeorgi Dimitroff Michael SheardDr Bunger Cyril AppletonScranowitz Neville BarberLateit Roy McArthurHelmer John AbineriHeisig Ben BazellWolf von Helldorf John BarrardBernstein John HerringtonDr Parisius Pamela Tudor-CraigSelf – Medieval Art Historian (uncredited)

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