Second Verdict
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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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

Burnell Tucker
Charles A. Lindbergh · 1 ep

Weston Gavin
David Wilentz · 1 ep
Thick Wilson
Edward J. Reilly · 1 ep

Shane Rimmer
Harold Giles Hoffman · 1 ep

Paul Chapman
Thomas More · 1 ep
Michael Tudor Barnes
Chronicler · 1 ep
Brian Hayes
Professor William Wright · 1 ep

Terrence Hardiman
Dominic Mancini · 1 ep
John Boswall
Dr Thomas Langton · 1 ep
Brian Hawksley
Guillaume de Rochefort · 1 ep
Colin Starkey
King Richard III · 1 ep
Jonathan Soper
King Edward V · 1 ep
Robin Soper
Prince Richard, Duke of York · 1 ep

Cyril Shaps
Henri Désiré Landru · 1 ep

Elizabeth Bennett
Fernande Segret · 1 ep

Frank Middlemass
President Gilbert · 1 ep
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