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2008 · Drama · Crime
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TV series / 1976
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.
The story
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.
The seasons
Season 1
Miniseries
Season details
A dramatised documentaries of classic criminal cases and unsolved crimes from history re-appraised by fictional police officers.
Cast
Stratford JohnsDCS Charles Barlow
Frank WindsorDCS John Watt
Robert HendersonJudge Blaisdell · Dr John Francis Condon
Peter MarinkerBruno Richard Hauptmann
Burnell TuckerCharles A. Lindbergh
Weston GavinDavid Wilentz
Thick WilsonEdward J. Reilly
Shane RimmerHarold Giles Hoffman
Paul ChapmanThomas More
Michael Tudor BarnesChronicler
Brian HayesProfessor William Wright
Terrence HardimanDominic Mancini
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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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