Crime / Drama
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…
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?
Was Richard III really the murderer of popular legend?
The story of Henri Landru and the mysterious disappearances of so many of his rich lady friends.
John Alexander Dickman was hanged for murdering a man aboard a train in 1910. But were the two chief witnesses against him the ones really responsible?
Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her father forty whacks - or did she?
How the mentally challenged Marinus van der Lubbe was framed for arson by the Nazis.

DCS Charles Barlow

DCS John Watt

December 2021, a man with Covid wakes up from a coma in a Glasgow hospital surrounded by detectives. They say he is Nicholas Rossi, one of America's most wanted fugitives. He claims to be a disabled academic called Arthur Knight. This is the astonishing story of one of the world's most dangerous conmen and the transatlantic battle for justice.

Madrid, Spain, February 23, 1981. A group of Civil Guards storm into the Congress of Deputies and terrorize those present by firing shots into the air. Only three men remain unmoved: Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez; Vice President Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado; and Santiago Carrillo, leader of the Communist Party.

William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and multiple appearances on Johnny Carson's couch. He is a brilliant scientist out of touch with his own feelings, and she is a single working mother ahead of her time. The series chronicles their unusual lives, romance, and unlikely pop culture trajectory.