TV series

Second Verdict

1976 · 1 season

A dry, talky mix of reenactment and two detectives debating old cases, more like a televised cold-case review than a thriller.

Overview: 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.
How it feels: Earnest, melancholic and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Mystery, justice, death, crime
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: mystery
justice
death
crime
memory
Places: workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
procedural
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none