TV series
Jack the Ripper
Overview
Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders.
Details
- First air date
- 1988-10-11
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 2 episodes
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Crime
- Network
- ITV1
- Production
- Thames Television, Euston Films
- Country
- GB
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Michael Caine as Inspector Frederick Abberline
- Jane Seymour as Emma
- Lewis Collins as Sergeant George Godley
- Armand Assante as Richard Mansfield
- Lysette Anthony as Mary Jane Kelly
- Michael Gothard as George Lusk
- T. P. McKenna as O'Connor
- Richard Morant as Dr. Acland
- Christopher Fulford as Beggar
- Harry Andrews as Coroner Wynne Baxter
- Peter Armitage as Sergeant Kerby
- Hugh Fraser as Sir Charles Warren
Creators and crew
- Derek Marlowe - Creator
- David Wickes - Creator
- Robert O'Connor - Executive Producer
- Lloyd Shirley - Executive Producer
- Leonard Hill - Executive Producer
- David Wickes - Producer
Episodes
Episode 1
In the early hours of Friday morning, August 31st 1888 a penniless prostitute was slaughtered on a London Street. Her name was Mary Ann Nichols. With the death of this one woman began a reign of terror so horrifying that the world remembers it still.
Episode 2
In the autumn of 1888 London's huge metropolis was gripped by fear. On the teeming streets of Whitechapel women were being torn to pieces by a killer who vanished in the shadows time after time. So terrible was the savagery, that the world remembers it still.
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