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Jack the Ripper (1973 TV series)

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No. of series
  
1

Running time
  
50 minutes

Final episode date
  
17 August 1973

Networks
  
BBC, BBC One

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Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of episodes
  
6

First episode date
  
13 July 1973

Number of episodes
  
6

Created by
  
Troy Kennedy MartinElwyn Jones

Starring
  
Stratford JohnsFrank Windsor

Program creators
  
Similar
  
Z‑Cars, Ripper Street, Edge of Darkness, And Then There Were None, Randall and Hopkirk

Jack the Ripper is a six-part BBC television drama made in 1973, in which the case of the Jack the Ripper murders is reopened and analysed by Detective Chief Superintendents Barlow and Watt (Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor, respectively). These characters were hugely popular with UK TV viewers at the time from their appearances on the long-running police series Z-Cars and its sequels Softly, Softly and Barlow at Large. The programme was presented partly as a discussion between the two principals in the present day, interspersed with dramatised-documentary scenes set in the 19th century. The series discusses suspects and conspiracies, but concludes there is insufficient evidence to determine who was Jack the Ripper. The experiment was seen to be a success, and the formula was repeated in 1976 with Second Verdict, in which Barlow and Watt cast their gaze over miscarriages of justice and unsolved mysteries from the past.

Release

Jack the Ripper was made available for syndication, and was televised in the United States in 1974 with additional footage of actor Sebastian Cabot providing introductions and episode recaps. This was done to provide additional running time to fill U.S. programming slots.

References

Jack the Ripper (1973 TV series) Wikipedia


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