Tonight at a glance
- Length
- 1 season · 2 episodes
- Status
- Miniseries
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
The story
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.
- detective
- scotland yard
- newspaper
- jack the ripper
- investigation
- police
- psychopath
- victorian england
- serial killer
- miniseries
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Lysette Anthony
- Michael Gothard
- T. P. McKenna
- Richard Morant
- Christopher Fulford
- Harry Andrews
- Peter Armitage
- Hugh Fraser
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths
- Desmond Askew
- Ray McAnally
- Directed
- David Wickes
- Created
- Derek Marlowe, David Wickes
- Written
- Derek Marlowe, David Wickes
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 118 ratings
- Network & studio
- ITV1, Thames Television, Euston Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
