Ripper Street: Series One

Ripper Street: Season One is a home video collection that was released in both DVD and Blu-ray formats that includes all eight episodes from series one of the BBC period crime drama Ripper Street. The DVD was released in Region 1 format (three discs) by BBC Home Entertainment on March 12th, 2013. The Blu-ray edition was released as a two-disc set in region free code on the same date. The DVD set was released in Region 2 format in the United Kingdom on March 18th, 2013.

Ripper Street is a British period drama produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and Element Pictures and began airing on BBC One and BBC America in December, 2012. The setting is the East End of London during the late 19th century in the wake of the infamous Jack the Ripper murders. Detective Inspectors Edmund Reid and Bennet Drake are charged with keeping the peace in the seedy district of Whitechapel as the community is still reeling in the throes of the recent brutal killings. Aided by an American surgeon with a mysterious past named Captain Homer Jackson, the detectives of H Division investigate a new string of murders, which or may or may not have ties to the Ripper.

"BBC America's compelling crime drama Ripper Street set in the seething backstreets of Victorian London comes to Blu-ray! Haunted by the failure to catch London's most evil killer Jack the Ripper Inspector Edmund Reid now heads up the notorious H Division - the toughest police district in the East End. Charged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law; but always in the background lurks the fear of the Ripper is he back for another reign of terror? Rich episodic storylines meld with the intrigue of a criminal underworld festering on the hard streets of Victorian London following the battle of the men whose job it is to bring the law to the lawless"

Starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, David Wilmot, Jonathan Barnwell, MyAnna Buring, Amanda Hale, Lucy Cohu, David Dawson, Charlene McKenna