Frankenstein Chronicles

The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television program of the period drama and crime drama genres. It is based on the 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus by English author Mary Shelley. The show was produced by Rainmark Films and began airing on ITV Encore for a six-episode inaugural season on November 11th, 2015. A second season of six episodes aired from November 1st-December 6th, 2017.

The series stars Sean Bean as John Marlott, Ritchie Campbell as Nightingale, Tom War as Sir Robert Peel, Ryan Sampson as Boz, Ed Stoppard as Lord Daniel Hervey, Eloise Smyth as Flora, Vanessa Kirby as Lady Jemima Hervey, Frank Blake as Constable Pip Bircher, Paul Kennedy as Inspector Treadaway, Maeve Dermody as Esther Rose, Laurence Fox as Frederick Dipple, Robbie Gee as Billy Oates, and Elliot Cowan as Sir Bentley Warburton.

Notes & Trivia

 * Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.


 * The setting for this series is London, England in the year 1827.


 * The Frankenstein Chronicles was first broadcast in the United States on A&E.


 * In December, 2017, it was announced that Netflix had struck a deal to carry the program in the United States and other territories.