| Ripper Street | |
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| Information | |
| Title: | Ripper Street |
| Format: | Live-action |
| Genres: | Period drama |
| Running time: | 60 min. |
| country: | UK |
| Network: | BBC One (UK) BBC America (US) |
| Seasons: | 2 |
| Episodes: | 16 |
| Production | |
| Production company: | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| Executive producers: | Greg Brenman; Will Gould; Polly Hill; Ed Guiney; Andrew Lowe; Simon Vaughan |
| Producers: | Stephen Smallwood; Katie McAleese; Cait Collins |
| Principal cast: | Matthew Macfadyen; Jerome Flynn; Adam Rothenberg; David Wilmot; Jonathan Barnwell; MyAnna Buring; Amanda Hale; Lucy Cohu; David Dawson; Charlene McKenna |
| Air dates | |
| First aired: | December 30th, 2012 |
| Last aired: | December 16th, 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 show was created by Richard Warlow and stars Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, David Wilmot, Jonathan Barnwell and MyAnna Buring. 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 slayings. 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.
Episodes[]
Season One[]
- Main article: Ripper Street/Season 1
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 1x1 | I Need Light | December 30th, 2012 |
| 1x2 | In My Protection | January 6th, 2013 |
| 1x3 | The King Came Calling | January 13th, 2013 |
| 1x4 | The Good of This City | January 20th, 2013 |
| 1x5 | The Weight of One Man's Heart | January 27th, 2013 |
| 1x6 | Tournament of Shadows | February 3rd, 2013 |
| 1x7 | A Man of My Company | February 10th, 2013 |
| 1x8 | What Use Our Work? | February 17th, 2013 |
Season Two[]
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 2x1 | Pure as the Driven | October 28th, 2013 |
| 2x2 | Am I Not Monstrous? | November 4th, 2013 |
| 2x3 | Become Man | November 11th, 2013 |
| 2x4 | Dynamite and a Woman | November 18th, 2013 |
| 2x5 | Threads of Silk and Gold | November 25th, 2013 |
| 2x6 | A Stronger Loving World | December 2nd, 2013 |
| 2x7 | Our Betrayal (Part 1) | December 9th, 2013 |
| 2x8 | Our Betrayal (Part 2) | December 16th, 2013 |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The phrase "Ripper Street" is taken from Dorset Street, which in London in 1889 was known as Miller's Court. Miller's Court is located in the rookery of Spitalfields and is the sight of the last canonical Jack the Ripper murder scene in which Jack killed prositute Mary Ann Kelly on November 9th, 1888.
Home Video[]
- Ripper Street: Series 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. [2][3]