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''Jack the Ripper'' is a six-part
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police procedural made in 1973, in which the case of the
Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in the autumn of 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer w ...
murders is reopened and analysed by Detective Chief Superintendents Barlow and Watt (
Stratford Johns Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002), known as Stratford Johns, was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the long-running ...
and
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, respectively). These characters were hugely popular with UK TV viewers at the time from their appearances on the long-running police series ''
Z-Cars ''Z-Cars'' or ''Z Cars'' (pronounced "zed cars") is a British television police procedural series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, near Liverpool. Produced by the BBC, it debut ...
'' and its sequels '' Softly, Softly'' and ''
Barlow at Large ''Barlow at Large'', later ''Barlow'', is a British police procedural television programme broadcast in the 1970s, starring Stratford Johns in the title role. Johns had previously played Barlow in the ''Z-Cars'', '' Softly, Softly'' and '' So ...
''. 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 ''
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'', in which Barlow and Watt cast their gaze over miscarriages of justice and unsolved mysteries from the past.


Cast

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Stratford Johns Alan Edgar Stratford Johns (22 September 1925 – 29 January 2002), known as Stratford Johns, was a British stage, film and television actor who is best remembered for his starring role as Detective Inspector Charlie Barlow in the long-running ...
as DCS Charlie Barlow *
Frank Windsor Frank Windsor Higgins (12 July 1928 – 30 September 2020), known professionally as Frank Windsor, was an English actor, primarily known for his roles on television, especially policeman John Watt in ''Z-Cars'' and its spin-offs. Biography Win ...
as DCS John Watt * Gordon Christie as Inspector Abberline * Hugo De Vernier as Albert Cadoche * Christopher Fenwick as John Richardson * Chris Gannon as Timothy Donovan * Gabrielle Hamilton as Mrs. Richardson *
Basil Henson Basil Henson (31 July 1918 – 19 December 1990) was an English actor. Henson had a lengthy career on stage and television. His stage performances included a number of parts in Shakespeare productions, including ''The Merchant of Venice'' oppos ...
as Sir Charles Warren * Julie May as Mrs Fiddymont * Geoffrey Rose as Dr. Bagster Phillips * Rosalind Ross as Elizabeth Long *
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as Catherine Eddowes * Peter Spraggon as Sergeant Thicke * Varley Thomas as Emily Holland * Kenneth Thornett as PC Neil * Gabor Vernon as Louis Diemschütz *
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as Mrs Barnett


Episodes


Release

''Jack the Ripper'' was made available for
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. It was first distributed by 20th Century-Fox Television, in cooperation with
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. When televised in the United States, it featured Sebastian Cabot as host-narrator, and was broadcast variably using the title ''The Whitechapel Murders'' or the original ''Jack the Ripper''. The series was also adapted into a book titled ''The Ripper File'' authored by series script writers Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd. The 1979 film ''
Murder by Decree ''Murder by Decree'' is a 1979 mystery thriller film directed by Bob Clark. It features the Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who are embroiled in the investigation surrounding the real-life 1 ...
'', starring
Christopher Plummer Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer (December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021) was a Canadian actor. His career spanned seven decades, gaining him recognition for his performances in film, stage, and television. He received multiple accolades, inc ...
as Sherlock Holmes investigating the
Whitechapel murders The Whitechapel murders were committed in or near the largely impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London between 3 April 1888 and 13 February 1891. At various points some or all of these eleven unsolved murders of women have ...
, was based on ''The Ripper File''.


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* 1970s British television miniseries Television series about Jack the Ripper 1973 British television series debuts 1973 British television series endings 1970s British police procedural television series English-language television shows British television spin-offs {{BBC-tv-prog-stub