Jack the Ripper (1973 TV series)

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1973 British TV series or programme

Jack the Ripper

Created by| Troy Kennedy Martin
Elwyn Jones
Written by| Elwyn Jones
John Lloyd
Starring| Stratford Johns
Frank Windsor
Country of origin| United Kingdom
No. of series| 1
No. of episodes| 6
Production
Running time| 50 minutes
Original release
Network| BBC1
Release| 13 July (1973-07-13) –
17 August 1973 (1973-08-17)

Jack the Ripper is a six-part BBC police procedural made in 1973, in which the case of the Jack the Ripper murders is reopened and analysed by Detective Chief Superintendents Barlow and Watt (Stratford Johns and Frank Windsor, respectively). These characters were hugely popular with UK TV viewers at the time from their appearances on the long-running police series Z-Cars and its sequels Softly, Softly and Barlow at Large. 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 Second Verdict, 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 as DCS Charlie Barlow
* Frank Windsor 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 as Sir Charles Warren
* Julie May as Mrs Fiddymont
* Geoffrey Rose as Dr. Bagster Phillips
* Rosalind Ross as Elizabeth Long
* Hilary Sesta as Catherine Eddowes
* Peter Spraggon as Sergeant Thicke
* Varley Thomas as Emily Holland
* Kenneth Thornett as PC Neil
* Gabor Vernon as Louis Diemschütz
* Wendy Williams as Mrs Barnett
* Geoffrey Lumsden as editor of the Daily Telegraph

## Episodes

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No.| Title| Directed by| Written by| Original release date

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1| "The First Two"[1]| Leonard Lewis| Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd| 13 July 1973 (1973-07-13)
2| "Double Event"[2]| Gilchrist Calder| Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd| 20 July 1973 (1973-07-20)
3| "Butchery"[3]| David Wickes| Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd| 27 July 1973 (1973-07-27)
4| "Panic"[4]| Leonard Lewis| Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd| 3 August 1973 (1973-08-03)
5| "Suspects"[5]| Gilchrist Calder| Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd| 10 August 1973 (1973-08-10)
6| "The Highest in the Land?"[6]| David Wickes| Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd| 17 August 1973 (1973-08-17)

## Release

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Jack the Ripper was made available for syndication. It was first distributed by 20th Century-Fox Television, in cooperation with Metromedia.[7]

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.[8][9]

The series was also adapted into a book titled The Ripper File authored by series script writers Elwyn Jones and John Lloyd.[10] The 1979 film Murder by Decree, starring Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes investigating the Whitechapel murders, was based on The Ripper File.[11]

## References

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1. ^ "Television". The Guardian. London. 13 July 1973. p. 2. Retrieved 30 March 2019 - via Newspapers.com.
2. ^ "Television". The Guardian. London. 20 July 1973. p. 2. Retrieved 30 March 2019 - via Newspapers.com.
3. ^ "Television". The Guardian. London. 27 July 1973. p. 2. Retrieved 30 March 2019 - via Newspapers.com.
4. ^ "Television". The Guardian. London. 3 August 1973. p. 2. Retrieved 30 March 2019 - via Newspapers.com.
5. ^ "Television". The Guardian. London. 10 August 1973. p. 2. Retrieved 30 March 2019 - via Newspapers.com.
6. ^ "Television". The Guardian. London. 17 August 1973. p. 2. Retrieved 30 March 2019 - via Newspapers.com.
7. ^ "Century Theatre (print ad)" (PDF). Broadcasting. 21 May 1973. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
8. ^ Newton, Dwight (7 October 1973). "Video with Dwight Newton: The week's new shows - it's a crime". Sunday Scene. The San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle. p. 16. Retrieved 30 March 2019 - via Newspapers.com.
9. ^ Bailey, Marilyn (10 March 1974). "Jack the Ripper is back". TV Week. Minneapolis Tribune. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 30 March 2019 - via Newspapers.com.
10. ^ Jones, Elwyn; Lloyd, John. The Ripper File: The documentary investigation by Detective Chief Superintendents Charles Barlow and John Watt. Arthur Barker. ISBN 0213165368. LCCN 75328051. OCLC 1464278.
11. ^ Bob Clark (director) (1979). Murder by Decree (Motion picture). London: AVCO Embassy Pictures. OCLC 472353182. "Based on 'The Ripper File' by John Lloyd and Elwyn Jones"

## External links

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* Jack the Ripper at IMDb

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Z-Cars and related shows

* Z-Cars
* Episodes
* Theme music
* Softly, Softly
* Softly, Softly: Task Force
* Inky
* Barlow at Large / Barlow
* Jack the Ripper
* Second Verdict

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Jack the Ripper in fiction and other media

Seminal works|

* The Lodger
* Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

Letters|

* "Dear Boss" letter
* "From Hell" letter
* "Saucy Jacky" postcard

Film|

* Waxworks (1924)
* The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
* Pandora's Box (1929)
* The Lodger (1932)
* The Lodger (1944)
* Room to Let (1950)
* Man in the Attic (1953)
* Jack the Ripper (1959)
* Lulu (1962)
* A Study in Terror (1965)
* Hands of the Ripper (1971)
* Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971)
* The Ruling Class (1972)
* What the Swedish Butler Saw (1975)
* Jack the Ripper (1976)
* Murder by Decree (1979)
* Time After Time (1979)
* Jack's Back (1988)
* Edge of Sanity (1989)
* Deadly Advice (1994)
* Ripper (2001)
* From Hell (2001)
* Bad Karma (2002)
* Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street (2002)
* Shanghai Knights (2003)
* Ripper 2: Letter from Within (2004)
* The Lodger (2009)
* Holmes & Watson. Madrid Days (2012)
* Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)

Parody|

* Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
* The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town (1976)
* Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Music|

* "Jack the Ripper" (1963)
* "The Ripper" (1976)
* "Killer on the Loose" (1980)
* The Somatic Defilement (2007)
* Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter (2014)

Stage|

* Earth Spirit (1895 play)
* Pandora's Box (1904 play)
* Lulu (1937 opera)
* The Lodger (1960 opera)
* The Ruling Class (1968 play)

Comics|

* Blood of the Innocent (1985)
* Gotham by Gaslight (1989)
* From Hell (1989-98)
* Wonder Woman: Amazonia (1997)
* The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century (2009)

Literature|

| Sherlock Holmes|

* The Last Sherlock Holmes Story (1978)
* The Whitechapel Horrors (1992)
* Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography (2005)
* Dust and Shadow (2009)
* The Ripper Legacy (2016)

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Short stories|

* "A Toy for Juliette" (1967)
* "The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World" (1967)

Other|

* A Feast Unknown (1969)
* Time After Time (1979)
* Night of the Ripper (1984)
* Phantom Blood (1987)
* Naomi's Room (1991)
* Anno Dracula (1992)
* A Night in the Lonesome October (1993)
* Jack the Ripper, Light-Hearted Friend (1996)
* Matrix (1998)
* Lost (2001)
* Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed (2002)
* Blood and Fog (2003)
* The Witches of Chiswick (2003)
* Broken (2006)
* Darkside (2007)
* Lifeblood (2007)
* Dracula the Un-dead (2009)
* I, Ripper (2015)
* The Cutthroat (2017)

Television|

| Series|

* Jack the Ripper (1973)
* Jack the Ripper (1988)
* Sanctuary (2007-11)
* Whitechapel (2009-13)
* Ripper Street (2012-17)
* Time After Time (2017)
* Case File nº221: Kabukicho (2019-20)
* Sherlock in Russia (2020)
* Beforeigners (2019-present)

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Episodes|

* "Wolf in the Fold" (1967)
* "Comes the Inquisitor" (1995)
* "Ripper" (1999)
* "Sanctuary for All" (2008)
* "The Great British Fake Off" (2020)

Other|

* Bridge Across Time (1985 TV film)

Video games|

* Jack the Ripper (1987)
* The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes (1992)
* Ripper (1996)
* Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (1999)
* Shadow Man (1999)
* MediEvil 2 (2000)
* Jack the Ripper (2004)
* Sherlock Holmes Versus Jack the Ripper (2009)
* The Ripper (canceled)
* The Order: 1886 (2015)
* Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Jack the Ripper (2015)
* Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey (2019)

Other|

* Casebook: Jack the Ripper
* Blood!: The Life and Future Times of Jack the Ripper

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