Jack the Ripper
“The hunt is on for the world's most infamous diabolical murderer.”
About
Jack the Ripper is a 1988 two-part television film/miniseries portraying a fictionalized account of the hunt for Jack the Ripper, the unidentified serial killer responsible for the Whitechapel murders of 1888. The series coincided with the 100th anniversary of the murders.
Cast
Michael Caine
as Inspector Frederick Abberline
Jane Seymour
as Emma
Lewis Collins
as Sergeant George Godley
Armand Assante
as Richard Mansfield
Lysette Anthony
as Mary Jane Kelly
Michael Gothard
as George Lusk
T. P. McKenna
as O'Connor
Richard Morant
as Dr. Acland
Christopher Fulford
as Beggar
Harry Andrews
as Coroner Wynne Baxter
Peter Armitage
as Sergeant Kerby
Hugh Fraser
as Sir Charles Warren
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
as Rodman
Desmond Askew
as CopyBoy
Ray McAnally
as Sir William Gull
Susan George
as Catherine Eddowes
Ken Bones
as Robert James Lees
David Ryall
as Bowyer
John Dair
as Isenschmid
John Fletcher
as P.C. Watkins
Seasons
Episodes
Miniseries
Episode 1
In the early hours of Friday morning, August 31st 1888 a penniless prostitute was slaughtered on a London Street. Her name was Mary Ann Nichols. With the death of this one woman began a reign of terror so horrifying that the world remembers it still.
Episode 2
In the autumn of 1888 London's huge metropolis was gripped by fear. On the teeming streets of Whitechapel women were being torn to pieces by a killer who vanished in the shadows time after time. So terrible was the savagery, that the world remembers it still.
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