6 part docu-drama 1973 Barlow and Watt 2 disc set

Jack The Ripper
This 6 part (50 minutes each) drama-documentary was originally broadcast on BBC from 13th July - 17th August 1973.

Jack the Ripper is a six-part BBC television drama made in 1973, in which the case of the Jack the Ripper murders is reopened and analysed by Detective Chief Inspectors 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.

Featured Gordon Christie, Hugo De Vernier, Christopher Fenwick, Chris Gannon, Gabrielle Hamilton, Basil Henson, Stratford Johns, Julie May, Geoffrey Rose, Rosalind Ross, Hilary Sesta, Peter Spraggon, Varley Thomas, Kenneth Thornett, Gabor Vernon, Gary Waldhorn, Wendy Williams, Frank Windsor.

A solid sober account of the theories surrounding identity of Jack the Ripper as of 1973. Barlow and Watt of TV's Z Cars go on a 'busman's holiday' examining the surviving police files on the infamous murder case in an attempt to identify the elusive
killer. Witness statements are re-enacted and there is effective use of East End locations. The cast give understated performances, in keeping with the forensic examination of the evidence. This production is a great deal more exciting, not to say, educational, than any of the big budget flatulent Hollywood efforts
of recent years.

*** Warning
There is a clock counter at the top of the screen in episodes 1, 3 & 6 that you will easily ignore after a short time. ***

Episode 1 - The First Two - 13th July 1973
The first two murders committed in London's Whitechapel district in 1888 by a serial killer who came to be known as Jack the Ripper.

Episode 2 - Double Event - 20th July 1973
An examination of the Ripper's third and fourth victims which took place on the same evening.

Episode 3 - Butchery - 27th July 1973
A look at the Ripper's fifth and final victim.

Episode 4 - Panic - 3rd August 1973
The search for the Ripper and the ensuing panic created in the East End of London.

Episode 5 - Suspects - 10th August 1973
This episode examines some of the leading suspects in the case of Jack the Ripper.

Episode 6 - The Highest in the Land? - 17th August 1973
Could Jack the Ripper have been a member of the British royal family? This episode examines that theory.


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