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Cribb
Genre
Mystery Period drama
Based on
The Sergeant Cribb novels by Peter Lovesey
Starring
Alan Dobie William Simons David Waller
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language
English
No. of series
2
No. of episodes
14
Production
Running time
60 minutes
Original release
Network
ITV
Release
23 December 1979 (1979-12-23) – 10 May 1981 (1981-05-10)
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Cribb (Sergeant Cribb in North America) is a television police drama, which debuted in 1979 as a 90-minute TV film from Granada Television in the United Kingdom. Later, thirteen 50-minute episodes were produced, which ran from 1980 to 1981.[1]
Adapted from Peter Lovesey's Sergeant Cribb historical mystery novels and set in Victorian London around the time of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888, Alan Dobie starred as the tough Detective Sergeant who worked for the newly formed Criminal Investigation Department (CID), determined to remove crime from the streets of London using the latest detection methods.[2]
The series portrayed life in Victorian England, and the programmes included many real historical events such as the publication of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat and the sale of London Zoo's famous elephant, Jumbo, to Barnum and Bailey's Circus.[3] The stories included issues such as bare-knuckle prize fighting, spiritualism and Irish terrorism. Assisting Cribb was Detective Constable Thackery, played by William Simons.[4]
The 1979 pilot episode was entitled "Waxwork" and featured Carol Royle and Susie Blake and was produced and directed by June Wyndham-Davies.[5]
^Cribb on the Internet Movie Database
^"Cribb". Television Heaven.
^"Cribb | Nostalgia Central". 19 November 2010.
^".:: CRIBB ::". britishdrama.org.uk.
^"Waxwork (1979)". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019.
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