Jack the Ripper

TV Mini Series
1973

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The highly popular detective pair from the series Softly, Softly, Barlow and Watt, try to solve the old mystery of Jack The Ripper in this documentary series.The highly popular detective pair from the series Softly, Softly, Barlow and Watt, try to solve the old mystery of Jack The Ripper in this documentary series.The highly popular detective pair from the series Softly, Softly, Barlow and Watt, try to solve the old mystery of Jack The Ripper in this documentary series.

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Stratford Johns

Det. Chief Supt. Charles Barlow

Frank Windsor

Det. Chief Supt. John Watt

Frank Duncan

Wynne Baxter

Alan Cullen

Dr. George Bagster Phillips…

Lewis Wilson

Cleveland Street Detective…

Hal Jeayes

George Hutchinson

Maurice O'Connell

Police Constable William Smith

Norman Henry

Major Henry Smith

Allan McClelland

Dr. Robert Anderson…

Gordon Christie

Inspector Frederick Abberline

Jean Hilton

Elizabeth Stride

Eamonn Boyce

Joseph Barnett

Christopher Benjamin

Club Man

Brian Badcoe

Dr. Frederick Gordon Brown

Norman Scace

Dr. Roderick Macdonald

Rosalind Ross

Elizabeth Long

Basil Henson

Sir Charles Warren

Kenneth Keeling

George Lusk

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Other than Barlow and Watt, no other character from "Softly Softly Task Force" makes an appearance in the "Jack the Ripper" series.

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Featured in Biography: Jack the Ripper: Phantom of Death (1995)

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The finest documentary ever made about JtR!!!!

The popular detectives of BBC's "Softly, Softly" - Det. Chief Supt. Barlow (Stratford Johns) & Det. Chief Supt. Watt (Frank Windsor) - take a "busman's holiday" as they take a week off their busy careers to read over the files of the infamous Whitechapel Murderer - Jack the Ripper - in an attempt to discern his probable identity from the evidence provided.

JACK THE RIPPER (a.k.a. "The Ripper File") by John Lloyd & Elwyn Jones is truly a milestone in both JtR Documentary & Drama, where the key players (in true BBC style) vocalise only what was said on record.

Shown in six 50 minute episodes ("The First Two", "Double Event", "Butchery", "Panic", "Suspects" & "The Highest in the Land?") it is still the most accurate depiction to date.