Jack the Ripper
NR
7.5
1988
Drama
, Crime
, Mystery
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.
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- Cast：
- Michael Caine , Jane Seymour , Lewis Collins , Armand Assante , Lysette Anthony , Michael Gothard , T. P. McKenna , Richard Morant , Christopher Fulford , Harry Andrews
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EP1 - Episode 1
October. 11,1988
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.
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EP2 - Episode 2
October. 18,1988
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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