BBC 1973 Jack the Ripper Series (Barlow & Watt) Coming to DVD

[Herlock Sholmes]

I’d go Foyle and Maigret.

Michael Kitchen And Rowan Atkinson.

Maybe with Fish as Wallender

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

Imagine Danny Dyer as Abberline.

"Right, listen up slags, some melts been getting naughty in Whitechapel, and this geezers a bit tasty 'an all"

I'll have Danny Dyer and Ray Winstone. Or Ray Winstone as John Richardson! Cat house bouncer. Giving some punter the bums rush with a "next time I'll ******* kill you!"

I'd pay to see that.

[caz]

Fish and Trevor

It'll never be solved!!

[caz]

Matthew Macfadyen and Jerome Flynn?

Rupert Penry-Jones and Phil Davis?

Or my favourites, Philip Glenister and John Simm?

[Herlock Sholmes]

Imagine Danny Dyer as Abberline.

"Right, listen up slags, some melts been getting naughty in Whitechapel, and this geezers a bit tasty 'an all"

I'll have Danny Dyer and Ray Winstone. Or Ray Winstone as John Richardson! Cat house bouncer. Giving some punter the bums rush with a "next time I'll ******* kill you!"

I'd pay to see that.

Are you suggesting that two of the finest thespians of our generation are somewhat limited in their repertoires Al

[MrBarnett]

Endeavour Morse and Fred Thursday.

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2020-02-23/endeavour-series-seven-cast/

[Herlock Sholmes]

Endeavour Morse and Fred Thursday.

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2020...es-seven-cast/

Best call yet

By the way Gary, I’ve been reading up on the ‘Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm Case’ and there’s a Horse Slaughterer in the mix. A man was sent to slaughter and remove a farmers horse. The company was called Spaldings Ltd. Don’t know where they were based but it was West Midlands. This was 1942 btw. No chance of involvement in the murder though as this particular avenue came to nothing. I just wondered if they were known to you but I imagine you focus on London with your research?

[fanoofez]

Folks, I forgot to mention that although the original tv BBC version was in black and white, the version on sale on Amazon is in colour,and it looks great!

Frank Windsor and Stratford Johns play it absolutely straight.

Highly recommended!

You might have watched it in black and white back in 1973 as that's the sort of set that the majority of the population had back then, but the production was always in colour and originally transmitted that way, if you were fortunate enough to have had a colour set to watch it on!

[barnflatwyngarde]

You might have watched it in black and white back in 1973 as that's the sort of set that the majority of the population had back then, but the production was always in colour and originally transmitted that way, if you were fortunate enough to have had a colour set to watch it on!

Thanks for this Fanoofez, I wasn't aware of that, we only had a black and white telly in those days.

[MrBarnett]

Best call yet

By the way Gary, I’ve been reading up on the ‘Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm Case’ and there’s a Horse Slaughterer in the mix. A man was sent to slaughter and remove a farmers horse. The company was called Spaldings Ltd. Don’t know where they were based but it was West Midlands. This was 1942 btw. No chance of involvement in the murder though as this particular avenue came to nothing. I just wondered if they were known to you but I imagine you focus on London with your research?

Thanks for that, Mike!

My focus is on wherever my ancestors laid their poleaxes(;-)) - which includes Bilston and Wolverhampton.

Spaldings doesn’t ring a bell. There were the Leaches/Leeches in Wolverhampton and the Hodgkinsons of Bilston.

In addition, my lot operated in Whitechapel, Islington, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Dublin and County Kildare.

I’ll check the Spaldings out though, because it was a small world. Henry Tomkins, for instance, at one time had a Whitechapel knacker named Shippy boarding with him in Manchester. Shippy had previously worked in Wolverhampton where one of my ancestors was a witness to his marriage. The Shippy’s and Barnetts had previously lived and worked in Whitechapel. The ancestor in question had been in Islington at the same time as the Tomkins’s before they were caught stealing horse fat from John Harrison and moved to Manchester.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Thanks for that, Mike!

My focus is on wherever my ancestors laid their poleaxes(;-)) - which includes Bilston and Wolverhampton.

Spaldings doesn’t ring a bell. There were the Leaches/Leeches in Wolverhampton and the Hodgkinsons of Bilston.

In addition, my lot operated in Whitechapel, Islington, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Dublin and County Kildare.

I’ll check the Spaldings out though, because it was a small world. Henry Tomkins, for instance, at one time had a Whitechapel knacker named Shippy boarding with him in Manchester. Shippy had previously worked in Wolverhampton where one of my ancestors was a witness to his marriage. The Shippy’s and Barnetts had previously lived and worked in Whitechapel. The ancestor in question had been in Islington at the same time as the Tomkins’s before they were caught stealing horse fat from John Harrison and moved to Manchester.

No problem Gary. Unfortunately there’s no more info apart from the fact that the PC that was sent to examine their books was based in Oldbury so they must have been based somewhere nearby.

[Ozzy]

There's a Youtube channel called Vintage British Television that has just started to upload episodes of Second Verdict. As I type there are 2 episodes. Hopefully all 6 get uploaded. I think it's still the case that this hasn't had an official release.
Here's a link to the main page of the channel.

https://www.youtube.com/@vbt302/videos

One other goodie I found on Youtube recently. This was only broadcast once by the BBC for Xmas 1974. It's titled Dr Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery. Edward Fox as the doctor. No Holmes. No real mystery either. But it is, or at least was, rare. I've been looking for it for years. The story is by Kingsley Amis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA0LbivaRBs

[barnflatwyngarde]

There's a Youtube channel called Vintage British Television that has just started to upload episodes of Second Verdict. As I type there are 2 episodes. Hopefully all 6 get uploaded. I think it's still the case that this hasn't had an official release.
Here's a link to the main page of the channel.

https://www.youtube.com/@vbt302/videos

One other goodie I found on Youtube recently. This was only broadcast once by the BBC for Xmas 1974. It's titled Dr Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery. Edward Fox as the doctor. No Holmes. No real mystery either. But it is, or at least was, rare. I've been looking for it for years. The story is by Kingsley Amis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA0LbivaRBs

Thanks Ozzy, that channel is right up my street.