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Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
“The biggest manhunt in British history.”
Top Cast
Michael McElhatton
CC Ronald Gregory
Jack Deam
DI Les Hanley
Lee Ingleby
DCS Jim Hobson
Kris Hitchen
DC John Nunn
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Rating
7.5/ 10
First Aired
2023-09-25
Seasons
1 Season · 7 Episodes
Genres
CrimeDrama
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User Reviews (2)
zingyyellow
No rating•10/4/2023
Based on the real life police search for the serial killer, 'The Yorkshire Ripper'. Set in the seventies, it shows us the inequalities and dated attitudes of the time, which often hamper the Police search. The tempo, acting and sets just add to an en...
aGoryLouie
7/10
•11/3/2023We in Britain pretty much have the crime procedural down to a T.
While on the one hand it can make many feel the same (see Manhunt, Code of a killer, for example), on the other it keeps them feeling realistic without much fake tension.
The Long...