Cribb
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| Genre | Mystery Period drama |
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| Starring | Alan Dobie William Simons David Waller |
| Template:Pluralize from text of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 14 |
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| Running time | 60 minutes |
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| Network | ITV |
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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][2]
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.[3]
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.[4] The stories included issues such as bare-knuckle prize fighting, spiritualism and Irish terrorism. Assisting Cribb was Detective Constable Thackery, played by William Simons.[5]
The 1979 pilot episode was entitled "Waxwork" and featured Carol Royle and Susie Blake and was produced and directed by June Wyndham-Davies.[6]
Main cast
- Alan Dobie as Sergeant Daniel Cribb
- William Simons as Constable Edward Thackeray
- David Waller as Inspector Jowett
Episodes
Series 1
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Series 2
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DVD
Cribb is available on Region 2 DVD as a box set, distributed by Acorn Media UK. The series has been released in Region 1 by BFS Video.
Radio dramatizations
Six of the stories from Series 1 have also been dramatized for radio[7] by Geoffrey M Matthews as part of the BBC Saturday Night Theatre strand.[8][9]
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References
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- ^ Cribb on the Internet Movie Database
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Joseph, Michael (1980). 25 Years on ITV. London: Independent Television Books Ltd. p. 274. ISBN 0 900727 81 0. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cribb". Television Heaven.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cribb | Nostalgia Central". 19 November 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.".:: CRIBB ::". britishdrama.org.uk.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Waxwork (1979)". BFI. Archived from the original on 23 March 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."TV, Film And Radio". peterlovesey.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."radio plays,DIVERSITY WEBSITE,bbc,radio drama,saturday night theatre - Lost, 1988-1970". suttonelms.org.uk.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Radio drama - DIVERSITY WEBSITE - 1987". suttonelms.org.uk.
