The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television period crime drama series that first aired on ITV Encore on 11 November 2015, designed as a re-imagining of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. Lead actor Sean Bean also acted as an associate producer on the first series. It follows Inspector John Marlott (Sean Bean), a river police officer who uncovers a corpse made up of body parts from eight missing children and sets about to determine who is responsible.
The series co-stars Tom Ward as Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel and Anna Maxwell Martin as author Mary Shelley. Other historical characters portrayed include William Blake (first series) and Ada Lovelace (second series).
The first series consists of six episodes which opened to critical acclaim and drew an average 250,000 viewers per episode.
A&E subsequently acquired the series for broadcast in the United States, describing it as "thrilling and terrifying". On 20 June 2016, ITV announced that it had renewed it for a second six-part series, with production set for January 2017. Filming commenced in March 2017, with Laurence Fox and Maeve Dermody joining the cast. The writing team for the second series consisted of Michael Robert Johnson, Paul Tomalin, Noel Farragher, Colin Carberry, and Glenn Patterson, with all six episodes directed by Alex Gabassi. In December 2017, it was announced that Netflix had struck a deal to carry the program in the United States and other territories.
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Cast
- Sean Bean as Inspector John Marlott, a river police officer
- Tom Ward as Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary
- Richie Campbell as Joseph Nightingale, a Bow Street Runner
- Ed Stoppard as Lord Daniel Hervey, an impoverished nobleman and proprietor of a private charity hospital
- Vanessa Kirby as Lady Jemima Hervey, an impoverished noblewoman, sister to Lord Hervey
- Ryan Sampson as Boz, a journalist from The Morning Chronicle. Boz was also a penname used by the author Charles Dickens
- Robbie Gee as Billy Oates, a hardened street-smart criminal
- Anna Maxwell Martin as Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein (series 1)
- Charlie Creed-Miles as Pritty, a grave robber working for the local surgeons (series 1)
- Eloise Smyth as Flora, a homeless child taken by Billy Oates to work as a prostitute (series 1)
- Samuel West as Sir William Chester, a renowned surgeon and pioneer of galvanism (series 1)
- Mark Bazeley as Gernet Chester, Sir William's cousin, also a surgeon (series 1)
- Elliot Cowan as Sir Bentley Warburton, Sir Robert Peel's political rival (series 1)
- Kate Dickie as Mrs. Bishop, the matron of a gang of murderers (series 1)
- Steven Berkoff as William Blake, author, artist and printmaker (series 1)
- Deirdre Mullins as Agnes Marlott, John Marlott's deceased wife (series 1)
- Laurence Fox as Frederick Dipple, a socialite with an interest in automata (series 2)
- Maeve Dermody as Esther Rose, a seamstress contracted by Dipple to provide clothing for his mechanical creations (series 2)
- Victoria Emslie as Automaton, one of Dipple's mechanical creations (series 2)
- Lily Lesser as Ada Byron, a brilliant mathematician, and assistant to Dipple in creating his automata (series 2).
- Kerrie Hayes as Queenie Pickett, Dipple's housemaid and Nightingale's childhood friend (series 2)
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Episodes
Series 1 (2015)
Series 2 (2017)
References
External links
- The Frankenstein Chronicles on IMDb
- The Frankenstein Chronicles at epguides.com
- The Frankenstein Chronicles at TV.com
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