City of Vice

City of Vice

2008
★☆☆☆☆ 2.7/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 5 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 50 min/episode
DramaCrime
In the 1750s London’s perilous streets were run by armed gangs, corrupt night watchmen and thief takers. Then two Westminster magistrates, novelist Henry Fielding and his brother, John, obtained a grant from Parliament allowing them to bring some law and order to the crime-ridden boroughs of Central London.

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Seasons

Season 1
2008 • 5 Episodes
The Fielding brothers are dining at a tavern run by Jack Harris, an infamous pimp, when a messenger announces that a woman's body has been found at a nearby bagnio. Despite being raped and horrifically mutilated, the woman, Ann Bell, miraculously survives. Tensions mount as the murderer's identity continues to elude the Runners and they fear embarrassment by failing in their first case…

Cast

Iain Glen
Iain Glen
John Fielding
Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid
Henry Fielding
Sam Spruell
Sam Spruell
Lord Newcastle
Alice O'Connell
Alice O'Connell
Mary Fielding
Francis Magee
Francis Magee
Saunders Welch
Sean Francis
Sean Francis
Daniel Carne

Crew

Director
Justin Hardy, Dan Reed
Writer
Clive Bradley, Peter Harness
Producer
Rob Pursey, Justin Hardy, Lachlan MacKinnon

Network

Channel 4

Keywords

london, englandpoliceblindprostitutionperiod dramahistoricalgeorgianbritish history18th centuryhistorical drama