Sergeant Cribb
A detective from the darker side of Victorian life.
In the seedy music halls and fog-swirled streets of Victorian London, Sergeant Cribb is on the trail of killers, thieves and other assorted unpleasant characters-including Jack the Ripper. Meet an altogether different detective in this popular British series based on the novels by award-winning author Peter Lovesey.
Sergeant Cribb is not the flashiest investigator in Scotland Yard-in fact, he has little respect for the outfit and will probably never be promoted. His superiors are never eager to provide support for his efforts, so Cribb is left to rely on his own shrewdness and the plodding assistance of Constable Thackeray.
Wearing his trademark bowler hat and squeaky boots, Cribb tracks his prey amidst such Victorian pastimes as bear-fisted fighting, spiritualism in the drawing rooms of high society, nude midnight swims in the Thames and bizarre marathon "wobbles" or walking contests. Filled with lavish period detail and jaw-dropping plot twists, the adventures of Sergeant Cribb reveal the dark underbelly of Victorian life.
Member Reviews
Not bad - AKBGA
Maybe this depends on expectations. We did not expect much of the series and perhaps that is why we were pleasantly surprised by the episodes we saw on disc 1. It is not gripping but it is mildly entertaining, and we will rent the next disc in the series.
-Having rented the second disc, I can say we were not disappointed. Good, solid acting and writing, and now we are looking forward to the next episodes.Just tolerable - MovieLover
This is a really good performance by Alan Dobie as Sergeant Cribb. But wasted thus far in this series.
The episodes are uninteresting and the dramatizations are boring, unneccessarily complicated.
They just don't grip.
The supporting cast is just about tolerable.
What a waste of a good actor and a good novelist.
Both deserve a better deal.
I've just completed the third disc: the episodes are slightly only marginally better.
Dobie continues to be fine and to be wasted in a fairly pedestrian series.
But I forgot to mention one plus: the music us very good; very soothing and melodious.
Dobie and the music: that's all you'll get from this series.
Derek Fowlds of Yes Minister fame puts in an appearance in one of the episodes: he is not bad but even he is crushed by the all-round mediocrity of it all.
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Not bad - AKBGA
Maybe this depends on expectations. We did not expect much of the series and perhaps that is why we were pleasantly surprised by the episodes we saw on disc 1. It is not gripping but it is mildly entertaining, and we will rent the next disc in the series.
-Having ...Just tolerable - MovieLover
This is a really good performance by Alan Dobie as Sergeant Cribb. But wasted thus far in this series.
The episodes are uninteresting and the dramatizations are boring, unneccessarily complicated.
They just don't grip.
The supporting cast ...