City of Vice

2008 NR 50m 7.5

In the eighteenth century, London is a city filled with prostitutes, pimps, gamblers and villains. In a time before the invention of modern policing procedures, the novelist Henry Fielding and his blind brother John, battle the perilous...

In the eighteenth century, London is a city filled with prostitutes, pimps, gamblers and villains. In a time before the invention of modern policing procedures, the novelist Henry Fielding and his blind brother John, battle the perilous streets of Covent Garden in their quest to clean up the crime-ridden city.

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Episodes:

Episode 1

1.

Aired: Jan 14, 2008

In the lawless London of the 1750s, Henry Fielding, the humane novelist and m...

Episode 2

2.

Aired: Jan 21, 2008

Investigating the murder of the Reverend Erasmus Cavendish leads the Runners ...

Episode 3

3.

Aired: Jan 28, 2008

A break-in at a sugar merchant's Mayfair home brings the Bow Street Runners i...

Episode 4

4.

Aired: Feb 4, 2008

Tom Jones, an infamous gang leader, is broken out of jail by his Irish gang, ...

Episode 5

5.

Aired: Feb 11, 2008

Henry looks back on the struggle to fund the Bow Street Runners in the first ...

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Info about City of Vice

Current Status: Ended

Network: Channel 4

Genres: Drama, Crime, History