City of Vice

Series & Episodes

• Episode 5

  First broadcast: Monday 11 February 2008, 12AM on Channel 4

  Searching for a way to smash the infamous Mooney gang, the Magistrates are drawn towards the Temples of Venus, notorious brothels owned by Jane Fawkland and frequented by influential clients, including Lord Newcastle.

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• Episode 4

  First broadcast: Monday 04 February 2008, 12AM on Channel 4

  Tom Jones, an infamous gang leader, is broken out of jail by his Irish gang, who maim several prison guards along the way. This high-profile jailbreak questions the authority of the Bow Street Runners and risks making Lord Newcastle look very foolish for supporting them. The Runners travel to the Seven Dials to re-arrest Jones. With Lord Newcastle reviewing the Runners' government allowance, Henry Fielding accompanies them to make sure Jones is apprehended.

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• Episode 3

  First broadcast: Monday 28 January 2008, 12AM on Channel 4

  A break-in at a sugar merchant's Mayfair home brings the Bow Street Runners into conflict with their patron, Lord Newcastle. He reminds the Fielding brothers that their prime duty is to protect the property of the rich and yet the number of burglaries has increased under their new police force. Determined to prove him wrong, the brothers search for the Irish suspects in the shanty towns of Covent Garden, known as the Seven Dials.

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• Episode 2

  First broadcast: Monday 21 January 2008, 12AM on Channel 4

  When the Reverend Erasmus Cavendish is found murdered in his Soho church, his maid informs the Runners that the reverend was a homosexual (a crime punishable by hanging) and points the finger at a man named William Flynn as the prime suspect. The Runners take their search to Miss Suki's 'Molly House,' an infamous brothel and rendezvous for London's gay men.

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• Episode 1

  First broadcast: Monday 14 January 2008, 12AM on Channel 4

  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...

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