Ripper Street – Series 1-2 Matthew Macfadyen 2014 DVD Top-quality

The first two series of the TV drama starring Matthew Macfadyen as a detective trying to maintain the law on the streets of Whitechapel in the wake of the Jack the Ripper murders. Though the immediate threat posed by the Ripper seems to have receded, H Division’s Detective Inspector Edmund Reid (Macfadyen), aided by the hard-boiled Sergeant Bennett Drake (Jerome Flynn) and American forensics expert Captain Homer Jackson (Adam Rothenberg), still has his hands full trying to keep the East End streets safe. Series 1 episodes are: ‘I Need Light’, ‘In My Protection’, ‘The King Came Calling’, ‘The Good of This City’, ‘The Weight of One Man’s Heart’, ‘Tournament of Shadows’, ‘A Man of My Company’ and ‘What Use Our Work?’. Series 2 episodes are: ‘Pure As the Driven’, ‘Am I Not Monstrous?’, ‘Become Man’, ‘Dynamite and a Woman’, ‘Threads of Silk and Gold’, ‘A Stronger Loving World’, ‘Our Betrayal: Part One’ and ‘Our Betrayal: Part Two’.