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The Frankenstein Chronicles
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Sean Bean
John Marlott
12 eps
Richie Campbell
Joseph Nightingale
12 eps
Ed Stoppard
Lord Daniel Hervey
12 eps
Anna Maxwell Martin
Mary Shelley
6 eps
Samuel West
Sir William Chester
6 eps
Eloise Smyth
Flora
9 eps
Kate Dickie
Mrs Bishop
6 eps
Tom Ward
Sir Robert Peel
12 eps
Vanessa Kirby
Lady Jemima Hervey
7 eps
Frank Blake
Constable Bircher
6 eps
Martin McCann
Renquist
6 eps
Guy Henry
Dean of Westminster
6 eps
Laurence Fox
Frederick Dipple
6 eps
Maeve Dermody
Esther Rose
6 eps
Paul Kennedy
Inspector Treadaway
6 eps
Kerrie Hayes
Queenie
6 eps
Claire Rafferty
Mrs. Flynn
4 eps
Chris Coghill
Blackwood
2 eps
Chris Robinson
Fox
2 eps
Kit Connor
Joey
1 eps
Francis Magee
Spence
3 eps
Phill Martin
Thomas
3 eps
Victoria Emslie
Automaton
2 eps
Lily Lesser
Ada Byron
3 eps
Claire Benedict
Mrs. Wild
3 eps
Robbie Gee
Billy Oates
3 eps
Nigel O'Neill
Reverend Crane
1 eps
Ian McElhinney
Dr. Lenox
2 eps
Louise Parker
Tatty
2 eps
Gerard Jordan
Constable Westbrook
3 eps
Niall Cusack
King William IV
1 eps
Gerard Byrne
Newspaper Editor
1 eps
Luke Griffin
Dr. Meecham
2 eps
Aaron Kelly
Sam
5 eps
Ciaran Nolan
Edgar
1 eps
Frank McCusker
Dr. Kane
1 eps
Andrew Havill
Reverend Ambrose
2 eps
Terence Keeley
Whitlock
4 eps
Roma Tomelty
Jane Smith
3 eps
Laura Hughes
Shelly's Neighbor
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Frankenstein Chronicles actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Frankenstein Chronicles reads strongest on Character Depth, World Building and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Inspector John Marlott investigates a series of crimes in 19th century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 12 episodes.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
20156 episodes
7.5IMDbA detective tracks what seems to be a killer with a taste for dismemberment in 1827 London, but the case leads in a far more terrifying direction.
Best episode · S01E06 Lost and Found
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
20176 episodes
6.8IMDbThree years have passed since John Marlott escaped from Daniel Hervey. In 1830, we find him chained and manacled in a cell at Royal Bethlem Hospital, on a wing for the criminally insane.
Best episode · S02E04 Little Boy Lost
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E06
Lost and Found
Marlott finally pieces together the movements at the hospital, but the number of suspects continue to plague his mind. Robert Peel meets with William Chester. Marlott gets authorization to use a pistol.
S01E05
The Frankenstein Murders
Boz publishes a newspaper article about the murders which causes a public outcry and infuriates Peel on the eve of the Anatomy Act. Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, follows her own line of enquiry into the medical practice of Sir William Chester, uncovering secrets from the past. Marlott decides to go back to Greenwich where it all began - is there something he is missing?
S01E04
The Fortunes of War
Marlott takes a terrified Pritty on their assignation to meet the men who kill for money – they find themselves in the tunnels under Smithfield market, which run from the Fortune of War pub to St Bart's Hospital. Flora has returned to Marlott's lodgings, but now she is back Marlott intends to use her as bait for the murderous gang, much against Nightingale's wishes.
S01E03
All the Lost Children
Having escaped the clutches of Billy Oates, Flora throws herself on Marlott's mercy. Believing her to be a key witness to Alice's disappearance, he brings her to his lodgings for safety. As the investigation continues, Marlott travels to Kentish Town to interrogate Mary Shelley. The connectionbetween her monster and the child corpse cannot be a mere coincidence…
S02E04
Little Boy Lost
An unexpected encounter with the mysterious Frederick Dipple suggests that Marlott needs to protect his allies, who he realizes are increasingly in danger.
- Directed by Alex Gabassi
S01E02
Seeing Things
After his discovery on the banks of the Thames, Inspector Marlott visits the house of artist and printmaker William Blake, who is on his deathbed. Later, Marlott confers with Nightingale, a local policeman who has been keeping watch on The Fortune of War, a public house where body snatchers are known to gather. The pair create a plan to capture a person of interest who may be able to aid them with their investigation.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S02E05
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- Directed by Alex Gabassi
- Written by Paul Tomalin
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Paul TomalinWriter
Direction
- Alex GabassiDirector
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