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The Long Shadow
Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
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Episode 1
Episode #1.1
Thu, Mar 21, 202450 mins
Leeds DI Les Hanley assembles a whole team to investigate the rape, torture, murder and dumping of house-mother Wilma McCann, fearing the similar MO suggest a serial 'Ripper' all over (West) Yorkshire. Colleagues are less impressed, suggesting it's just another prostitute. The husband, a penniless blue collar worker, father of ore-teen son and daughter, is questioned as prime suspect, but cleared.
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Awards
- 2024 - The Casting Directors' Guild Award - Best Casting in a Limited or Single Series - nominated
- 2024 - BAFTA TV Award - Director, Fiction - nominated
- 2024 - BAFTA TV Award - Photography & Lighting, Fiction - nominated
- 2024 - BAFTA TV Award - Limited Drama - nominated
