Jericho (2016 TV series)
| Jericho | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Steve Thompson from an idea by Dave Ramage |
| Starring | Jessica Raine Hans Matheson Clarke Peters |
| Composer | Tim Phillips |
| Country of origin | England |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Kate Bartlett |
| Producer | Lisa Osborne |
| Production location | Yorkshire Dales |
| Running time | 65 minutes (episode 1) 45 minutes |
| Production company | ITV Studios |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 7 January 2016 – present |
Jericho is a period drama series created and written by Steve Thompson and directed by Paul Whittington.[1] The eight-part series premiered on ITV on 7 January 2016.
It is set in the fictional town of Jericho, a shanty town in the Yorkshire Dales that springs up around the construction of a railway viaduct in the 1870s. The series re-imagines the story of the building of the Ribblehead Viaduct, which is renamed the Culverdale Viaduct in the show.[2]
Premise
The series focuses upon the shanty town of Jericho, home to a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they have been brought together to build.
Cast
- Jessica Raine as Annie Quaintain, a widow with teenage children.
- Hans Matheson as Johnny Jackson, a navvy. It is discovered later in the series his real name is John Blackwood.
- Clarke Peters as Ralph Coates, a railway agent.
- Mark Addy as Earl Bamford, a detective.
- Dean Andrews as ‘Happy’ Jack Laggan, a navvy gang leader.
- Lorraine Ashbourne as Lace Polly, a prostitute.
- Amy James-Kelly as Martha Quaintain, Annie's daughter
- Samuel Bottomley as George Quaintain, Annie's son
- Daniel Rigby as Charles Blackwood.
- Jeany Spark as Isabella Lambton.
Production
Scenes were shot around Huddersfield, specifically Golcar, at the Colne Valley Museum, and on the moors above Meltham. The main setting for the shanty town was Rockingstone Quarry.[3]
Episodes
Series 1 (2016)
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | UK viewers (millions) | |
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| 1 | "Episode 1" | Paul Whittington | Steve Thompson | 7 January 2016 | 3.77 | |
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Annie Quaintain is forced out of her home when her husband dies, leaving her penniless. She seeks work at the shanty town of Jericho together with her two teenage children. Opening a boarding house, she is befriended by Johnny Jackson, her first lodger. When the workings are sabotaged and men are killed, events take a turn for the worse for her son. | ||||||
| 2 | "Episode 2" | Paul Whittington | Steve Thompson | 14 January 2016 | 3.41 | |
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Railway detective Bamford searches for Red Killeen and takes lodgings at Annie Quainton's which unsettles her son. Bamford finds a knife, leading him to suspect Killeen is dead, and discovers Coates may be behind the sabotage. Isabella finds she is unable to invest in the viaduct until she is married and makes an offer to Charles Blackwood. Bamford after meeting Coates reports to Blackwood that Killeen has fled on a ship from Liverpool. | ||||||
| 3 | "Episode 3" | Robert McKillop | Steve Thompson | 21 January 2016 | 3.16 | |
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Isabella and Charles Blackwood marry. Coates takes control of the sale of supplies to prevent hauliers profiteering, making enemies of hauliers who blockade the camp. One of the camp children dies of the strangling angel and Annie's daughter, Martha, falls foul of the same fever. Unable to break the blockade and fetch a doctor, Johnny Jackson takes her to Charles Blackwood's house. Johnny's real identity is exposed causing financial complications for Charles and Isabella. | ||||||
| 4 | "Episode 4" | Robert McKillop | Steve Thompson | 28 January 2016 | N/A | |
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Johnny is ostracised by the navvies and Charles refuses his offer that would save the project. Charles approaches a Methodist preacher as an investor. The pious Methodist insists the bar and prostitutes must go. When Annie discovers the preachers son had attacked a prostitute, she herself is threatened with arrest until Johnny intervenes. | ||||||
| 5 | "Episode 5" | Robert McKillop | Chris Dunlop | 4 February 2016 | N/A | |
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Charles cannot pay the wages and the men strike. He issues credit notes to be used in Jericho to buy goods and services. Johnny declares they are worthless and some men decide to rob Charle's house. Charles and Isabella are forced to listen to Johnny and mortgage the house and in return Johnny becomes a partner. | ||||||
| 6 | "Episode 6" | David Moore | Chris Dunlop | 11 February 2016 | N/A | |
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Charles needs to quarry stone and the only stone available is the burial site of the navvies killed at the workings. When the bodies are moved Red Killeen is discovered buried underneath the coffins. Coates finds evidence, the blanket Killeen is buried in, and is convinced Johnny is responsible. Charles discovers his wife has had an affair with Johnny before they married and a relationship that was thawing freezes again. Johnny, to protect the real culprit, flees Jericho but is brought back by Coates to face justice. | ||||||
| 7 | "Episode 7" | David Moore | Caroline Henry | 18 February 2016 | N/A | |
| 8 | "Episode 8" | David Moore | Steve Thompson | 25 February 2016 | N/A | |
References
- ^ "ITV commissions new eight-part drama series Jericho". ITV Press Centre. 14 May 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ "Jericho: Behind the scenes of a new ITV period drama". Express. 27 December 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ^ "JERICHO: Everything you need to know". Huddersfield Examiner. 6 January 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
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