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The Frankenstein Chronicles

2015
12 episodes
2 seasons
70user score

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.

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Seasons
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Season 3

ended

There won't be a season 3, the show has ended.

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Season 2

6 episodes
Nov 1, 2017

Three 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.

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Season 1

6 episodes
Nov 11, 2015

A 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.

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Sean Bean
John Marlott
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Richie Campbell
Joseph Nightingale
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Ed Stoppard
Lord Daniel Hervey
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Anna Maxwell Martin
Mary Shelley
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Samuel West
Sir William Chester
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Eloise Smyth
Flora
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Tom Ward
Sir Robert Peel
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