The Frankenstein Chronicles

The Frankenstein Chronicles
Genre	Drama Fantastic
Created by	Benjamin Ross Barry Langford
Starring	Sean Bean Anna Maxwell Martin Charlie Creed-Miles Eloise Smyth Samuel West Vanessa Kirby Mark Bazeley Tom Ward Ed Stoppard Elliot Cowan Richie Campbell Ryan Sampson Kate Dickie Robbie Gee Steven Berkoff
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	52 minutes
Production company(s)	Rainmark Films
Release
Original network	ITV Encore
Picture format	480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) 1080i (HDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	11 November 2015 (2015-11-11) – present

The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television drama series that has aired on ITV Encore since 11 November 2015. A&E network picked up the series for American television, describing it as "a thrilling and terrifying re-imagining of the Frankenstein Myth set in 19th century London."^[1][2][3]

Fans of Sean Bean may notice some references to his previous work: the character John Marlott was a soldier in the 2nd Battalion 95th Rifles as was Richard Sharpe and in one scene he is seen to unpack the distinctive green jacket of the Rifle regiment from his belongings. In another scene a suspect Marlott is surveilling is heard humming the tune to "Over the Hills and Far Away", which was the theme to Sharpe.

On 20 June 2016 it was announced that ITV had renewed The Frankenstein Chronicles for a second season.^[4]

Cast

• Sean Bean^[5] as John Marlott, a River Police officer
• Anna Maxwell Martin as Mary Shelley
• Charlie Creed-Miles as Pritty, a body snatcher
• Eloise Smyth as Flora, a homeless child
• Samuel West as Sir William Chester, a renowned surgeon
• Vanessa Kirby as Lady Jemima Hervey, an empoverished noblewoman, sister to Lord Harvey
• Mark Bazeley as Gernet Chester, Sir William's cousin, also a surgeon
• Ed Stoppard as Lord Daniel Hervey, an empoverished nobleman, running a charity hospital
• Tom Ward as Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary
• Elliot Cowan as Sir Bentley Warburton, Sir Robert Peel's political rival
• Richie Campbell as Nightingale, a Bow Street Runner
• Ryan Sampson as 'Boz', a journalist from The Morning Chronicle
• Robbie Gee as Billy Oates, a hardened street-smart criminal
• Kate Dickie as Mrs. Bishop, the matron of a gang of killers
• Steven Berkoff as William Blake
• Deirdre Mullins as Agnes Marlott, John Marlott's deceased wife

Episodes

References

• Giovanni Aldini, an Italian physicist, attempted to resurrect the body of a man named George Foster after his execution on January the 13th 1803 for the double murder of his wife and daughter. Mary Shelley was five years old at the time, and although she never named Aldini as a source of inspiration she used the term of galvanism in her 1831 novel Frankenstein.

External links

• The Frankenstein Chronicles at the Internet Movie Database