"Jericho" (2005) TV series

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

16 October 2005 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title

Cast

Robert Lindsay	...	D.I. Michael Jericho (4 episodes, 2005)
David Troughton	...	Sgt. Clive Harvey (4 episodes, 2005)
Ciarán McMenamin	...	DC John Caldicott / ... (4 episodes, 2005)
Nicholas Jones	...	AC Cherry / ... (4 episodes, 2005)
Lydia Leonard	...	Angela (4 episodes, 2005)
Lee Ross	...	Louis (4 episodes, 2005)
Kellie Bright	...	WPC Penny Collins (4 episodes, 2005)
Aurélie Bargème	...	Juliette (4 episodes, 2005)
Eve Matheson	...	Rita Harvey (4 episodes, 2005)
Brendan Coyle	...	Christie (3 episodes, 2005)
Aran Bell	...	Jericho's Father (3 episodes, 2005)
Andrew Thorpe	...	Young Jericho (3 episodes, 2005)
Zoe Colton	...	Jenny Harvey (3 episodes, 2005)
Peter Bowles	...	Fleming (2 episodes, 2005)
Grant Davis	...	Grace (2 episodes, 2005)

Runtime:

UK:120 min (including commercials) (4 episodes)

Country:

USA | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

State Theatre, George Street, Grays, Essex, England, UK

Company:

Granada Television

Trivia:

Episode 1.1 was dedicated to the memory of N'Deaye Ba (aka Inday Ba) who played Martha Sorin. She died on 26 April 2005, shortly after she finished filming for her role in Jericho.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Comedy Connections: To the Manor Born (#4.5)" (2006)

Not the greatest

This series invites a direct comparison with Foyle's War, and Jericho definitely comes off second-best. It's clear that from a production point of view the creators of Jericho threw all they had at their disposal. There is an overdone music soundtrack which verges on the annoying. There are all the props to re-create the 1950's feel, including even two period London double-decker buses, and the costumes are first-rate, but somehow it seems to go wrong so much of the time. There is an attempt to relive film noir, but that's hard when you shoot in color. There are even typewritten subs for each location in the episodes -- a cliché long before this series was made.

As DI Michael Jericho, Robert Lindsay seems to be lost, and he's not much helped by the scripts. Is Jericho supposed to be confident media hero, maverick detective, harried cop just doing his job, or neurotic failing to come to terms with the death of his father (which he relives far too often in flashback)? Even his dyed hair looks wrong -- only men of a certain orientation dyed their hair in the 1950's; and he's not enough of an actor to persuade us to forget that he plays a comic dentist in the series "My Family." In short, this is no Foyle's War, and Lindsay is no Michael Kitchen.