In the 6-part BBC crime drama Whitechapel: The Ripper Returns from 2009, Detective Inspector Joseph Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) arrives in London's working-class Whitechapel, site of Jack the Ripper's 19th-century rampage, to head up a murder inquiry. Detective Ray Miles (Philip Davis), a hard-bitten veteran, is none too happy to report to such a posh fellow, but Chandler gives the case his all, making the rest of the team look like slackers.
After the first brutal killing, Edward Buchan (Steve Pemberton), a local Ripperologist, suggests that the culprit may be a copycat.
As the murder rate rises and clues are scarce, this unlikely trio sets out to solve the most famous unsolved murder case in history — Jack the Ripper — the first internationally known serial killer. Will the unlikely team succeed where 120 years ago others failed, and solve the most famous unsolved murder case in history?
Television mini-series adaptations of popular fiction were at one time all the rage, and Aspen, loosely adapted from the 1973 novel The Adversary by Bart Spicer and airing on NBC over three consecutive nights in November 1977, is a prime example of such.
Filmed on location in Aspen, Colorado — the winter playground of the rich and famous — this sprawling 3-part miniseries of sex, greed, ambition, and murder details the trial of Lee Bishop (Perry King), a local man who was arrested, tried and sentenced to die for the rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl, a crime for which Bishop is not guilty. As the years pass and Bishop sits on death row, his attorney and friend Tom Keating (Sam Elliott), does everything in his power to clear Bishop's name and find the true killer.
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