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  1. City of Vice
    2008 · Historical drama · 1 season

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  2. City of Vice: With Ian McDiarmid, Francis Magee, Steve Speirs, Alice O'Connell. In 18th-century London, novelists Henry and John Fielding fight crime on the perilous streets of Covent Garden, determined to clean up the city rife with prostitution, gambling, and villainy before modern policing.

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    • 2008-01-14
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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › City_of_ViceCity of Vice - Wikipedia

    City of Vice is a British historical crime drama television series set in Georgian London and first screened on 14 January 2008 on Channel 4 . Premise. The series mixes fiction with fact following the fortunes of the famous novelist Henry Fielding ( Ian McDiarmid) and his brother John ( Iain Glen ).

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  4. Amidst a soaring crime epidemic, the new magistrates of Westminster, novelist Henry Fielding (Ian McDiarmid, Star Wars) and his blind half-brother, John (Iain Glen, Game of Thrones), decide to set up the city's first professional police force: the Bow Street Runners.

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  6. Episode #1.1. In the lawless London of the 1750s, Henry Fielding, the humane novelist and magistrate, and his blind brother John, set up the Bow Street Runners, an embryonic police force with three other men who must be above corruption. They are bank-rolled by Lord Newcastle.

  7. Sep 18, 2022 · Amidst a soaring crime epidemic, the new magistrates of Westminster, novelist Henry Fielding (Ian McDiarmid, Star Wars) and his blind half-brother, John (Iain Glen, Game of Thrones), decide to set up the city"s first professional police force: the Bow Street Runners.

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  9. Overview. In the 1750s London’s perilous streets were run by armed gangs, corrupt night watchmen and thief takers. Then two Westminster magistrates, novelist Henry Fielding and his brother, John, obtained a grant from Parliament allowing them to bring some law and order to the crime-ridden boroughs of Central London.

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