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Cribb'' (Sergeant Cribb'' in North America) is a television police drama, which debuted in 1979 as a 90-minute TV film from Granada Television in the United Kingdom. Later, thirteen 50-minute episodes were produced, which ran from 1980-81.
Adapted from Peter Lovesey's Sergeant Cribb historical mystery novels and set in Victorian London around the time of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888, Alan Dobie starred as the tough Detective Sergeant who worked for the newly formed Criminal Investigation Department (CID), determined to remove crime from the streets of London using the latest detection methods.
The series portrayed life in Victorian England, and the programmes included many real historical events such as the publication of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat and the sale of London Zoo's famous elephant, Jumbo, to Barnum and Bailey's Circus. The stories included issues such as bare-knuckle prize fighting, spiritualism and Irish terrorism. Assisting Cribb was Detective Constable Thackery, played by William Simons.
The 1979 pilot episode was entitled Waxwork and featured Carol Royle and Susie Blake and was produced and directed by June Wyndham-Davies.
Cribb is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Australia- Benjamin Cribb, pioneer and politician in Queensland
- James Clarke Cribb, politician in Queensland
- Joan Cribb, botanist and mycologist
- Robert Cribb, pioneer and politician in Queensland
- Roger Cribb, Australian archaeologist and anthropologist
- Thomas Bridson Cribb, politician in Queensland, Australia
- Ron Cribb, New Zealand rugby union player
- Joe Cribb, a British numismatist
- Tom Cribb, English bare-knuckle boxer
- T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and a former Presidential advisor