Adapted from Peter Lovesey's Sergeant Cribb 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, determined to remove crime from the streets of London using the latest detection methods.

London um 1880: Sergeant Cribb gehört zur neugegründeten Kriminalpolizei und kümmert sich still aber zielstrebig um die Verbrechensbekämpfung.