The League Of Gentlemen: All Their Other Shows Ranked From Worst To Best

ITV's gritty contemporary crime drama of historic murder copycats was set in Jack the Ripper's old stomping ground. It ultimately lost the battle for audience interest in a Ripper-inspired detective series (with one of the leads from Spooks) to the BBC's Ripper Street. The series, which co-starred Pemberton as socially awkward writer and Ripperologist Edward Buchan, was nevertheless a solid, atmospheric, if not terribly original, crime drama.

For the third and fourth seasons, Whitechapel abandoned the single plot arc that had been the basis of the first two in favour of a succession of two-part stories. It was on one of these double bills in the final season that Pemberton took over as writer, the only episodes not penned by regular series scribes Ben Court and Caroline Ip.

Pemberton's episodes allowed his own sometimes two-dimensional character some development beyond creepy exposition. Buchan took centre stage and was put in peril in a grisly horror movie-style story of a killer wearing victims' faces inspired by the notorious Ed Gein. Otherwise it was pretty much business as usual for a series that had, by this point, began to become a little repetitive.