A very good post!

Yes there were not all the support services that we take for granted now and you couldn't google anything! And of course attitudes to prostitutes, abortion and social behaviour have change to the point that they would be unrecognisable back then. It was a totally different society back then and you did take most things by word of mouth as you had no other reference point to refer to.

I never saw the original in the cinema (I'm too young) but even so I do very much remember the claustrophobia of the rooms, the corridors, the streets even. You could almost physically feel the damp, the cold, the darkness and the desperation of Rillington Place.

Attenborough was great, but very different from Tim Roth.

If I remember well Attenborough was mainly menacing and cold, whereas IMO Tim Roth portrayed Christie as the real monster that he was. A sad little old man, stooping, whispering...and then the full force of what he is doing just hits you straight in the face.

I was quite glad (if that's the right word) that I watched this on BBC I Player, because by the time episode 3 came along, I had to pause it several times. It was as if Tim Roth's whispering, the "there, there, I've done this before" had seeped underneath my skin and into my mind. He made my skin crawl.

Fantastic performance Mr Roth, please don't stand behind me in Sainsbury's though.

What even if he is offering you a nice cup of tea in his best whispered Halifax accent?

I've started doing that to my wife now. She hates it.

"There there...sit down me dear...there there...be over in no time..."

That'd be grounds for divorce in this house!

Sounds like a plan - thanks for the tip.

Its Tim Roth, he can say what he likes to me!

Seriously though, i thought this was fabulous. Episode one a little slow but episodes 2 and 3 were fab. Roth deserves a Bafta for his performance.

Strange to think he was the shouty robber in Pulp Fiction. The complete opposite.

Check out this interview with Tim Roth discussing his TV film Made in Britain which was released in 1982. Be wary though there are clips from the film with profanities.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G4RM5WXCINE

I've only read a couple of posts on this so I'm probably the only one that thinks this! Whilst I think the acting was good, I didn't really enjoy the programme. I found it quite boring and Tim Roth's Christie just came across as a bit odd, not as a serial killer. I think Richard Attenborough's portrayal was much better and thought the film was far superior and told the story much better. My hearing is good but I found Tim Roth mumbled his lines quite a lot and whilst I could understand most of it, there were a few words I just couldn't understand even with replaying the scene.

To me it just didn't come across how significant this case is in British crime history, it came across like it was any old crime drama, not one that lead to the abolishment of capital punishment.

My suggestion is watch the film with Richard Attenborough if you haven't already, that is far superior.

How are serial killers meant to act?!