Jekyll (TV series)
- James Nesbitt: Dr. Tom Jackman / Mr. "Billy" Hyde
- Gina Bellman: Claire Jackman
- Denis Lawson: Peter Syme
- Michelle Ryan: Katherine Reimer
- Meera Syal: Miranda
- Fenella Woolgar: Min
- Matt King: Freeman
- Linda Marlowe: Ms. Utterson
- Bruce Mackinnon: Malcolm
- Paterson Joseph Benjamin
- Andrew Byrne: Eddie Jackman
- Christopher Day: Harry Jackman
Jekyll is a written by Steven Moffat British television series that was produced by Hartswood Films and Stage Screen Productions for BBC One in 2007.
Action
Dr. Tom Jackman is a living in the presence of scientists. He turns around for quite some time (six months at the beginning of the first episode ) regularly in a animalischere incarnation of himself with this other person - Mr. Hyde - Jackman meets an agreement: They share the body peacefully under certain conditions. Jackman has a wife and two children, the existence of which he keeps secret from Mr. Hyde. He tries to Hyde using modern technical tools to keep them under control and so to lead with him a peaceful coexistence. Inform each other via voice recorder must kill anyone on the whereabouts and Hyde, otherwise Tom to the police. This works as far as possible, to Jackman finds out that they are both Jackman and Hyde, the reason for a more than century-old conspiracy of a secret organization. Throughout the series a genetic link between Jackman and the allegedly childless, living in the 19th century, Dr. Henry Jekyll is suspected, which clears up in the last episode.
Background
The series is in the eyes of their creators rather a continuation of the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as an adaptation of the substance. The story of Robert Louis Stevenson used the series as a background story.
Episode List
Hyde was shot trying to protect Tom's children. This Hyde refrained from his injuries after he was shot to share with Tom. Tom survived. Jackman's sons also appear to bear some of the " Jekyll & Hyde " genes. Tom notes in the finale that he, as expected, has the " Jekyll & Hyde" genes not from his father, but his mother - Mrs. Utterson.
Reception
- Holger Kreitling praises the television series in the newspaper Die Welt as " fine transformation of Stevenson's classic shower from 1886 to the present. "