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    City-boy white-collar worker Richard Mayhew (Gary Bakewell) leads an ordinary life in London.

    One day a girl named Door (Laura Fraser) falls across his path. He helps the injured girl and the next thing he knows, his life is gone and he’s pulled into the fantastical world of ‘London Below’ – a weird parallel world underneath London.

    There, he finds a whole world of wild subcultures and crazy characters, from Old Bailey (Trevor Peacock), a man clothed in feathers who trades in birds and information, to Hunter (Tanya Moodie), a legend in her own lifetime, who is pursuing her most fearful game yet – the Beast of London Below, whom they say even whole regiments of soldiers have failed to kill.

    It’s a place of rat-speakers and floating markets (which hop around the city and are held in the shadows of London landmarks), a place of magic and mystery, supervised by its very own angel, Islington (Peter Capaldi).

    Pursued by the murderous Mr Croup (Hywel Bennett) and Mr Vandemar (Clive Russell), Lady Door and Richard – with the help of Hunter and the Marquis de Carabas (Paterson Joseph) – attempt to find the sacred key and Islington, who knows the secret behind the murder of Lady Door’s family, and possibly a way for Richard to get home.

    The BBC wouldn’t let the filmmakers shoot on film – promising instead that, if they shot on video, the footage could be processed through a ‘film filter’ afterwards. This never eventuated, however, and the sequences lit for film, but inevitably broadcast from a video source, look garish and cheap.

    Although the series was set in a fictional underworld, the crew shot the series in actual London locations – including Oxford Street, Piccadilly Circus, Battersea Power Station, HMS Belfast, the vaults underneath Clink Street, the closed-down British Museum Tube station and the rooftops above St Pancras Station.

    Scriptwriter Neil Gaiman turned the story into a novel following the completion of the series.

    The project originally sprung from the mind of comedian Lenny Henry, who initially tapped Gaiman to write an urban fantasy series set among London’s homeless community.

    Not wanting to make it seem like sleeping rough was either cool or magical, Gaiman instead re-shaped the idea as a jaunt through a timeless underworld that lurks beneath London’s streets.

    Richard Mayhew
    Gary Bakewell
    Door 
    Laura Fraser
    Mr Croup
    Hywel Bennett
    Mr Vandemar
    Clive Russell
    Marquis de Carabas
    Paterson Joseph
    Islington 
    Peter Capaldi
    Hunter 
    Tanya Moodie
    Old Bailey
    Trevor Peacock
    Jessica 
    Elizabeth Marmur
    Lamia 
    Tamsin Greig
    Gary 
    Damien Lyne
    The Earl
    Freddie Jones
    The Abbot
    Earl Cameron
    Iliaster 
    Richard Leaf
    Lord Rat-Speaker
    Sean O’Callaghan
    Halvard 
    Timothy Bateson
    Sylvia 
    Geraldine McNulty
    Anaesthesia 
    Amy Marston
    Tooley
    Arthur Whybrow
    Serpentine 
    Julie T. Wallace
    Hammersmith 
    Tony Pritchard
    Ruislip
    Morgan Johnson

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    Door | Knightsbridge | Earl’s Court to Angel Islington | Blackfriars | Down Street | As Above, So Below

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