A Sunday-evening full episode IN WHICH —

0:04:35: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE:

• We hear of a miraculous intervention to spare the life of a father condemned to die at the hands of his own son.

0:06:50: ROSE MORTIMER, Ch. 5:

• IN WHICH: We see Rose Mortimer as a rising star in the ballet. Her great triumph is as Goddess of Morning in a Christmas show, after which Count Lerno approaches her, telling her he has a message from her father and offering to take her to him. She hesitates, distrusting him; then Jack Halliday comes into view. So the count seizes her, bundles her into the carriage, and gallops away with her into the night! Is he really taking her to her father? Or has he something more sinister in mind? What will happen to her? Will she escape the Fate Worse Than Death at the hands of this cruel villain?

0:36:40: THE KNOCKER HUNT (Parody of a fox-hunting article):

• A humourous article from the July 4, 1841, issue of Punch Magazine, a breathless account of a pack of young upper-class "hounds" racing about London on the scent of a snazzy door knocker to steal and bear home in triumph. (Door-knocker theft was a lark for rich sports in the late Regency period.)

0:49:15: MYSTERIES OF LONDON, Ch. 5:

• IN WHICH: Richard Markham’s father dies of a broken heart, leaving him the estate at the tender age of 19. We follow him to London, where, in Hyde Park, he meets a wealthy, well-dressed man-about-town (or is he perhaps a man-upon-town? We have our suspicions) who introduces himself as Arthur Chichester. Richard’s new friend invites him to dine with a friend that night. But is Arthur Chichester all that he appears? He’s a little too brassy, almost as if playing a role; and he sure can hold a lot of liquor. So, how much trouble is our naïve young friend in?

PLUS —

• We learn a new Flash song (starting around 1:08:00) "Bill Bounce, the Swell Cove Out O' Luck." Could Bill Bounce be a close relative of Major Bounce, Mrs. Lovett's oily admirer from Sweeney Todd? — And ...
• Learn the meaning of "nabobs," "rum droppers," "schickery," and a few other words of highway-robber slang.

Join host Finn J.D. John. for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, unload your stumps, and let's go!