Cracker - When Robbie Coltrane's Fitz Came To Hong Kong
In Looking For Robbie, Neil Norman provides a superb episode-by-episode guide to Jimmy McGovern's Cracker. Here, I take a whack at 1996's 'White Ghost', the first of two Cracker special editions.
Without every episode taking place within the shadow of Old Trafford, Maine Road and/or the Arndale Centre, Jimmy McGovern's Cracker never sought to disguise the fact it was set in Manchester. No, one couldn't claim the city functioned as an uncredited character in the same way as, say, Baltimore does in The Wire. However, McGovern's was a programme tha…
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