Overview - A Thousand Blows

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: The Story Collective

    Production country United Kingdom

  • Name: Matriarch Productions

    Production country United Kingdom

  • Name: Water & Power Productions

    Production country United Kingdom

  • Name: The Walt Disney Company EMEA

    Production country United Kingdom

  • Name: Nebulastar

    Production country United Kingdom

Overview

Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr, Queen of an all-female criminal gang known as the Forty Elephants, and run afoul of Sugar Goodson, criminal kingpin and notorious boxer.

Seasons

  • Name: Season 1

    Episode: 6

    In season 1, as Hezekiah finds fortune and fame through the art of pugilism, he attracts the attention of the infamous Queen of the Forty Elephants, Mary Carr, who sets about exploiting his talents to further her criminal enterprise. Meanwhile the menacing and self-declared emperor of the East End boxing world, Sugar Goodson, determines to destroy Hezekiah whose ambitions to fight in the West End threatens everything he has built. What ensues is a battle of the old world against the new.

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