Scary Tales of New York: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Iconic stories from the age of Noir, (1930's–1950's), from the ‘Lonely Hearts Killers' to ‘Murder Incorporated', delivered in the cynical, pitiless hard-boiled voice of the great crime novelists of the era – Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Jim Thompson, James M Cain and Patricia Highsmith… and with the visual flair and blackly comic drama of the Cohen Brothers.

Our uniquely restored colour footage sets the epic stage. Stabilised, frame rate corrected, it is sharpened in a way that turns grainy super 8 and 16 mil into a crisply detailed 4K window on the real mean streets of New York more than seventy years ago. The dialogue and scenes will be lifted and adapted straight from contemporary police and court statements, testimony and newspaper accounts. Real stories, real drama performed by real actors.

All interspersed with other ‘evidence' screened for us by our publisher /photographer/writer in his ‘office' – (there is no shortage of contemporary newsreel of these infamous crimes- we'll intercut restored B+W archive and Weegee style photographs with our colour archive and drama).

Series details

• Title: Scary Tales of New York
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2023-10-30
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: Sky History
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 72267
• IMDb ID: tt26922751
• TVDB ID: 441569

Cast and credited roles

• Colm Meaney — Presenter

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2023-10-30; final listed air date 2023-12-04; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from Scary Tales of New York on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.