Teach You a Lesson
2026 · Action & adventure · Drama
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TV series / 2025
A Thousand Blows
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.
The story
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.
The seasons
Season 1
Season 1
Season details
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.
Season 2
Season 2
Season details
One year later, Hezekiah's a shadow of the man he once was whilst Sugar Goodson is estranged from his family and drinking himself to death. Just as Wapping is about to sigh its last breath, Mary Carr bursts back into town with her loyal second, Alice Diamond, to reassemble her gang and reclaim her crown. As always, Mary has a plan; one which will involve all those she holds dearest. And this time it's riskier than ever.
Cast
Malachi KirbyHezekiah Moscow
Erin DohertyMary Carr
Stephen GrahamHenry 'Sugar' Goodson
Caoilfhionn DunneAnne Glover
Morgan HilaireEsme Long
Jemma CarltonBelle Downer
James Nelson-JoyceEdward 'Treacle' Goodson
Hannah WaltersEliza Moody
Darci ShawAlice Diamond
Nadia AlbinaVerity Ross
Jason TobinMr Lao
Daniel MaysWilliam 'Punch' Lewis
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Gary LewisJack Mac
Francis LovehallAlec Munroe
Tom DavisCharlie Mitchell
Ned DennehyBull Jeremy
Catherine McCormackSophie Lyons
Ziggy HeathPeggy Bettinson
Ashley WaltersSwitch
Jair EllisYoung Hezekiah Moscow
Susan LynchJane Carr
Maeve DermodyLady Grace
Aliyah OdoffinVictoria Davies
Jerome WrightMC
Adam NagaitisEarl of Lonsdale
Elliot CableDickie Summerville
Elliot WarrenSharkey Devenish
Thomas ReddyPunch's Son
Eddie TollSaul Woolfe
Ella Lily HylandMarianne Goodson
Elise EvansRose Goodson
Will BagnallThomas Goodson
Tom AndrewsMarquess of Queensbury
Lee SellersErnest Hall
Andy ApolloGeorge Linton
Ruaridh MollicaNicolas Grafton
Ian DonnellyWorker
David HartleyPoliceman
Shane NooneInn Keeper
Alastair ElleryZoo Guard
Kieran O'BrienMr Harkness
Joel EllisPastor Deacon
Antony SomersFink
Lizzie MunceyIvy
James HarknessBrenner
Stacey GhentDance Trio
Dawn BucklandDance Trio
Jonathan BourneComique Performer
Jessica ReeveMiss Lala
Fergus CraigMr Percival
Kwong LokeLi Hongzhang
Chike ChanLo Feng Lu
Jack BardoeMartin Hawke
Angus Castle-DoughtyMoreton Frewen
Kim DurhamThomas Carlyle
Martin SimsCrown Jeweller
Tim SteedVance Murtagh
Henry OliverYoung Boy
Anil DesaiPastor Mohamed
Robert GlenisterIndigo Jeremy
Christian ContrerasJerry Knox
Nathan HubbleBuster Williams
Michael ArmstrongHugh White
Mace PhoenixPage Boy
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