Mr Bates vs The Post Office (2024)

Season 1

The story of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history, where hundreds of innocent sub-postmasters and postmistresses were wrongly accused of theft, fraud and false accounting due to a defective IT system.

Released Jan. 1, 2024 Episode 48 min 13+

Genres: Biography, Drama

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Watch Providers: PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel

Production Companies: ITV Studios, Little Gem Media

Network: ITV1

Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

IMDb 2642

8.4

/15498/

Trakt

/586/

TMDb

/67/

Letterboxd

3.9

/3346/

Tomatoes

/20/

Popcorn

Metacritic

/8/

James Strong
Director

Toby Jones
Alan Bates

Shaun Dooley
Michael Rudkin

Ian Hart
Bob Rutherford

Lia Williams
Paula Vennells

Alex Jennings
James Arbuthnot

Adam James
Patrick Green QC

Katherine Kelly
Angela van den Bogerd

Monica Dolan
Jo Hamilton

7.9

S1E1 - Episode 1

The first part of a four-part drama. Mysterious financial losses lead the Post Office to sack and prosecute village sub-postmasters who have no way to prove their innocence.

Jan. 1, 2024, midnight

7.9

S1E2 - Episode 2

Alan Bates and the sub-postmasters begin their fightback with new allies in Westminster, but first they must convince an independent investigator of their honesty.

Jan. 2, 2024, midnight