The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco

Starring: Crystal Balint, Rachael Stirling, Julie Graham, et al.

Four women of high intelligence, a capacity for pattern recognition and a knack for decryption, use their skills to solve murders overlooked by police.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 883929672615
• Release Date: April 2019
• Rating: Not Rated
• Publisher: BBC Studios
• Director: Various
• Starring: Crystal Balint, Rachael Stirling, Julie Graham, Chanelle Peloso
• Runtime: 6 hours, 40 minutes
• Number of Disks: 2
• Other Video Info: dvd_video
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 7.5" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

One season and that is it.

It helps if you are familiar with the English “The Bletchley Circle” (2012). Two of the main characters were transferred to the U.S., San Francisco, to be precise. O.K., it may look a tad like British Columbia, Canada. Knowing that there were code-breaking females in the U.S., mostly stationed in San Francisco, made this series the ideal environment. I was living in Lindenville, CA, just outside South San Francisco at that time. The time is the 50s after the war, and the female code breakers are discarded (I almost said dispatched). Now, to keep their sanity, they redirect their skills by becoming quasi-detectives using their proven code-breaking skills. They look for patterns of bad guys and cabals. Naturally, they are dismissed again by the authorities; this hinders but does not stop them from doing the right thing. There may even be a little cross-continent romance brewing. They morph from number crunchers to, in their terms, bold, badass broads. Or superheroes. Each mystery takes one or two episodes to cover. In episode 9, you get the equivalent of the DVD extras. Someone gets the giggles talking about Howard’s odometer.