Director: Claire Downes
Noel Fielding steps into the tricorn hat and velvet coat of England's most romanticized outlaw for this 2024 comedy series, trading historical accuracy for anarchic sketch-show energy at every turn.
What is The Completely Made Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin about?
Reluctantly pushed into leading a scrappy band of outlaws, Turpin spends the season bumbling from one absurd scheme to the next, all while the hopelessly corrupt lawman Jonathan Wilde hunts him down. Claire Downes directs a cast that leans hard into deadpan silliness rather than swashbuckling drama, with Hugh Bonneville playing gleefully against type as a preening antagonist. The show borrows the shape of an eighteenth-century crime caper only to fill it with modern sketch-comedy timing, sight gags, and a supporting cast of outlaws who are far better at bickering than robbing coaches.
Cast & crew
Noel Fielding anchors the series with the same off-kilter charm he's brought to other comedy work, while Michael Fielding and Marc Wootton round out Turpin's gang with distinct comic personalities. Ellie White and Mark Heap add sharp supporting turns, and Samuel Leakey fills out the younger cast. Hugh Bonneville, better known for weightier period drama, gets to be gleefully petty here as Wilde.
Context & significance
Dick Turpin has been reinvented many times in British popular culture, from penny-dreadful hero to pantomime villain, and this series leans fully into parody rather than legend-building. Filming took place across the UK, with production design that nods to eighteenth-century England while never taking the period seriously. The half-hour episode format keeps the pace brisk, closer to a modern sitcom than a traditional costume drama, and the tone sits comfortably alongside other absurdist British comedy.
Where & how to watch
The series streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and subtitles available, so viewers can follow Turpin's chaos in Farsi from the very first episode. A free account login is all that's needed to start watching, and the platform's Farsi-language interface makes browsing and picking up new episodes straightforward for Persian-speaking audiences.