In rhyming slang, Sweeney Todd is the Flying Squad (a branch of the UK's Metropolitan Police), which inspired the television series The Sweeney. References Further reading Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street edited by Robert Mack (2007). Oxford University Press. Robert Mack (2008) The Wonderful and Surprising History of Sweeney Todd: The Life and Times of an Urban Legend. Continuum. Rothman, Irving N. "Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd (1979). In The Barber in Modern Jewish Culture (2008). 365–76. External links The String of Pearls etext of the 1846/47 penny dreadful that first featured Sweeney Todd https://veermag.com/2022/03/sweeney-selina-and-the-antiheroic-tim-burton-revolutionary Listen to CBC Stage 47: "Sweeney Todd" with Maver Moore BBC Radio 4 Extra – 1835: 2. "Haircut, Sir?" Characters in Sweeney Todd Fictional hairdressers Fictional cannibals Fictional murdered people Fictional people from London Fictional people from the 19th-century Fictional serial killers Fictional uxoricides Literary characters introduced in 1846 Male literary villains Male horror film villains Male film villains Urban legends