Little Dorrit
Little Dorrit
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Little Dorrit

7.8 / 10
2008
1 season
14 episodes
Drama

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

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Seasons

  • Episode 1

    1.Episode 1

    0.0
    26-10-200853m

    When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence in his mother's house of a young seamstress, Amy Dorrit. The cold and forbid...

  • Episode 2

    2.Episode 2

    0.0
    30-10-200853m

    Arthur befriends Amy Dorrit and involves himself in her family's affairs. If, as he suspects, his family have something to do with their ruin, the least he can do is pay off her br...

  • Episode 3

    3.Episode 3

    7.5
    05-11-200852m

    Flintwinch taunts Arthur's mother about the mystery at the heart of the House of Clennam, while Amy discovers that 'a gentleman' has paid off her brother's debts, and Arthur is inv...

  • Episode 4

    4.Episode 4

    7.0
    06-11-200853m

    Amy receives a proposal of marriage which throws her into confusion, Arthur is taken on as a partner in Daniel Doyce's engineering works, and the French villain Rigaud arrives in L...

  • Episode 5

    5.Episode 5

    7.0
    12-11-200852m

    Amy accompanies her sister Fanny to meet Mrs Merdle, queen bee of London society. Meanwhile, Rigaud comes into possession of the Clennam papers, and Chivery the turnkey asks Arthur...

  • Episode 6

    6.Episode 6

    7.0
    13-11-200852m

    Pancks recruits John Chivery to help him solve the mystery that connects the Dorrit family with the House of Clennam, while Arthur proposes to Pet Meagles. Elsewhere, Tattycoram ru...

  • Episode 7

    7.Episode 7

    8.0
    19-11-200852m

    Rigaud introduces himself to the House of Clennam, while Arthur is best man at Pet's marriage to Henry Gowan. Pancks concludes his investigation into the Dorrit family's long incar...

  • Episode 8

    8.Episode 8

    6.0
    20-11-200853m

    Mr Dorrit is released from the Marshalsea after more than twenty years, and takes his family abroad to reinvent themselves as members of society. Miss Wade commissions Rigaud to sp...

  • Episode 9

    9.Episode 9

    6.0
    26-11-2008

    The Dorrits arrive in Venice, and Fanny renews an old acquaintance with Edmund Sparkler and his redoubtable mother Mrs Merdle. Meanwhile, Amy makes a friend in Pet Gowan, united th...

  • Episode 10

    10.Episode 10

    7.0
    27-11-2008

    Fanny has stolen the heart of Edmund Sparkler, whose mother, Mrs Merdle, is determined to separate them once and for all. Meanwhile, Merdle's Bank is besieged by investors, and Art...

  • Episode 11

    11.Episode 11

    7.0
    03-12-2008

    Romance is in the air as Mrs General starts her campaign to woo Mr Dorrit, and Fanny turns the full beam of her attention on Sparkler. Meanwhile, an unwelcome reminder of the old d...

  • Episode 12

    12.Episode 12

    7.0
    04-12-2008

    Mr Dorrit leaves Amy behind in Venice as he returns to London with newlyweds Fanny and Sparkler, but the high life is not all he had hoped it would be. Meanwhile, Arthur invests Do...

  • Episode 13

    13.Episode 13

    7.0
    10-12-2008

    Mr Dorrit returns to Venice, a broken man, after a visit to London revives unwelcome memories. Arthur warns his mother that she may be in danger from Rigaud. And Amy and Arthur mee...

  • Episode 14

    14.Episode 14

    7.0
    11-12-2008

    Mr Merdle's death and the collapse of Merdle's Bank sends shockwaves through London as thousands face financial ruin. Arthur returns to the Marshalsea a prisoner, Amy goes back to...

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