Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend
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Our Mutual Friend

Love in a city where class governs all

7.8 / 10
1998
1 season
4 episodes
Drama

After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.

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After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.

  • Episode 1

    1.Episode 1

    9.0
    09-03-199890m

    A body pulled from the Thames is identified as young John Harmon, heir to a fortune made in dust-contracting. Bella Wilfer, his wife-to-be by terms of old Harmon's will, goes into...

  • Episode 2

    2.Episode 2

    9.0
    16-03-199890m

    Lizzie Hexam, daughter of the corpse robber who found young Harmon's alleged body, is being courted by two desperate characters: Eugene Wrayburn, a dissolute barrister, and Bradley...

  • Episode 3

    3.Episode 3

    9.0
    23-03-199890m

    As the rivalry over who will take Lizzie's hand in marriage intensifies, Lizzie flees. Meanwhile, the once-kindly Mr. Boffin has become a tyrant to Rokesmith, who evokes the sympat...

  • Episode 4

    4.Episode 4

    9.0
    30-03-199890m

    Harmon is planning to claim his dust fortune from the Boffins, who have been playing villains to test Bella's true character. Meanwhile, Eugene has a brush with death via Headstone...

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