Bleak House
“BY CHARLES DICKENS”
Bleak House is BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from Charles Dickens' novel Bleak House and it was the second adaptation by the BBC.
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1.Episode 1
10-04-1985Young Esther Summerson, brought up as an orphan, is summoned to London by her guardian's solicitors. She is to meet the Wards of Court in Jarndyce and Jarndyce court case over a wi...
2.Episode 2
17-04-1985Esther is entrusted with the running of Bleak House.
3.Episode 3
24-04-1985Lady Dedlock ceases the case, Esther refuses an offer of marriage and Miss Flite collapses after a court hearing.
4.Episode 4
01-05-1985Lady Dedlock persuades Jo, a young crossing sweeper, to show her the haunts of the late Captain Hawdon. Richard's intended engagement to Ada perturbs Jarndyce, who considers it has...
5.Episode 5
08-05-1985Smallweed presses George for documents in Captain Hawdon's handwriting, while Jo is questioned about the 'Lady' Tulkinghorn showed around London.
6.Episode 6
15-05-1985Esther becomes ill with smallpox, while Smallweed inherits Krook's property.
7.Episode 7
22-05-1985Esther, severely scarred, has recovered from smallpox. She meets Lady Dedlock, who confesses that she is her mother. Jo has been found desperately ill and living rough, but dies so...
8.Episode 8
29-05-1985Richard, now married to Ada, continues the legal cause of Jarndyce.
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