Charles Dickens (Complete Collection - 11 Films) - 20-DVD Box Set ( The Pickwick Papers / Oliver Twist / Nicholas Nickleby / A Christmas Carol / Great Expectations / Our Mutual Friend / Hard Times / Martin Chuzzlewit / A Tale of Two Cities / Bleak House / David Copperfield )

Charles Dickens (Complete Collection - 11 Films) - 20-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$66.99

Original Title: The Pickwick Papers / Oliver Twist / Nicholas Nickleby / A Christmas Carol / Great Expectations / Our Mutual Friend / Hard Times / Martin Chuzzlewit / A Tale of Two Cities / Bleak House / David Copperfield
Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Sweden ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
2940 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1977 - 1999 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Brian Lighthill
Gareth Davies
Christopher Barry
Moira Armstrong
Julian Jarrold
Julian Farino
Peter Barnes
Pedr James
Michael E. Briant
Ross Devenish
Susanna White
Barry Letts

Written By:
Jack Davies
Charles Dickens
Alexander Baron
Hugh Leonard
Elaine Morgan
Tony Marchant
Sandy Welch
Peter Barnes
David Lodge
Peter Harding
Arthur Hopcraft
James Andrew Hall

Actors:
Nigel Stock ..... Mr. Pickwick
Clive Swift ..... Mr. Tupman
Alan Parnaby ..... Mr. Snodgrass
Jeremy Nicholas ..... Mr. Winkle
Ray Brooks ..... Narrator (12 episodes, 1985)
Phil Daniels ..... Sam Weller
Patrick Malahide ..... Mr. Jingle
Colin Douglas ..... Mr. Wardle
Milton Johns ..... Mr. Perker
Pip Donaghy ..... Job Trotter
Jo Kendall ..... Mrs. Bardell
Ben Rodska ..... Oliver Twist
Eric Porter ..... Fagin
Lysette Anthony ..... Rose Maylie
Michael Attwell ..... Bill Sikes
Pip Donaghy ..... Monks
Amanda Harris ..... Nancy
Nicholas Bond-Owen ..... Charley Bates
David Garlick ..... The Artful Dodger
Godfrey James ..... Mr. Bumble
David King ..... Giles
Frank Middlemass ..... Mr. Brownlow
Julian Firth ..... Noah Claypole
Gillian Martell ..... Mrs. Maylie
Christian Rodska ..... Barney
Edward Burnham ..... Mr. Grimwig
Carys Llewelyn ..... Charlotte
Miriam Margolyes ..... Mrs. Corney
Terry Molloy ..... Brittles
Nigel Havers ..... Nicholas Nickleby
Peter Bourke ..... Smike
Derek Godfrey ..... Ralph Nickleby
Robert James ..... Newman Noggs
Kate Nicholls ..... Kate Nickleby
Hilary Mason ..... Mrs. Nickleby
Malcolm Reid ..... Mr. Alfred Mantalini
Derek Francis ..... Wackford Squeers
Patricia Routledge ..... Madame Mantalini
Patsy Smart ..... Miss La Creevy
Anthony Ainley ..... Sir Mulberry Hawk
Nigel Hughes ..... Lord Frederick Verisopht
Denis Gilmore ..... Wackford Jnr
Raymond Mason ..... Charles Cheeryble
Preston Lockwood ..... Tim Linkinwater
Andrew McCulloch ..... John Browdie
John Hewer ..... Edwin Cherryble
Ron Pember ..... Mr. Snawley
Isabelle Amyes ..... Miss Fanny Squeers
Hetty Baynes ..... Matilda Price
Michael Hordern ..... Scrooge
John Le Mesurier ..... Marley's Ghost
Bernard Lee ..... Ghost of Christmas Present
Patricia Quinn ..... Ghost of Christmas Past
Paul Copley ..... Fred
Clive Merrison ..... Bob Cratchit
Carol MacReady ..... Mrs. Cratchit
Maev Alexander ..... Fred's Wife
Zoë Wanamaker ..... Belle
Stephen Churchett ..... John
Will Stampe ..... Fezziwig
Christopher Biggins ..... Topper
Tricia George ..... Little Blonde
John Salthouse ..... Scrooge as a Young Man
Veronica Doran ..... Caroline
Ioan Gruffudd ..... Pip
Justine Waddell ..... Estella
Charlotte Rampling ..... Miss Havisham
Laura Aikman ..... Young Biddy
Nicholas Blane ..... Wopsle
Selina Cadell ..... Sarah Pocket
Jo Cameron Brown ..... Miss Skiffins
Emma Cunniffe ..... Biddy
Tony Curran ..... Orlick
Laurence Dobiesz ..... Young Herbert
Leo Dolan ..... Sheriff's Officer
Sarah Durham ..... Maid
Michael Eaves ..... Police Officer
Daniel Evans ..... Herbert Pocket
Gemma Gregory ..... Young Estella
Bernard Hill ..... Abel Magwitch
James Hillier ..... Bentley Drummle
David Horovitch ..... Matthew Pocket
Alex Leppard ..... Gaoler
Hugh Lloyd ..... The Aged P
Roland Manookian ..... Pip's Servant
Ian McDiarmid ..... Jaggers
Ifan Meredith ..... Startop
Ryan John Monaghan ..... Pickpocket
Laila Morse ..... Molly
Lockhart Ogilvie ..... Gentleman
Terence Rigby ..... Pumblechook
Clive Russell ..... Joe Gargery
Lesley Sharp ..... Mrs Joe
Angela Sims ..... Estella's Attendant
Philippa Stanton ..... Clara
Reggie Stewart ..... Sergeant
Richard Stirling ..... Presiding Finch
Donald Sumpter ..... Compeyson
Bill Thomas ..... Tailor
Gabriel Thomson ..... Young Pip
Timothy Tranter ..... Young Orlick
Norman Tyrrell ..... Judge
Sandra Voe ..... Camilla Pocket
Nicholas Woodeson ..... Wemmick
Paul McGann ..... Eugene Wrayburn (4 episodes, 1998)
Dominic Mafham ..... Mortimer Lightwood (4 episodes, 1998)
David Bradley ..... Rogue Riderhood (4 episodes, 1998)
Anna Friel ..... Bella Wilfer / ... (4 episodes, 1998)
Peter Vaughan ..... Mr. Boffin (4 episodes, 1998)
Pam Ferris ..... Mrs. Boffin (4 episodes, 1998)
Steven Mackintosh ..... John Harmon / ... (4 episodes, 1998)
Sarah Crowden ..... First Guest (4 episodes, 1998)
Cate Fowler ..... Second Guest (4 episodes, 1998)
John Dallimore ..... Third Guest (4 episodes, 1998)
Keeley Hawes ..... Lizzie Hexam (4 episodes, 1998)
Peter Howell ..... Fourth Guest (4 episodes, 1998)
Michael Culkin ..... Mr. Veneering (4 episodes, 1998)
Anthony Calf ..... Alfred Lammle (4 episodes, 1998)
Doon Mackichan ..... Sophronia Lammle (4 episodes, 1998)
Ray Gardner ..... Fifth Guest (4 episodes, 1998)
Rose English ..... Mrs. Veneering (4 episodes, 1998)
Margaret Tyzack ..... Lady Tippins (4 episodes, 1998)
Kenneth Cranham ..... Silas Wegg (4 episodes, 1998)
Timothy Spall ..... Mr. Venus (4 episodes, 1998)
Paul Bailey ..... Charley Hexam (3 episodes, 1998)
David Morrissey ..... Bradley Headstone (3 episodes, 1998)
Robert Lang ..... Mr. Tremlow (3 episodes, 1998)
Katy Murphy ..... Jenny Wren (3 episodes, 1998)
Rachel Power ..... Pleasant Riderhood (3 episodes, 1998)
Roger Frost ..... Police Inspector (3 episodes, 1998)
Martin Hancock ..... Sloppy (3 episodes, 1998)
Cyril Shaps ..... Mr. Riah (3 episodes, 1998)
Peter Wight ..... Mr. Wilfer (3 episodes, 1998)
David Schofield ..... Gaffer Hexam (2 episodes, 1998)
Linda Bassett ..... Abby Potterson (2 episodes, 1998)
Richard Hanson ..... George Radfoot (2 episodes, 1998)
Eddie Webber ..... First Pub Regular (2 episodes, 1998)
Alan Talbot ..... Second Pub Regular (2 episodes, 1998)
Willie Ross ..... Mr. Dolls (2 episodes, 1998)
Edna Doré ..... Betty Higden (2 episodes, 1998)
Bertie Shelley ..... Little Johnny (2 episodes, 1998)
Richard Stirling ..... Reverend (2 episodes, 1998)
Heather Tobias ..... Mrs. Wilfer (2 episodes, 1998)
Catriona Yuill ..... Lavinia Wilfer (2 episodes, 1998)
Vanessa Hadaway ..... Lammle's Maid / ... (2 episodes, 1998)
Harriet Walter ..... Rachel (4 episodes, 1994)
Bill Paterson ..... Stephen Blackpool
Alan Bates ..... Josiah Bounderby
Beatie Edney ..... Louisa Gradgrind
Bob Peck ..... Thomas Gradgrind
Emma Lewis ..... Sissy Jupe / ... (4 episodes, 1994)
Richard E. Grant ..... James Harthouse
Christien Anholt ..... Tom (2 episodes, 1994)
Dilys Laye ..... Mrs. Sparsit (2 episodes, 1994)
Damian Hunt ..... Young Tom (2 episodes, 1994)
Emma Chambers ..... Charity Pecksniff (6 episodes, 1994)
Julia Sawalha ..... Mercy Pecksniff (6 episodes, 1994)
Keith Allen ..... Jonas Chuzzlewit
Philip Franks ..... Tom Pinch (6 episodes, 1994)
Tom Wilkinson ..... Seth Pecksniff
Paul Scofield ..... Old Martin Chuzzlewit
Peter Wingfield ..... John Westlock
Pauline Turner ..... Mary Graham (6 episodes, 1994)
Ben Walden ..... Young Martin Chuzzlewit
Steve Nicolson ..... Mark Tapley
Pete Postlethwaite ..... Tigg Montague
Paul Francis ..... Bailey / ... (5 episodes, 1994)
Maggie Steed ..... Mrs. Todgers (5 episodes, 1994)
Lynda Bellingham ..... Mrs. Lupin (5 episodes, 1994)
John Padden ..... Augustus Moddle (5 episodes, 1994)
Stephen Mapes ..... Lewsome
John Mills ..... Mr. Chuffey
Elizabeth Spriggs ..... Mrs. Gamp
Graham Stark ..... Nadgett
Joan Sims ..... Betsy Prig (3 episodes, 1994)
Robin Hooper ..... Mr. Jinkins (3 episodes, 1994)
Cornelia Hayes O'Herlihy ..... Ruth Pinch (3 episodes, 1994)
Hannah Tollman ..... Jane, Maidservant at Pecksniff's / ... (3 episodes, 1994)
Mike Eastman ..... Gentleman (3 episodes, 1994)
Paul Shelley ..... Charles Darnay / ... (8 episodes, 1980)
Ralph Michael ..... Doctor Manette (8 episodes, 1980)
Sally Osborne ..... Lucie Manette (8 episodes, 1980)
Vivien Merchant ..... Miss Pross (8 episodes, 1980)
Nigel Stock ..... Jarvis Lorry (7 episodes, 1980)
Judy Parfitt ..... Madame Defarge (7 episodes, 1980)
Stephen Yardley ..... Defarge (7 episodes, 1980)
Eric Mason ..... Jacques Three (6 episodes, 1980)
David Collings ..... John Barsad (5 episodes, 1980)
Peter Cleall ..... Jerry Cruncher (5 episodes, 1980)
Michael Halsey ..... Jacques One (5 episodes, 1980)
Brian Grellis ..... Jacques Two (5 episodes, 1980)
David Webb ..... Gabelle (4 episodes, 1980)
Harold Innocent ..... Stryver (3 episodes, 1980)
John Abineri ..... Roadmender (3 episodes, 1980)
Morris Perry ..... Marquis St. Evremonde (2 episodes, 1980)
Michael Gothard ..... Gaspard (2 episodes, 1980)
Frank Tregear ..... Roger Cly (2 episodes, 1980)
John Rolfe ..... Bank Clerk (2 episodes, 1980)
Harry Fielder ..... Gaoler (2 episodes, 1980)
David Rose ..... Guard Room Officer (2 episodes, 1980)
Dennis Savage ..... Young Cruncher (2 episodes, 1980)
Peter Farmer ..... Barrier Official (2 episodes, 1980)
Ralph Morse ..... Officer (2 episodes, 1980)
Diana Rigg ..... Lady Honoria Dedlock
Denholm Elliott ..... John Jarndyce
Suzanne Burden ..... Esther Summerson
Jonathan Moore ..... William Guppy
Chris Pitt ..... Jo (6 episodes, 1985)
Robin Bailey ..... Sir Leicester Dedlock
Lucy Hornak ..... Ada Clare
Philip Franks ..... Richard Carstone
Sylvia Coleridge ..... Miss Flite
Bernard Hepton ..... Krook
Sam Kelly ..... Snagsby
Pamela Merrick ..... Hortense (5 episodes, 1985)
Peter Vaughan ..... Tulkinghorn
T.P. McKenna ..... Harold Skimpole
Brian Deacon ..... Allan Woodcourt
Graham Crowden ..... Lord Chancellor
Eileen Davies ..... Judy Smallweed (4 episodes, 1985)
Charlie Drake ..... Smallweed
Dave King ..... Sergeant George
Heather Tobias ..... Jenny / ... (4 episodes, 1985)
Frank Windsor ..... Gridley
Robert Urquhart ..... Laurence Boythorn
Felicity Finch ..... Rosa (3 episodes, 1985)
Samantha Holland ..... Charley Neckett
Harry Jones ..... Phil Squod
Colin Hurley ..... David Copperfield
Brenda Bruce ..... Betsy Trotwood
Simon Callow ..... Wilkins Micawber
Jeremy Brudenell ..... Steerforth
Francesca Hall ..... Dora
Jenny McCracken ..... Peggotty
Ronald Herdman ..... Barkis
Hilary Mason ..... Mrs. Gummidge
Natalie Ogle ..... Agnes Wickfield
Owen Teale ..... Ham Peggotty
Stephen Thorne ..... Daniel Peggotty
Thorley Walters ..... Mr. Dick

Synopsis:

The Pickwick Papers (1985)
The storyline concerns a group of London gentlemen known as the Pickwick Club who decide to travel the English countryside...
Oliver Twist (1985)
12-part adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel. Eric Porter starred as the villainous Fagin.
Nicholas Nickleby (1977)
The BBC adaptation of Dicken's celebrated novel about a young man thrown out into the world to seek his fortune.
A Christmas Carol (1977)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, but then gets a visit from his companion Jacob Marley, who has been dead for seven years.
Great Expectations (1999)
Young Pip is expected to become a blacksmith, but, hating the soot and smoke, he secretly dreams of becoming a gentleman.
Our Mutual Friend (1998)
Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.
Hard Times (1994)
Based on Charles Dickens' classic novel about materialism and lovelessness in an industrial-age town.
Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
A portrait of greed and selfishness.
A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
London-lawyer (Chris Sarandon) makes the ultimate sacrifice for the woman he loves in Paris during the Reign of Terror.
Bleak House (1985)
The great case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce drags on, an obsession to all involved.
David Copperfield (1986)
Follows David Copperfield's life starting from his idyllic childhood and continuing through to adulthood.

The Pickwick Papers (1985)
Mr. Samuel Pickwick, a retired businessman is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to set off on an unforgettable excursion accompanied by his three friends - Nathaniel Winkle, who fancies himself as a sportsman, Augustus Snodgrass a passionately natured poet and Tracy Tupman, a plump bachelor who is quite fond of the ladies. The four ramblers travel through the English countryside seeking all forms of adventure and getting into trouble wherever possible.

Oliver Twist (1985)
In a storm, in a workhouse, to a nameless woman, young Oliver Twist is born into parish care where he's overworked and underfed. As he grows older his adventures take him from the countryside to London, through harsh treatment, kindness, an undertaker, and a thieves' dens, where he makes friends and enemies. But all the time he is pursued by the mysterious Monks, who hires Fagin to turn Oliver into a thief. Oliver is rescued by chance and kind friends. But it's a puzzle of legitimacy, inheritance, and identity that Oliver's friends must attempt to unravel before Monks can destroy Oliver.

Nicholas Nickleby (1977)
After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby along with his sister Kate and their mother find themselves in difficult conditions. They relocate to London in the hope that Uncle Ralph Nickleby, a successful businessman, will help them out but he proves to be difficult and cold towards his relatives. Nicholas sets off on a series of adventures starting as a school master for the one-eyed Wackford Squeers. He soon escapes the school and in the company of his new friend Smike, joins a theater group in Portsmouth. Good fortune befalls him when he meets the Cheerybles who offer him stable employment. His uncle has taken a severe dislike to the boy however and goes out of his way to make life difficult for him.

A Christmas Carol (1977)
It's the end of December and professional miser Ebenezer Scrooge absolutely despises this time of the year. He thinks Christmas is all humbug. He doesn't buy his nephew's talk of Christmas being a kind time, thinks it's absolute madness his servant Cratchit wants a day off and sends away collectors of donations for the poor penniless. It's also the time of the year in which his companion Jacob Marley died seven years ago. When he is all alone, he suddenly sees Marley again, in the door handle, in a tile, a bell suddenly rings. Humbug, thinks Scrooge. But then Marley really appears for him and tells him he should change his life. He warns Scrooge he will be haunted by three spirits, the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.

Great Expectations (1999)
Charles Dickens' classic novel, which has been brought to the screen at least six times in the past (including a modernized adaptation released in 1998), is committed to film once again in this production for television by the BBC. Pip is an orphan who lives with his older sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith. Pip is occasionally sent to visit Miss Havisham (Charlotte Rampling), an eccentric old crone who lives in a huge but filthy mansion and is always dressed in a decrepit bridal trousseau. Miss Havisham has a ward, a lovely young woman named Estella, with whom Pip is immediately smitten. However, Pip is convinced a boy of poor circumstances could never win her heart, which fills him with a desire to better himself. While economics would dictate a fate as Joe's assistant, one day Pip receives a message from a lawyer named Jaggers -- an anonymous benefactor has made it possible for Pip to leave the blacksmith's shop and pursue a gentleman's education in London. Pip (played as an adult by Ioan Gruffudd) soon moves to the city, where he hopes to gain knowledge, wealth and the affections of Estella (Justine Waddell). This version of Great Expectations made its American premier on the PBS cultural series Masterpiece Theatre, where it was shown as a three-part miniseries.

Our Mutual Friend (1998)
One of several British miniseries adaptations of Charles Dickens' novel Our Mutual Friend, this four-part version debuted over the BBC in 1998. The production's generous running time (total: six hours), enabled scenarist Sandy Welch to include virtually every important detail in this complex Victorian-era saga of how a mysterious waterfront death inextricably linked the lives of two young women, Lizzie Hexam (Keeley Hawes) and Bella Wilfer (Anna Friel). The richness of the Dickensian prose was complemented by the visuals, which incorporated everything from documentary-style handheld camerawork to Eisenstein-ish montages, and by the eerily polytonal musical score by Adrian Johnston. Our Mutual Friend was brought to America courtesy of PBS beginning January 3, 1999.

Hard Times (1994)
The difficult realities of life in Britain during the early Industrial Age are explored in this made-for-television adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens. Thomas Gradgrind (Bob Peck) is a schoolteacher working in Coketown, a grim industrial town in the North of England, who believes that facts are of supreme importance and imagination is folly. Gradgrind imposes his philosophies on his children, arranging for his daughter, Louisa (Beatie Edney), to marry Josiah Bounderby (Alan Bates), a businessman old enough to be her father, who also employs her brother, Tom (Christien Anholt). As Louisa tries to find a way out of her relationship with Bounderby, she finds herself pursued by the even more repellant James Harthouse (Richard E. Grant).

Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
Greed, selfishness, and hypocrisy drive another rollicking story from Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit features two Martin Chuzzlewits: An elderly and extremely wealthy one (the magnificent Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons), who loathes the sleazy, grasping relatives that hope to profit from his death; and his grandson (Ben Walden), a well-intentioned but self-absorbed young man who has fallen in love with his grandfather's ward, Mary Graham (Pauline Turner)--and because the elder Martin disapproves, the younger Martin has been disowned. In the gap between these two are a host of schemers, crooks, and even one or two good people--but at the center of it all is the pompous and oily Seth Pecksniff (Tom Wilkinson, In the Bedroom, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), whose manipulations and lechery make him one of Dicken's most memorable villains. Whirling in his orbit are the goodhearted but ineffectual Tom Pinch (Philip Franks); the brutish Jonas Chuzzlewit (Keith Allen); Pecksniff's daughters, the 'volatile hummingbird' Mercy (Julia Sawalha, Absolutely Fabulous) and the bitter, overlooked Charity (Emma Chambers, The Vicar of Dibley); and a host of other vivid Dickensian creations, all given juice and vitality by dozens of outstanding British actors, anchored by Scofield's magisterial presence. Because of his characters' outsized personalities and his plots' wild reversals of fortune, Dickens is ideally suited to dramatization, and Martin Chuzzlewit takes full advantage of his strengths. Lurid events like murder and blackmail contrast with rich psychological portraits, making Martin Chuzzlewit an opulent narrative feast.

A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
In this 1980 Jim Goddard version of the classic Dickens tale, it is American actor Chris Sarandon who gets to recite doomed Englishman Sydney Carton's famous line, ''It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done.'' Although Sarandon's performance as Carton is not far, far better than Ronald Colman's in the same role in the 1935 Jack Conway film, it is at least competent. And it doesn't hurt that director Goddard surrounds Sarandon with veteran British actors -- including Peter Cushing, Kenneth More, Nigel Hawthorne, and Barry Morse -- to season the film with Dickensian flair and flavor. As anyone familiar with the novel is aware, love is a central theme -- romantic love, patriotic love, humanitarian love, and in Goddard's film, this theme comes across even when Sarandon does not. Of all of the film versions of A Tale of Two Cities (at least eight), this one is not the best, but neither is it the worst; instead, it is a worthy offering that deserves a look.

Bleak House (1985)
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. It ran for eight episodes and starred Diana Rigg as Lady Dedlock, with Denholm Elliott in the role of John Jarndyce. In the United States the series ran under the Masterpiece Theatre series umbrella.

David Copperfield (1986)
David Copperfield is a 10 episode BBC mini-series broadcast in 1986 and 1987 and based on the novel David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. The series was written by James Andrew Hall and directed by Barry Letts. It was produced by Terrance Dicks. The adaptation follows the story of David Copperfield as he grows up under the care of the cruel Murdstones after the death of his mother, escapes to the care of his aunt Betsey Trotwood and later travels to London where he meets the gentle Micawbers and the scheming Uriah Heep, and falls in love with and marries the spoilt Dora Spenlow.

The Pickwick Papers (1985)
In this faithful BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic comic novel, Nigel Stock stars as Mr. Samuel Pickwick, a retired businessman who's ready for a little adventure. Setting off across England with his three best friends in tow - sportsman Nathaniel Winkle (Jeremy Nicholas), poet Augustus Snodgrass (Alan Parnaby) and ladies' man Tracy Tupman (Clive Swift) - Pickwick is desperate to find excitement but ultimately rounds up trouble.

Oliver Twist (1985)
A classic story of a poor boy that deals with the seedy underbelly of the criminal world. This version of Oliver Twist was originally produced for the BBC in 1985.

Nicholas Nickleby (1977)
Nigel Havers stars as the young Nicholas Nickleby in the BBC's triumphant adaptations of one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated novels. Upon the death of his father Nicholas, along with his mother and sister, finds himself destitute and at the mercy of his stern Uncle Ralph. Ralph cruelly dispatches his niece to a dressmaking establishment, while Nicholas is sent to a vile and oppressive boarding school for unwanted and unloved children run by the sadistic Wackford Squeers. Darkly satirical, angry, funny and hugely entertaining, Nicholas Nickleby is filled with the richest assortment of oddball characters that could only have originated from the quill of Charles Dickens.

A Christmas Carol (1977)
Ebenezer Scrooge, an old and bitter miser, is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his partner Jacob Marley and, through three successive visions, shown the error of his ways.

Great Expectations (1999)
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.

Our Mutual Friend (1998)
Our Mutual Friend is a drama series based on the book by Charles Dickens. The series starred Paul McGann, Keeley Hawes and Steven Mackintosh. The story was produced by and aired on the BBC in the UK. It featured passion, greed and betrayal. The series aired on Masterpiece Theater in the United States.

Hard Times (1994)
Four part BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel about the Industrial Revolution which aired in Great Britain in April and May of 1994. The following year a heavily edited version of Hard Times aired in the United States as a single installment of Masterpiece Theatre. Alan Bates starred.
Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
Lavish BBC costume drama starring Paul Scofield as the wealthy old man who becomes the focus for his family's greed. His grandson, also called Martin Chuzzlewit, travels to America after an argument and becomes an architect. However the younger Martin returns eventually to win back both the family fortune and the love of his life.

A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
Chris Sarandon does the ''far, far, better thing'' when he tackles the dual role of Syndey Carton and Charles Darnay in this Anglo-American TV adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. The ubiquitous producer/screenwriter combination of Norman Rosemont and John Gay was responsible for this lavish, faithful cinemazation of Dickens' multiplotted account of the French Revolution. Featured in the huge cast are Peter Cushing as Dr. Manette, Alice Krige as Lucie Manette, Billie Whitelaw as the vengeful, eternally knitting Madame DeFarge and Barry Morse as the odious aristocrat St. Evremonde. Poignantly, the film also offers the late Kenneth More, making one of his last appearances as Jarvis Lorry, and the magnificent Flora Robson, taking her final bow in the role of Miss Pross. An Emmy nomination went to Olga Lehmann's costume design. A Tale of Two Cities debuted December 2, 1980.

Bleak House (1985)
An orphaned girl finds a happy home with a wealthy man and his wards, never suspecting the truth about her origins -- or knowing her fate. But as the plot thickens, a suspenseful yarn of legal justice unfolds in this drama miniseries.

David Copperfield (1986)
A TV mini-series adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic, following the life of young Copperfield as he grows up under the care of the cruel Murdstones, travels to London where he meets the gentle Macawbers and the unctuous Uriah Heep, and falls in love with and marries the pampered Dora.

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