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Bleak House

1985

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EP1 Episode 1 Apr 10, 1985

Young 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 will, and become acquainted with her guardian John Jarndyce for the first time.
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EP2 Episode 2 Apr 17, 1985

Esther is entrusted with the running of Bleak House.
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EP3 Episode 3 Apr 24, 1985

Lady Dedlock ceases the case, Esther refuses an offer of marriage and Miss Flite collapses after a court hearing.
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EP4 Episode 4 May 01, 1985

Lady 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 hasty, and they argue.
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EP5 Episode 5 May 08, 1985

Smallweed presses George for documents in Captain Hawdon's handwriting, while Jo is questioned about the 'Lady' Tulkinghorn showed around London.
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EP6 Episode 6 May 15, 1985

Esther becomes ill with smallpox, while Smallweed inherits Krook's property.
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EP7 Episode 7 May 22, 1985

Esther, 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 soon afterwards. The lawyer Tulkinghorn, has been murdered in his rooms.
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EP8 Episode 8 May 29, 1985

Richard, now married to Ada, continues the legal cause of Jarndyce.
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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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Diana Rigg as Lady Honoria Dedlock
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