Release Date

16 Oct, 1959

Runtime

00:30: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

11/1

Synopsis

Bleak House is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959. It stars Andrew Cruickshank in the role of John Jarndyce, Diana Fairfax as Esther Summerson and Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone. The complete series still exists.

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Series 1

16 Oct, 1959

Adapted for television in eleven episodes by Constance Cox

Actors

Andrew Cruickshank

Diana Fairfax

Colin Jeavons

Anne Blake

Elizabeth Shepherd

Iris Russell

Timothy Bateson

John Phillips

Jerome Willis

Crew