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Bleak House:

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All eight episodes of the superb 1985 BBC Dickens adaptation, scripted by Arthur Hopcraft.

This is Dickens' exposure of the labyrinthine English legal system that remains relevant today. Icily beautiful Lady Dedlock (Diana Rigg) struggles to conceal a past love affair from the villainous lawyer Tulkinghorn. Meanwhile her abandoned child from the affair, Esther Summerson, grows up unaware of her heritage under the charge of John Jarndyce (the wonderful Denholm Elliot).

Bleak House hails from the golden age of British television drama with its great cast fully inhabiting Dickens unforgettable characters.