Bleak House (1985)

Episode One

(1985)

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| TV Episode | United Kingdom | Colour | Crime, Drama
| Stars: Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott, Rebecca Sebborn
| S1 E1 | 10th April, 1985

A question of inheritance turns into a question of murder

Bleak House (1985)
A long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, comes about because a testator has written several conflicting wills.

Episode cast

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Diana Rigg
Lady Honoria Dedlock
Photograph from The Holly and the Ivy (1952) featuring Denholm Elliott (as Michael Gregory) (1)
John Jarndyce
Rebecca Sebborn
Young Esther
Fiona Walker
Miss Barbary
Suzanne Burden
Esther Summerson
Chris Pitt
Jo
Donald Sumpter
‘Nemo’
Jonathan Moore
William Guppy
Graham Crowden
Lord Chancellor
Lucy Hornak
Ada Clare
Philip Franks
Richard Carstone
Sylvia Coleridge
Miss Flite
Bernard Hepton
Krook
Stephen Kemble
Footman
Peter Vaughan
Tulkinghorn
Robin Bailey
Sir Leicester Dedlock
Frank Windsor
Gridley
Kathy Burke
Guster
Sam Kelly
Snagsby
Arthur Hewlett
Waggoner
T P McKenna
Harold Skimpole
Cathy Murphy
Housemaid
Wanda Lynam
Begging woman
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Production

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John Harris
Producer
Betty Willingale
Producer
Ross Devenish
Director
Arthur Hopcraft
Writer (dramatised by)
Charles Dickens
Writer (novel)