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Our Mutual Friend (1958)

Our Mutual Friend poster
Genre
drama
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 12 episodes
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a BBC adaptation of a Charles Dickens novel. It follows several characters in London whose lives are connected by a fortune from a dust heap. The story involves greed, class, and romance.

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What happens

Our Mutual Friend is a 1958 British television mini-series adapted from Charles Dickens' 1865 novel Our Mutual Friend. The series was made by the BBC and ran through 1959 for a total of twelve episodes, broadcast live and telerecorded for potential repeats. Unlike most BBC series of the 1950s, the series exists in its entirety, and in 2017 was released to DVD by Simply Media. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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