Bleak House (1959)
- Genre
- drama television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 11 episodes
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens novel about a long running legal case called Jarndyce and Jarndyce. The story involves several characters connected to the case including the wealthy John Jarndyce and two young wards, Esther Summerson and Richard Carstone.
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What happens
Bleak House is the first BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1853 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. Unlike most television series of the 1950s, the complete serial survived and, in 2017, was released to DVD by Simply Media. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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