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Release Date: 16 Fri, Oct 1959
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.
11 Episodes
as John Jarndyce
as Esther Summerson
as Richard Carstone
as Mrs. Rachael
as Ada Clare
as Lady Honoria Dedlock
as William Guppy
as Mr. Tulkinghorn
as Allan Woodcourt