Hard Times (British TV series)

• Patrick Allen – Thomas Gradgrind
• Rosalie Crutchley – Mrs. Sparsit
• Michelle Dibnah – Sissy Jupe
• Alan Dobie – Stephen Blackpool
• Barbara Ewing – Rachael
• Edward Fox – Capt. James Harthouse
• Ursula Howells – Mrs. Gradgrind
• Harry Markham – Sleary
• Jacqueline Tong – Louisa Gradgrind
• Timothy West – Josiah Bounderby
• Richard Wren – Tom Gradgrind
• Sean Flanagan – Bitzer
• Peter Martin – Waiter

Screenonline wrote "The four-part adaptation by Arthur Hopcraft is streamlined but generally very faithful to the book and, as directed by John Irvin, the serial is presented with considerable panache."^[1]

• Hard TimesatIMDb  
• Hard Times at Screenonline.
• Dickens Hard Times papers , Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester