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| Genre | Period drama |
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| Composer | Geoffrey Burgon |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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| Cinematography | Kenneth MacMillan |
| Running time | 52 minutes |
| Production company | BBC Television |
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| Network | BBC2 |
| Release | 10 April (1985-04-10) – 29 May 1985 (1985-05-29) |
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Bleak House is a BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adaptedbyArthur Hopcraft from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House (1853).[1]
The series was the second adaptation of Bleak House by the BBC (the first being in 1959).[2] It ran for eight episodes and starred Diana Rigg as Lady Dedlock, with Denholm Elliott in the role of John Jarndyce.[3]
In the United States, the series ran under the Masterpiece Theatre series umbrella.[4]
A notable plot omission in this version is the story of Caddy Jellyby and the Turveydrop family.
As opposed to the standard of videotape for studio-based scenes and film for location-based scenes, the series was shot entirely on 16mm colour film.
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