Our Mutual Friend

Miniseries

Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.

4 Episodes

  • Episode 1
    E1
    Episode 1A body pulled from the Thames is identified as young John Harmon, heir to a fortune made in dust-contracting. Bella Wilfer, his wife-to-be by terms of old Harmon's will, goes into mourning though she has never met her fiancé.
  • Episode 2
    E2
    Episode 2Lizzie Hexam, daughter of the corpse robber who found young Harmon's alleged body, is being courted by two desperate characters: Eugene Wrayburn, a dissolute barrister, and Bradley Headstone, a mentally-deranged schoolmaster.
  • Episode 3
    E3
    Episode 3As the rivalry over who will take Lizzie's hand in marriage intensifies, Lizzie flees. Meanwhile, the once-kindly Mr. Boffin has become a tyrant to Rokesmith, who evokes the sympathy of the formerly haughty Bella.
  • Episode 4
    E4
    Episode 4Harmon is planning to claim his dust fortune from the Boffins, who have been playing villains to test Bella's true character. Meanwhile, Eugene has a brush with death via Headstone and decides to do the honorable thing with Lizzie.

Cast of Miniseries

  • Paul McGannEugene Wrayburn
  • Keeley HawesLizzie Hexam
  • Anna FrielBella Wilfer
  • Pam Ferris
  • Kenneth Cranham
  • Timothy Spall
  • Anthony Calf
  • Doon Mackichan
  • David Bradley
  • Linda Bassett
  • Margaret Tyzack
  • Michael Culkin
  • Peter Howell
  • Sarah Crowden
  • Peter Wight
  • David Schofield
  • Katy Murphy
  • Martin Hancock
  • Edna Doré
  • Cyril Shaps
  • Heather Tobias
  • Dominic MafhamMortimer Lightwood
  • Steven MackintoshJohn Harmon
  • David MorrisseyBradley Headstone
  • Peter VaughanMr. Boffin
  • Julian FarinoDirector
  • Charles DickensWriter
  • Catherine WearingProducer

 

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