TV Show Details
Air Date:October 16th, 1959
Last Air Date:December 25th, 1959
Network:BBC Television
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama
Original Language:English
Production Companies:BBC
Bleak House (1959)
Scripted
TV Series
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.
