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Little Dorrit is a miniseries produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston and based on Charles Dickens' serial novel. In Episode 4, Mr. Pancks recruits John Chivery for his investigation of the Dorrit case. Arthur Clennam proposes to Pet Meagles, but she is already engaged to Henry Gowan. Tattycoram leaves the Meagles family for Miss Wade; Mr. Meagles fails to convince her to return. Rigaud visits Mrs. Clennam's house, pretending that he's come on business....
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Little Dorrit is a miniseries produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston and based on Charles Dickens' serial novel. In Episode 2, Arthur remains suspicious that his family might have been involved in the Dorrit family's downfall, and he resolves to help them in any way he can. He also becomes reacquainted with his childhood sweetheart, Flora Casby. Meanwhile, in France, the murderer Rigaud becomes reacquainted with his old cellmate Cavalletto. Amy is moved...
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Little Dorrit is a miniseries produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston and based on Charles Dickens' serial novel. In Episode 1, Amy Dorrit lives in the Marshalsea Prison for Debt with her father, William Dorrit, who has been an inmate for countless years. Although born and bred in the prison, she has grown up to be an enterprising young woman. As the story begins, she gains employment as a seamstress at the House of Clennam under the stern and formidable...
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Little Dorrit is a miniseries produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston and based on Charles Dickens' serial novel. In Episode 6, Fanny worries about the burgeoning affection between Mr. Dorrit and Mrs. General and pursues marriage to Edmund Sparkler. Mrs. Merdle enlists the help of her husband in finding a way of getting Edmund away from Fanny; Mr. Merdle secures a position for him at the Circumlocution Office. Back in England, Mr. and Mrs. Meagles receive...
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Little Dorrit is a miniseries produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston and based on Charles Dickens' serial novel. In Episode 7, Mr. Dorrit returns to England with the newlyweds, Fanny and Edmund Sparkler. Mr. Merdle offers to help him invest his fortune; Arthur Clennam also decides to invest Doyce and Clennam capital in Merdle's bank. Mrs. Clennam is suspected of involvement in Rigaud's disappearance. Arthur is convinced that Rigaud's hold over the House...
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Little Dorrit is a miniseries produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston and based on Charles Dickens' serial novel. In Episode 3, John Chivery proposes to Amy. Amy has already fallen for Arthur and turns him down. Mr. Dorrit is upset that Amy has disappointed the Chiverys. Arthur is ignorant of Amy's feelings for him and dislikes Pet's rival suitor, Henry Gowan. However, he meets and forms a business partnership with inventor Daniel Doyce. Cavalletto arrives...
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Little Dorrit is a miniseries produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston and based on Charles Dickens' serial novel. In Episode 5, the Dorrits make their triumphant departure from the Marshalsea. Arthur knows he may never see them again. Mr Dorrit wants to leave the past, and everyone in it, behind him. He employs Mrs. General to offer instruction in etiquette to his daughters and takes his family on a tour of Europe. Amy provides for Maggy and the Plornishes...
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Little Dorrit is a miniseries produced by the BBC and WGBH Boston and based on Charles Dickens' serial novel. In Episode 8, Mr. Merdle's death sends shockwaves through London, as investors learn he has swindled them of their money. One of those people is Arthur Clennam, who finds himself in the Marshalsea Prison for Debt. When Amy Dorrit discovers that Arthur is now an inmate, she abandons her own family's financial crisis and rushes to be by his...
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Amy Dorrit's (Claire Foy) gentle spirit has never been dampened by the confining walls of the Marshalsea Prison she's lived in her whole life. Despite the dark shadow of debtor's prison, Amy lovingly cares for her father William Dorrit (Tom Courtenay), the longest serving inmate. A possibly redemptive light unexpectedly shines in the form of Arthur Clennam (Matthew Macfadyen), who has been left with the intriguing threads of a mystery after his father's...
10) Little Dorrit
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When Arthur Clennam returns to London after many years in China working for the family business, he wants to learn whether or not his father's dying words and a watch with a stange inscription have anything to do with his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
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