Little Dorrit: Season 1

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Little Dorrit

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Season Details & Credits

BBC-1 | BBC | BBC One | Season Premiere Date: October 26, 2008

Starring: Judy Parfitt, Anton Lesser, Sue Johnston

Summary: The BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' serial novel about Little Dorrit, who lived most of her life in debtors' prison with her family, airs as part of Masterpiece Classic season.

Genre(s): Drama

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E14. Episode 14
Air Date: December 11, 2008
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S1:E13. Episode 13
Air Date: December 10, 2008
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S1:E12. Episode 12
Air Date: December 7, 2008

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Tim Goodman

Little Dorrit is anchored by an extraordinary performance by one of England's best actors. And like "Twist," that central performance is only one of many elements that make Dorrit not only terrific entertainment, but, in some ways, perhaps even better than its source material. Read full review

Aubry D'Arminio

Dorrit is a gripping whodunit, a grand romance, and a timely rags-to-riches-and-back-again tale of financial corruption. Read full review

Jonathan Storm

Andrew Davies, who made 2006's Bleak House one of the best TV shows of the year, crafts another superb script, with characters and incidents squeezing out the sides, just the thing to satisfy close observers, which anyone joining this maxi mini-series should be. Read full review

Alessandra Stanley

Little Dorrit is as rich at the margins as at the center with strange, and strangely believable, characters from almost all levels of society, rendered in quick, firm strokes. Read full review

Brian Lowry

There's so much gaudy talent on display here that those with an appetite for it won't be able to get enough, and Little Dorrit gives them everything they could want in a big, gloriously messy package. Read full review

David Hinckley

Add strong performances by a dozen major characters, starting with Claire Foy as Little Dorrit, and you've got the kind of production television is often accused of having abandoned. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

All in all, this is a dynamic, addictive rendition of a complicated novel that catches the spirit of Dickens' "roaring streets" where "the noisy and the eager, and the arrogant and the froward and the vain, fretted and chafed, and made their usual uproar." Read full review

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AnnaN

Mar 31, 2009

Excellent. The best television in a long time.

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LilyD

Mar 31, 2009

A true masterpiece.

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WinstonL

Apr 6, 2009

A great rendition of a great masterpirce. It makes me want to read the book again (and that would be something, since it's over eighth hundred pages long). Still, the acting is superb, the adaptation superb, the sets are well designed. All in all, the best television in many a time.

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RosalieM

Mar 31, 2009

Matthew Macfayden is wonderful, as always, superb actor. Need to see more of him in the USA.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

81
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 26, 2008
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  S1:E14. Episode 14
  Air Date: December 11, 2008
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  S1:E13. Episode 13
  Air Date: December 10, 2008
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  S1:E12. Episode 12
  Air Date: December 7, 2008
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  S1:E11. Episode 11
  Air Date: December 3, 2008
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  S1:E10. Episode 10
  Air Date: November 27, 2008
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  S1:E9. Episode 9
  Air Date: November 26, 2008
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  S1:E8. Episode 8
  Air Date: November 20, 2008
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  S1:E7. Episode 7
  Air Date: November 19, 2008
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  S1:E6. Episode 6
  Air Date: November 13, 2008
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  S1:E5. Episode 5
  Air Date: November 12, 2008
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  S1:E4. Episode 4
  Air Date: November 6, 2008
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  S1:E3. Episode 3
  Air Date: November 5, 2008
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  S1:E2. Episode 2
  Air Date: October 30, 2008
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  S1:E1. Episode 1
  Air Date: October 26, 2008