8.1
North & South
2004
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
Episode 1Oct 26, 2008 · 57m · ★ 6.5When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence in his mother's house of a young seamstress, Amy Dorrit. The cold and forbidding Mrs Clennam isn't usually given to charity, so why has she made an exception in taking on Amy? Is she making reparations for a past wrongdoing? Does it have anything to do with Arthur's father's dying words and the pocket watch with its mysterious inscription, 'do not forget'?
Episode 2Oct 30, 2008 · 29mArthur befriends Amy Dorrit and involves himself in her family's affairs. If, as he suspects, his family have something to do with their ruin, the least he can do is pay off her brother's debt and give him the chance to start again. Arthur himself is planning to start again with a new job, and perhaps a renewed love for childhood sweetheart Flora Casby.
Episode 3Nov 5, 2008 · 30m · ★ 7.5Flintwinch taunts Arthur's mother about the mystery at the heart of the House of Clennam, while Amy discovers that 'a gentleman' has paid off her brother's debts, and Arthur is invited to Twickenham to renew his acquaintance with the lovely Pet Meagles.
Episode 4Nov 6, 2008 · 29m · ★ 7.0Amy receives a proposal of marriage which throws her into confusion, Arthur is taken on as a partner in Daniel Doyce's engineering works, and the French villain Rigaud arrives in London.
Episode 5Nov 12, 2008 · 30m · ★ 7.0Amy accompanies her sister Fanny to meet Mrs Merdle, queen bee of London society. Meanwhile, Rigaud comes into possession of the Clennam papers, and Chivery the turnkey asks Arthur to put in a word for young John with Amy.
Episode 6Nov 13, 2008 · 29m · ★ 7.0Pancks recruits John Chivery to help him solve the mystery that connects the Dorrit family with the House of Clennam, while Arthur proposes to Pet Meagles. Elsewhere, Tattycoram runs away from Twickenham, and Amy resigns herself to a life without the man she loves.
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
Claire FoyAmy Dorrit
Matthew MacfadyenArthur Clennam
Tom CourtenayMr. Dorrit
Judy ParfittMrs. Clennam
Emma Pierson
Alun ArmstrongEphraim Flintwinch
Eddie MarsanPancks
Jason ThorpeCavalletto
Sebastian ArmestoEdmund Sparkler
Andy SerkisRigaud
Rosie CavalieroMrs. Plornish
Amanda RedmanMrs. Merdle
Russell ToveyJohn Chivery
Georgia KingPet Gowan / Pet Meagles
Alex WyndhamHenry Gowan
Freema AgyemanTattycoram
Zubin VarlaDaniel Doyce
Maxine PeakeMiss Wade
Ruth JonesFlora Finching
James FleetFrederick Dorrit
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