TY - ADVS AU - Burgon,Geoffrey AU - Devenish,Ross AU - Dickens,Charles AU - Elliott,Denholm AU - Harris,John AU - Hopcraft,Arthur AU - Rigg,Diana AU - Willingale,Betty ED - Arts and Entertainment Network. ED - British Broadcasting Corporation. ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) TI - Bleak House SN - 1419814494 PY - 2005///?] CY - Burbank, CA PB - Warner Home Video KW - DVD KW - Guardian and ward KW - England KW - London KW - Drama KW - Illegitimate children KW - Young women KW - Made-for-TV movies KW - Television mini-series KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - "BBC Video classic"--Container; "BBC VIdeo"--Container; Based on the novel by Charles Dickens; Episodes 1-4 on side A and episodes 5-8 on side B; Originally produced for television in 1985 as episodes of the television series, Masterpiece Theatre; Dramatization, Arthur Hopcraft ; director, Ross Devenish ; music, Geoffrey Burgon ; producers, John Harris, Betty Willingale; Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott; MPAA rating: Not rated N2 - "At the court of Chancery, the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case grinds on for years with no end in sight. Entangled in the lawsuit are a growing number of innocent victims: Ada Clare and Richard Carstone, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a child with mysterious parentage; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. As the case staggers onward, yet more people become embroiled in the furious legal battle, including the proud Lady Dedlock, who finds herself persecuted by the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, then hunted by the determined Inspector Bucket, one of the first detectives to appear in English literature. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core [...]"--Container ER -