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Our Mutual Friend

Drama · 1958

Last aired: S1 E12, Episode 12 · 1959-01-23

Our Mutual Friend is a 1958 dramatization of Charles Dickens' story about a a complex tale of greed, passion and death in Victorian London.

Cast

Paul Daneman John Rokesmith

Zena Walker Miss Bella Wilfer

David McCallum Eugene Wrayburn

RL Richard Leech 'Rogue' Riderhood

Richard Pearson Nicodemus Boffin

Rachel Roberts Lizzie Hexam

Basil Henson Mortimer Lightwood

MV Marda Vanne Mrs. Henrietta Boffin

GH George Howe Reginald Wilfer

HH Helena Hughes Jenny Wren

Alex Scott Bradley Headstone

CB Carl Bernard Alfred Lammle

RG Rachel Gurney Mrs. Sophronia Lammle

RS Robert Scroggins Sloppy

Charles Hodgson Mr. Fledgeby

DN Daphne Newton Mrs. Wilfer

Wilfred Brambell Mr. Dolls

Season 1

E1 Episode 1 1958-11-07 · 30 min A waterman, rowing with his daughter on the Thames in search of plunder, finds the body of a man who had been brutally assaulted before being drowned. Who is the man?

E2 Episode 2 1958-11-14 · 30 min Society' takes a hand and Gaffer Hexam, the waterman who discovered the body, is suspected of murder.

E3 Episode 3 1958-11-21 · 30 min Noddy Boffin, the ‘Golden Dustman', engages a secretary, the Wilfers decide to take a lodger and Bella is adopted.

E4 Episode 4 1958-11-28 · 30 min Roger ‘Rogue' Riderhood claims a reward for information and Silas Wegg proposes a friendly move.

E5 Episode 5 1958-12-05 · 30 min Charley Hexam takes a brother's interest in Lizzie and Bella Wilfer takes her father, the ‘cherub', out to dinner.

E6 Episode 6 1958-12-12 · 30 min Roger Riderhood meets a stranger, Lizzie receives a proposal and a terrified Betty Higden runs away.

E7 Episode 7 1958-12-19 · 30 min The Wilfers celebrate their wedding anniversary and Noddy Boffin shows another side to his character.

E8 Episode 8 1958-12-26 · 30 min Noddy Boffin becomes a partner in the friendly move and learns that Silas Wegg has found an important document.

E9 Episode 9 1959-01-02 · 30 min Bella expresses indignation while Bradley Headstone and Roger Riderhood come to an agreement.

E10 Episode 10 1959-01-09 · 30 min Noddy Boffin's nose is to be laid on the grindstone, Bella and her father keep an appointment and Eugene Wrayburn comes to grief.

E11 Episode 11 1959-01-16 · 30 min Mr Fledgeby gets his just desserts. Rokesmith meets Mortimer Lightwood and is accused of the murder of John Harmon.

E12 Episode 12 1959-01-23 · 30 min In this final episode, Boffin becomes himself and Riderhood and Headstone meet for the last time, with tragic results.

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