Bleak House (1959 TV serial)

This article is about the 1959 adaptation. For the 1985 adaptation, see Bleak House (1985 TV serial). For the 2005 adaptation, see Bleak House (2005 TV serial).

Bleak House
GenreSerial drama
Based onBleak House
by Charles Dickens
Written byConstance Cox
StarringDiana Fairfax
Andrew Cruickshank
Colin Jeavons
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes11
Production
ProducerEric Tayler
Running time30 minutes
Production companyBBC
Original release
Release16 October (1959-10-16) –
25 December 1959 (1959-12-25)
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Bleak House is the first BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1853 novel of the same name.[1] It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959.[2] Unlike most television series of the 1950s, the complete serial survived and, in 2017, was released to DVD by Simply Media.[3]

  1. ^ "Bleak House Episode 7 (1959)". BFI. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Bleak House: Episode 1". 16 October 1959. p. 19 – via BBC Genome.
  3. ^ "Bleak House – Charles Dickens (1959) (DVD)". SimplyHE.