Dir: Julian Farino.
Scr; Sandy Welch.
Cast: Paul McGann, Steven Mackintosh, Keeley Hawes, Anna Friel, David Morrissey.
Adapted from the novel by the same name by Chalres Dickens, the plot begins with the body of John Harmon, a young man returning from South Africa to claim his inheritance, being pulled from the River Thames. Harmon had been expected to marry Bella Wilfer, a young woman chosen by his father, but now the Harmon fortune will go to the poor but honest Mr. Boffin and his wife. The Boffins adopt Bella, and together they begin to climb the ladder of London society, under the watchful eye of Boffin’s new secretary, who may not be what he seems. Meanwhile Eugene Wrayburn, an idle young lawyer, falls for Lizzie Hexam, the daughter of the man who pulled Harmon’s body from the river, but he must compete for her affections with the schoolmaster Bradley Headstone. As the fortunes of the characters rise and fall, the River Thames flows on, the symbolic backbone of this remarkable story.
David played Bradley Headstone, the dangerous and homicidal schoolmaster with affections for Lizzie Hexam.