Our Mutual Friend

Name: Our Mutual Friend
Genre: Drama
Released: 1998-03-09
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Steven Mackintosh, Anna Friel, Peter Vaughan, Pam Ferris, Keeley Hawes

7.8 Mar 1998 1 Season 4 Episodes

Ended

Drama

Overview

After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.

Created by Sandy Welch

BBC

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · English

Cast

Steven Mackintosh

John Harmon / John Rokesmith

Anna Friel

Bella Harmon / Bella Wilfer

Peter Vaughan

Nicodemus 'Noddy' Boffin

Pam Ferris

Henrietta Boffin

Keeley Hawes

Elizabeth 'Lexie' Hexam

Dominic Mafham

Mortimer Lightwood

Paul McGann

Eugene Wrayburn

Kenneth Cranham

Silas Wegg

Timothy Spall

Mr Venus

Anthony Calf

Alfred Lammle

Doon Mackichan

Sophronia Lammle

David Bradley

Roger 'Rogue' Riderhood

Key Crew

Julian Farino

Director

Charles Dickens

Novel

Sandy Welch

Writer

Marilyn Johnson

Casting

Phillippa Giles

Executive Producer

Michael Wearing

Executive Producer

Catherine Wearing

Producer

David Odd

Director of Photography

Steve Ellingworth

Grip

Episode 1

A body pulled from the Thames is identified as young John Harmon, heir to a fortune made in dust-contracting. Bella Wilfer, his wife-to-be by terms of old Harmon's will, goes into mourning though she has never met her fiancé.

Mar 9, 1998 90m ★ 9.0

Episode 2

Lizzie Hexam, daughter of the corpse robber who found young Harmon's alleged body, is being courted by two desperate characters: Eugene Wrayburn, a dissolute barrister, and Bradley Headstone, a mentally-deranged schoolmaster.

Mar 16, 1998 90m ★ 9.0

Episode 3

As the rivalry over who will take Lizzie's hand in marriage intensifies, Lizzie flees. Meanwhile, the once-kindly Mr. Boffin has become a tyrant to Rokesmith, who evokes the sympathy of the formerly haughty Bella.

Mar 23, 1998 90m ★ 9.0

Episode 4

Harmon is planning to claim his dust fortune from the Boffins, who have been playing villains to test Bella's true character. Meanwhile, Eugene has a brush with death via Headstone and decides to do the honorable thing with Lizzie.

Mar 30, 1998 90m ★ 9.0

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