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Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock....

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Corporate Authors:	British Broadcasting Corporation, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Deep Indigo Productions, BBC Video (Firm), BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc, Warner Home Video (Firm)
Other Authors:	Davies, Andrew, 1936- (Screenwriter), Anderson, Gillian, 1968- (Actor), Armstrong, Alun (Actor), Brooks, Charlie, 1981- (Actor), Clarke, Warren, 1947-2014 (Actor), Collins, Pauline, 1940- (Actor), Dance, Charles (Actor), Davis, Philip, 1953- (Actor), Gorman, Burn, 1974- (Actor), Harrington, Richard, 1975- (Actor), Kelly, Matthew, 1950- (Actor), Kennedy, Patrick, 1978- (Actor), Lawson, Denis (Actor), Lynch, John, 1961- (Actor), Maxwell Martin, Anna, 1977- (Actor), McGowan, Alistair, 1964- (Actor), Mulligan, Carey, 1985- (Actor), Parker, Nathaniel, 1962- (Actor), Press, Natalie (Actor), Reid, Anne (Actor), Richardson, Ian, 1934-2007 (Actor), Speer, Hugo (Actor), Tarbuck, Liza, 1964- (Actor), Vegas, Johnny, 1971- (Actor), West, Timothy (Actor), Georgeson, Tom (Actor), Baur, Lilo, 1958- (Actor), Smiley, Michael, 1963- (Actor), Eden, Harry, 1990- (Actor), Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	English
Published:	[United States] : BBC Video : 2 Entertain ; [2009]
Edition:	Special ed.
Subjects:	Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Television adaptations. Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870. Orphans > England > Drama. Inheritance and succession > England > Drama. Actions and defenses > England > Drama. Procedure (Law) > England > Drama. Murder > Investigation > England > Drama. Actions and defenses. Inheritance and succession. Murder > Investigation. Orphans. Procedure (Law) England. Fiction television programs. Television mini-series. Television adaptations. Television melodramas. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Television programs > Great Britain. Television programs > United States. Drama.
Online Access:	Show's BBC Web site

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Summary:	Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light after the murder of a strange man. Twines through the legal system to heartbreaking domestic drama to a murder investigation to near-Gothic horror.
Item Description:	Based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Special features: Interviews with Gillian Anderson, Denis Lawson and Charles Dance; commentaries with writer Andrew Davies, producer Nigel Stafford-Clark and directors Justin Chadwick and Susanna White; photo gallery. Originally broadcast on BBC television in 2005. Videorecording.
Physical Description:	3 videodiscs (approximately 465 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD ; region 1, NTSC ; widescreen (16:9 enhanced) ; Dolby Digital stereo. ; DVD-9.
Production Credits:	Ep. 1-7, 9 directed by Justin Chadwick; ep. 8, 10-15 directed by Susannah White.
ISBN:	1419880861 9781419880865