Our Mutual Friend
“Love in a city where class governs all”
1998 · 1 season · 4 episodes · Drama
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.
Seasons
1 season · 4 episodes- 1
Episode 1
9 Mar 1998 1h 30m
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.
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Episode 2
16 Mar 1998 1h 30m
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.
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Episode 3
23 Mar 1998 1h 30m
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.
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Episode 4
30 Mar 1998 1h 30m
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.
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' RiderhoodReviews 0
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