

1998–1998 · BBC Two · Ended
Our Mutual Friend is a British television serial broadcast in 1998 and adapted from Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend. Having made his fortune from London's rubbish, a rich misanthropic miser dies - estranged from all except his faithful employees Mr and Mrs Boffin. By his will, his fortune goes to his estranged son John Harmon, who is to return from where he has settled abroad (putatively in South Africa, though this is never stated specifically) to claim it, on condition that he marries a woman he has never met, Miss Bella Wilfer. The implementation of the Will is in the charge of the solicitor, Mortimer Lightwood, who has no other practice...
Monday at 21:30 (Europe/London)
This series has ended.
Last aired
S01E04 · Part 4
1998-03-30
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Part 1
1998-03-09 · 90 min
Part 2
1998-03-16 · 90 min
Part 3
1998-03-23 · 90 min
Part 4
1998-03-30 · 90 min
Steven Mackintosh
John Harmon
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