

1994–1994 · BBC One · Ended
This extraordinary production captures the soot and smoke that blot out the sun in dank, industry-choked Coketown. Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion.
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Last aired
S01E04 · Episode 4
1994-05-20
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Episode 1
1994-04-29 · 25 min
Episode 2
1994-05-06 · 25 min
Episode 3
1994-05-13 · 25 min
Episode 4
1994-05-20 · 25 min
Christien Anholt
Thomas (Tom) Gradgrind, Junior
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