Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend Love in a city where class governs all

Epic Charles Dickens tale of passion, greed and betrayal. Lizzie and her father scrape a living on the banks of the Thames until one day they recover a body that links them with another world.

Drama

Our Mutual Friend Love in a city where class governs all

Epic Charles Dickens tale of passion, greed and betrayal. Lizzie and her father scrape a living on the banks of the Thames until one day they recover a body that links them with another world.

Drama

Created By
First Aired on: Mar 09, 1998
Popularity: 11.1384: 16 votes
Networks: (GB)
Status: Ended: Show Ended

Seasons & episodes

Total 1 seasons, 4 episodes

Miniseries

Aired 27 years ago

4 Episodes

Episode 1Episode 190 min
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.
Episode 2Episode 290 min
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.
Episode 3Episode 390 min
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.
Episode 4Episode 490 min
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.