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Oliver Twist 

| Drama | TV Mini-Series (1999– )
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An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

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 Mrs Bedwin (4 episodes, 1999)
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 Monks (4 episodes, 1999)
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 Mr Brownlow (4 episodes, 1999)
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 Elizabeth Leeford (4 episodes, 1999)
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 Mrs. Mann (4 episodes, 1999)
David Ross ...
 Mr Bumble (4 episodes, 1999)
Sam Smith ...
 Oliver Twist (3 episodes, 1999)
John Grillo ...
 Mr Grimwig (3 episodes, 1999)
Charlotte Le Moignan ...
 Young Rose Fleming (3 episodes, 1999)
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 Nancy (3 episodes, 1999)
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 Fagin (3 episodes, 1999)
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 Bill Sikes (3 episodes, 1999)
Alex Crowley ...
 Artful Dodger (3 episodes, 1999)
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 Rose Fleming (3 episodes, 1999)
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 Bet (3 episodes, 1999)
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 Charley Bates (3 episodes, 1999)
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 Sally (2 episodes, 1999)
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 Homely Maid (2 episodes, 1999)
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 Mr. Fleming (2 episodes, 1999)
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 Giles (2 episodes, 1999)
Morgan Jones ...
 Brittles (2 episodes, 1999)
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 Agnes Fleming (2 episodes, 1999)
David Bark-Jones ...
 Dr. Losberne (2 episodes, 1999)
Laura Grace Cockroft ...
 Chertsey Maid (2 episodes, 1999)
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 Edwin Leeford (2 episodes, 1999)
Rosalind March ...
 Mrs. Corney (2 episodes, 1999)
Iain Robertson ...
 Woodcroft (2 episodes, 1999)
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 Mr. Sowerberry (2 episodes, 1999)
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 Blacksmith Bignall (2 episodes, 1999)
Alan Pentony ...
 Pedlar (2 episodes, 1999)
Hilary Sesta ...
 Martha, Female Pauper (2 episodes, 1999)
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Based on Charles Dickens' novel, this adaptation traces the childhood of an orphan whose mother dies giving birth to him in an English work-house in the 1820s. Little Oliver Twist, already abused, starved and overworked, is apprenticed to an undertaker and runs away to London after being bullied by an older apprentice. There, he is taken in by Fagin, a fence and thief-trainer, and his gang of pickpockets. He is befriended by Nancy, a good-hearted prostitute, and meets her lover, the brutal housebreaker Bill Sikes. But attempts by the gang to discredit him result in his being taken in by Mr. Brownlow, a wealthy and charitable man, who proves the catalyst for Oliver's discovery of his background and identity. Here Alan Bleasdale's dramatisation differs from Dickens' novel, in that Oliver does not fall into Brownlow's hands by coincidence, and we already know his back story: he's the child of a young woman named Agnes Fleming and her married lover, Edwin Leeford, who dies while on a trip... Written by G.M. Baxter

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The very flowery wording in the episode titles is based on the language which Charles Dickens used for the chapter titles in his original novel "Oliver Twist". See more »

Quotes

Nancy: We could go to France, Bill!
Bill Sikes: What would I wanna go to France for? I don't like the French.
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Version of Oliver & Company (1988) See more »

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Fantasia for Piano 4 Hands in F Minor
Music by Franz Schubert
Played onscreen by Michael Kitchen
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I Want Some More
27 February 2004 | by (Orlando, Florida, USA) – See all my reviews

This adaptation of Oliver Twist surpasses David Lean's spectacular version.

Oliver Twist is dark, brutal, and gritty, and it truly depicts the The Slums Of London, the Filthly Slums as Dickens' himself experienced it.

Alan Bleasdale penned the screenplay, and Oliver Twist was apparantly a labour of love for him. He had envisioned making Oliver Twist for his whole life, and finally sat down in 1997 to actualise his Twistian visions.

The first installment is Bleasedale's own creation; the 2nd & 3rd are the core of Oliver's hard life. The violence depicted in the series is harsh - this is not the same Masterpiece Theatre that we grew up with. The Artful Dodger is a cruel rogue in this one. Nancy is a whipping post. Sikes is woman-beater. Mr. Bumble is a nasty gold-digger. Oliver is physically abused, starved, and even walled up briefly.

This version features outstanding performances by Michael Kitchen, Robert Lindsay, Andy Serkis, Marc Warren, and Sam Smith, the young boy who plays Oliver. When Smith says, "I want some more", you get the chills.

Serkis & Marc Warren give exemplory, BAFTA-worthy performances as their characters. Warren reaps the benefits of Bleasedale's writings. Edward Leeford/Monks was a shady character in the novel; Bleasedale developed Monks, giving him a history, and Warren externalizes that history with shocking, authentic realism.

Thank you Alan Bleasedale, thank you PBS/BBC.

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