The Dorrits are a family whose life revolves around the Marshalsea, a debtor's prison. Amy Dorrit's kind nature brings the family into contact with a wide swath of English society, from the poorest to the richest, and back again.
This mini-series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her boss's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
Aired: Oct 26, 2008 London; the 1820s. Amy Dorrit was born in the Marshalsea, a debtors' prison, ...
Aired: Oct 30, 2008 Arthur again visits Amy at the prison, where he meets her friend Maggy, a gir...
Aired: Nov 5, 2008 Arthur moves into lodgings and is visited by Amy, along with her protégée Mag...
Aired: Nov 6, 2008 John Chivery is heart-broken when Amy rejects his marriage proposal, telling ...
Aired: Nov 12, 2008 Amy accompanies Fanny on a visit to the rich and haughty Mrs. Merdle, mother ...
Aired: Nov 13, 2008 Arthur proposes to Pet, who turns him down, adding that that morning she had ...
Aired: Nov 19, 2008 The day dawns when Pet Meagles marries her Henry with Arthur as best man. Hen...
Aired: Nov 20, 2008 The newly-rich Dorrits leave the Marshalsea and Amy is appalled at how coldly...
Aired: Nov 26, 2008 The Grand Tour moves on to Venice, where the Dorrits encounter Mrs. Merdle an...
Aired: Nov 27, 2008 In Venice Fanny continues to cold-shoulder Edmund and spar with his mother, w...
Aired: Dec 3, 2008 Pa and Ma Meagles arrive in Venice as Pet gives birth to a son, assisted by h...
Aired: Dec 4, 2008 The Sparklers return to London with Mr. Dorrit, who is thrilled to be seen as...
Aired: Dec 10, 2008 After Mrs. General rejects his proposal of marriage, subsequently giving her ...
Aired: Dec 11, 2008 Merdle's suicide note reveals that he was a swindler, robbing his investors a...
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