Oliver Twist (TV mini-series 1999)

Cast

Series cast summary:
	David Ross	...	Mr Bumble (4 episodes, 1999)
	Julie Walters	...	Mrs. Mann (4 episodes, 1999)
	Michael Kitchen	...	Mr Brownlow (4 episodes, 1999)
	Annette Crosbie	...	Mrs Bedwin (4 episodes, 1999)
	Lindsay Duncan	...	Elizabeth Leeford (4 episodes, 1999)
	Marc Warren	...	Monks (4 episodes, 1999)
	Sam Smith	...	Oliver Twist (3 episodes, 1999)
	Keira Knightley	...	Rose Fleming (3 episodes, 1999)
	Robert Lindsay	...	Fagin (3 episodes, 1999)
	Alex Crowley	...	Artful Dodger (3 episodes, 1999)
	Andy Serkis	...	Bill Sikes (3 episodes, 1999)
	Emily Woof	...	Nancy (3 episodes, 1999)
	Isla Fisher	...	Bet (3 episodes, 1999)
	John Grillo	...	Mr Grimwig (3 episodes, 1999)
	Charlotte Le Moignan	...	Young Rose Fleming (3 episodes, 1999)
	Roland Manookian	...	Charley Bates (3 episodes, 1999)
	Roger Lloyd-Pack	...	Mr Sowerberry (2 episodes, 1999)
	Tim Dutton	...	Edwin Leeford (2 episodes, 1999)
	Alun Armstrong	...	Mr Fleming (2 episodes, 1999)
	David Bark-Jones	...	Dr. Losberne (2 episodes, 1999)
	Laura Grace Cockroft	...	Chertsey Maid (2 episodes, 1999)
	Sarah Flind	...	Homely Maid (2 episodes, 1999)
	Morgan Jones	...	Brittles (2 episodes, 1999)
	Sam Kelly	...	Giles (2 episodes, 1999)
	Calum MacPherson	...	Blacksmith Bignall (2 episodes, 1999)
	Rosalind March	...	Mrs Corney (2 episodes, 1999)
	Sophia Myles	...	Agnes Fleming (2 episodes, 1999)
	Alan Pentony	...	Pedlar (2 episodes, 1999)
	Iain Robertson	...	Woodcroft (2 episodes, 1999)
	Hilary Sesta	...	Martha, Female Pauper (2 episodes, 1999)
	Liz Smith	...	Sally (2 episodes, 1999)

Storyline

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... Written by G.M. Baxter  

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