Masterpiece Theatre presents a collection of star-studded BBC mini-series, adapting three of Charles Dickens's best-loved novels. DAVID COPPERFIELD (1999) follows a plucky young scamp's hellish journey from public school to factory job and into adulthood as a mature writer in... [More]

Masterpiece Theatre presents a collection of star-studded BBC mini-series, adapting three of Charles Dickens's best-loved novels. DAVID COPPERFIELD (1999) follows a plucky young scamp's hellish journey from public school to factory job and into adulthood as a mature writer in 19th-century industrial London. Dicken's classic tale of orphan struggle is brought to life in OLIVER TWIST (1999), as the eponymous hero shuffles from the bowels of a horrid workhouse to an even more abusive circumstance as an undertaker's apprentice and finally into the clutches of master thief Fagin. And GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1999) tells the story of Pip, a young boy who endures a difficult childhood to emerge as a young man full of ambition and provided for by a mysterious benefactor who wishes to turn him into a gentleman. These finely tuned adaptations boast impeccable period-piece production design and top British actors Charlotte Rampling, Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, and HARRY POTTER's Daniel Radcliffe. [Less]