Our Mutual Friend

1958 - 1959

Episode 1

7th November 1958

Episode 1

A waterman, rowing with his daughter on the Thames in search of plunder, discovers the body of a man who had been brutally assaulted before being drowned. Who is the man?

Episode 2

14th November 1958

Episode 2

Society takes a hand and Gaffer Hexam, the waterman who discovered the body, is suspected of murder.

Episode 3

21st November 1958

Episode 3

Noddy Boffin, the ‘Golden Dustman', engages a secretary while the Wilfers decide to take a lodger and Bella is adopted.

Episode 4

28th November 1958

Episode 4

Roger ‘Rogue' Riderhood claims a reward for information and Silas Wegg proposes a friendly move.

Episode 5

5th December 1958

Episode 5

Charley Hexam takes a brother's interest in Lizzie; Bella takes her father, the ‘cherub', out to dinner.

Episode 6

12th December 1958

Episode 6

Riderhood meets a stranger; Lizzie receives a proposal; and a terrified Betty Higden runs away.

Episode 7

19th December 1958

Episode 7

The Wilfers celebrate their wedding anniversary as Noddy shows another side to his character.

Episode 8

26th December 1958

Episode 8

Noddy becomes a partner in the friendly move and learns that Wegg has found an important document.

Episode 9

2nd January 1959

Episode 9

Bella expresses indignation while Riderhood and Headstone come to an agreement.

Episode 10

9th January 1959

Episode 10

Noddy's nose is to be laid on the grindstone; Bella and her father keep an appointment; and Eugene Wrayburn comes to grief.

Episode 11

16th January 1959

Episode 11

Mr Fledgeby gets his just desserts. Rokesmith meets Mortimer Lightwood and is accused of the murder of John Harmon.

Episode 12

23rd January 1959

Episode 12

Boffin becomes himself while Riderhood and Headstone meet for the last time, with tragic results.

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Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in 1860s London.

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Paul Daneman

John Harmon/'John Rokesmith'

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Charles Dickens

Novel

Freda Lingstrom

Adaptation

Douglas Allen

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