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Little Dorrit

★ 8.1 12K votes 2008–2008 1 season · 14 episodes Ended BBC One
Class divideWealth, poverty and the gulf between them.This show: 9/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 9/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 8/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 8/10Secrets & liesHidden truths straining every relationship.This show: 8/10Event miniseriesPrestige limited television built as an event.This show: 7/10Family sagaBonds and fractures across generations of one family.This show: 7/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Matthew MacfadyenClaire FoyTom CourtenayJudy ParfittEmma PiersonAlun Armstrong
Starring
Matthew MacfadyenClaire FoyTom CourtenayJudy ParfittEmma PiersonAlun Armstrong
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
075150225300

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About

"Dickens' London as a slow-burning moral maze"

Adapted from Dickens, this traces Amy Dorrit, a young woman raised inside a debtors' prison where her father has languished for years, and her tangled connection to a returning merchant's son whose family concealed a dark secret. It unfolds as a sprawling Victorian tapestry of debt, class, and buried guilt, told in short, serialized bursts that build steadily rather than rushing. The tone is warm at its center but surrounded by satire and menace, carried by a strong ensemble and Dickens' eye for both cruelty and kindness in a rigid society.

Watch it for

the richly drawn ensemble cast turning a sprawling Dickens plot into something intimate and moving.

Maybe skip if

you want a brisk story rather than a patient, multi-thread costume drama.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Series 12008
8.03K148h
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode #1.17.7
27260 min
▶2Episode #1.27.8
23030 min
▶3Episode #1.37.9
21930 min
▶4Episode #1.48.1
21130 min
▶5Episode #1.57.9
20830 min
▶6Episode #1.67.9
20030 min
▶7Episode #1.78.1
19530 min
▶8Episode #1.88.1
19330 min
▶9Episode #1.98.0
19230 min
▶10Episode #1.107.9
18930 min
▶11Episode #1.117.9
18730 min
▶12Episode #1.128.0
18930 min
▶13Episode #1.138.3
18930 min
▶14Episode #1.148.4
20160 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Matthew Macfadyen Arthur Clennam
Claire Foy Amy Dorrit
Tom Courtenay Mr. Dorrit
Judy Parfitt Mrs. Clennam
Emma Pierson Fanny Dorrit, Fanny Sparkler
Alun Armstrong Flintwinch, Ephraim Flintwinch, Jeremiah Flintwinch
Eddie Marsan Pancks
Jason Thorpe Cavalletto
Sebastian Armesto Edmund Sparkler, Sparkler
Andy Serkis Rigaud

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