David Copperfield
1974
📺 1 Season
🎬 6 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 50 min/episode
Drama
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
A co-production with Time-Life Television Productions, the miniseries was first broadcast on BBC 1 in weekly parts from 1 December 1974 to 5 January 1975. It is the earliest BBC adaptation to exist in its entirety; the 1956 adaptation is completely lost, whilst only four of the 1966 adaptation's eight episodes are known to exist.
Seasons
Season 1
Young David Copperfield is born to his recently widowed mother Clara and almost immediately disowned by his only living relative, Betsey Trotwood, who was expecting a girl. David has an enjoyable life with his mother and their cook-servant, Clara Peggotty. When he is seven, however, he is sent off with Peggotty to visit her family at the seaside and returns that his mother has remarried, to the cruel Edward Murdstone.
Crew
Producer
John McRae, Don Coney
Network
BBC One
Production
BBC, Time-Life Television Productions
Keywords
child abusechild labourbased on novel or bookminiseriestv mini series