The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

1979
★★★☆☆ 6.0/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 9 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
Drama
The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Julian Amyes, and adapted by William Trevor. A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

Seasons

Season 1
1979 • 9 Episodes
The peaceful lives of Little Nell Trent and her beloved grandfather are harried by the odious, misshapen moneylender Daniel Quilp, who plans to marry Nell when she is older.

Cast

Sebastian Shaw
Sebastian Shaw
Grandfather
Natalie Ogle
Natalie Ogle
Nell Trent
Trevor Peacock
Trevor Peacock
Daniel Quilp
Granville Saxton
Granville Saxton
Dick Swiveller

Crew

Producer
Barry Letts

Network

BBC One

Keywords

london, englandbased on novel or bookvictorian englandorphanhunchbackmoneylender19th centurygambling addictiongrandfather granddaughter relationship