Oliver Twist

This 2000 television adaptation of Charles Dickens' Victorian classic was originally released as a six-hour, three-part miniseries on PBS. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale, this version of Oliver Twist gives viewers a new look at an old story, waiting 90 minutes to even introduce its eponymous hero (played ...more

Literature's most famous orphan wanders through an amended plot in this 1999 television production of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel, -Oliver Twist. Part one dares to go where no other screen adaptation of the book has gone before: back to a time before the novel starts, allowing the script to tell in detail the story of Oliver's mother (Sophia Myles). She is a beautiful woman of high birth who becomes pregnant out of wedlock, bears Oliver in a workhouse, then dies. Scriptwriter Alan Bleasdale ...more