Bleak House was a novel by Charles Dickens. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire) It was first published in London, 1853, by Bradbury & Evans. (GAME: The Lonely Assassins [+]Amelia Chung, Priya Kulasagaran, Rebecca Hee and Gavin Collinson, Maze Theory (2021).)
It was one of Edmund Trevithick's favourites; he loved the way Dickens "drew him into that murky, fog-bound world." (PROSE: Nightshade) In the course of the plot, one of the characters — aptly named "Krook" — spontaneously combusted in his room, "supposedly as a celestial judgement on his sins." (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)
On Christmas Eve 1869, the Ninth Doctor compared the morgue of Gabriel Sneed's mortuary to the setting of the novel. (TV: The Unquiet Dead)
Ace found a copy of Bleak House in the TARDIS library. The Seventh Doctor advised her to put it in the architecture section. (AUDIO: The Genocide Machine)
In 2018 the Tenth Doctor and Heather McCrimmon saw Bleak House as a song and dance spectacular on Broadway, New York City. Wayne Rooney performed in the musical. The Doctor didn't expect much of it, but after seeing the show he thought it was brilliant. (COMIC: The Greed of the Gavulav)
Behind the Scenes
- The 1959 miniseries starred Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone, William Mervyn as Kenge, Timothy Bateson as William Guppy, Jerome Willis as Allan Woodcourt, as Leslie French as Mr. Snagsby and Aubrey Woods as Tony Jobling.
- The 1985 miniseries starred T. P. McKenna as Harold Skimpole, Diana Rigg as Lady Dedlock, Sylvia Coleridge as Miss Flite, Graham Crowden as Lord Chancellor, Frank Windsor as Gridley, Donald Sumpter as Nemo, Colin Jeavons as Vholes, Anne Reid as Mrs. Bagnet and George Sewell as Ironmaster Rouncewell.
- The 2005 miniseries starred Carey Mulligan as Ada Clare, Pauline Collins as Miss Flite, Tom Georgeson as Clamb, Burn Gorman as William Guppy, Sheila Hancock as Mrs. Guppy, Anne Reid as Mrs Rouncewell, Phil Davis as Smallweed, Liza Tarbuck as Mrs Jellyby, Robert Pugh as Mr Chadband, Catherine Tate as Mrs. Chadband, Dermot Crowley as Mr. Vholes and Roberta Taylor as Mrs. Pardiggle.
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