![]() I don’t doubt Jordan’s understanding of Dickens and his characters: he’s probably the most Dickensian television writer there is. It’s clever, certainly, and must have been a labour of love, unpicking all these people from their works, weaving them into something else. The set is beautiful, and there are showy Dickensian performances from a starry cast. It’s not going to be easy to find out whodunnit though as Scrooge says, Bucket’s problem “will not be discovering who hated Jacob Marley enough to kill him, but rather finding someone who didn’t”. Inspector Bucket’s playing Miss Marple, with some forensic help from Mr Venus the taxidermist (CSI 19th-century London). Meets Agatha Christie, too, because here’s another body – Marley’s this time – coshed over the head and left lying in the snow. It’s like EastEnders meets A Christmas Carol meets Great Expectations meets Oliver Twist meets Bleak House meets Our Mutual Friend, and I’ve certainly missed some out. Also the Bumbles, Mr and Mrs Compeyson shows up, handsome and criminal in one house – the Bleak one – the Barbary family live Mr Pickwick’s down the Queen Vi … I mean the Three Cripples. So many Dickens characters, many more than the above. Tony Jordan has taken a whole bunch of Dickens characters from their novels and put them into something else. Retrieved 23 March 2017.What the Dickens? Dickensian (BBC1, Saturday), that’s what.
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