Oliver Twist - Season 1 Episode 1
The moment where Oliver Twist asks for more gruel is right up there with Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" line. You know it's coming, you wait, you get ready because it's on its way and then, bam! it's arrived: "Please sir, I want some more". Newcomer William Miller, as Oliver, wisely plays it straight as he holds out his bowl and blinks his sweet saucer eyes at wicked workhouse boss Mr Bumble (Gregor Fisher) in Sarah Phelps's roistering dramatisation of the Dickens story.
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: BBC One
- Keyword: based on novel or book, victorian england, thief, miniseries, orphan, period drama, woman director, costume drama
- Cast: Gregor Fisher, Edward Fox, Tom Hardy, Timothy Spall, Sophie Okonedo, Julian Rhind-Tutt
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