Our Mutual Friend (1998 TV serial)

Not to be confused with Mutual Friends, which also starred Keeley Hawes..

1998 British TV series or programme

Our Mutual Friend

Based on	Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Written by	Sandy Welch
Directed by	Julian Farino
Starring	Paul McGann Steven Mackintosh Keeley Hawes Anna Friel Peter Vaughan David Morrissey Dominic Mafham
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Running time	360 min.
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	9 March (1998年03月09日) – 30 March 1998 (1998年03月30日)

Our Mutual Friend is a British television serial broadcast in 1998 and adapted from Charles Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865).

Cast

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Anna Friel as Bella Wilfer
Steven Mackintosh as John Harmon
Keeley Hawes as Lizzie Hexam
Paul McGann as Eugene Wrayburn
Peter Vaughan as Mr. Boffin
David Morrissey as Bradley Headstone
Dominic Mafham as Mortimer Lightwood
David Bradley as Rogue Riderhood
Kenneth Cranham as Silas Wegg
Timothy Spall as Mr. Venus
Pam Ferris as Mrs. Boffin
Katy Murphy as Jenny Wren
Doon Mackichan as Sophronia Lammle
Anthony Calf as Alfred Lammle
Michael Culkin as Mr. Veneering
Martin Hancock as Sloppy
Edna Doré as Betty Higden
Margaret Tyzack as Lady Tippins
Roger Frost as police inspector
David Schofield as Gaffer Hexam
Paul Bailey as Charley Hexam
Peter Wright as Mr. Wilfer
Heather Tobias as Mrs. Wilfer
Catriona Yuill as Lavinia Wilfer

Production

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The Kingswear Castle paddlesteamer was used for the drama in the episode when Bella Wilfer and the Boffins go on a family day out. The scene was shot on the River Medway next to the boat's then moorings in The Historic Dockyard Chatham. In 2013 the ship returned to use on the River Dart in Devon. The back streets of the workhouse were filmed in The Historic Dockyard Chatham.^[1]