Season 1
6.5/1022 votesEpisode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/10/1985
Young Esther Summerson, brought up as an orphan, is summoned to London by her guardian's solicitors. She is to meet the Wards of Court in Jarndyce and Jarndyce court case over a will, and become acquainted with her guardian John Jarndyce for the first time.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft
6.4/1018 votesEpisode 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/17/1985
Esther is entrusted with the running of Bleak House.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft
6.5/1017 votesEpisode 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/24/1985
Lady Dedlock ceases the case, Esther refuses an offer of marriage and Miss Flite collapses after a court hearing.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft
6.3/1017 votesEpisode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/1/1985
Lady Dedlock persuades Jo, a young crossing sweeper, to show her the haunts of the late Captain Hawdon. Richard's intended engagement to Ada perturbs Jarndyce, who considers it hasty, and they argue.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft
6.5/1015 votesEpisode 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/8/1985
Smallweed presses George for documents in Captain Hawdon's handwriting, while Jo is questioned about the 'Lady' Tulkinghorn showed around London.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft
6.2/1015 votesEpisode 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/15/1985
Esther becomes ill with smallpox, while Smallweed inherits Krook's property.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft
6.4/1015 votesEpisode 7
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/22/1985
Esther, severely scarred, has recovered from smallpox. She meets Lady Dedlock, who confesses that she is her mother. Jo has been found desperately ill and living rough, but dies soon afterwards. The lawyer Tulkinghorn, has been murdered in his rooms.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft
6.2/1014 votesEpisode 8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/29/1985
Richard, now married to Ada, continues the legal cause of Jarndyce.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft, Charles Dickens