The Pickwick Papers (TV series)

The Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaptation of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, first broadcast in 1985. It starred Nigel Stock, Alan Parnaby Clive Swift and Patrick Malahide, with narration spoken by Ray Brooks.

Central characters

• Nigel Stock as Samuel Pickwick – the protagonist and founder of the Pickwick Club.
• Jeremy Nicholas as Mr. Nathaniel Winkle – travelling companion and friend of Pickwick's; a reluctant sportsman
• Alan Parnaby as Mr. Augustus Snodgrass – another companion and friend; an amiable poet.
• Clive Swift as Mr. Tracy Tupman – another friend; a very flirtatious man
• Phil Daniels as Sam Weller – Mr. Pickwick's valet
• Howard Lang as Tony Weller – Sam's father; does not really know if his name is written as Veller or Weller
• Patrick Malahide as Mr. Alfred Jingle – a strolling player, and a charlatan
• Colin Douglas as Mr. Wardle – friend of Pickwick's, a widower with two daughters
• Milton Johns as Mr. Perker – Pickwick's lawyer
• Pip Donaghy as Job Trotter – Jingle's servant
• Jo Kendall as Mrs. Bardell – Pickwick's landlady

Other characters

• Dione Inman – Isabella Wardle
• Valerie Whittington – Emily Wardle
• Ned Williams – Master Bardell
• David Nunn – Joe (Fat Boy)
• Patience Collier – Old Mrs. Wardle
• Freda Dowie – Rachel Wardle
• Hugh Ross – Jackson
• Tamsin Heatley – Mary
• Sarah Finch – Arabella Allen
• Shirley Cain – Miss Witherfield
• Dallas Cavell – Roker
• Gerald James – Dr. Slammer
• John Patrick – Lt. Tappleton
• Russell Denton – Waiter – Bull Inn
• Anthony Roye – Dodson
• Kenneth Waller – Fogg
• Alan Mason – Dying prisoner
• Paddy Ward – Wardle Manservant
• John Woodnutt – Sergeant Snubbin
• Michael Ripper – Phunkey
• Nicholas Jeune – Trundle
• June Ellis – Cook
• Richard Henry – Lowten
• David Beckett – Benjamin Allen
• Deddie Davies – Mrs. Cluppins
• Stephen Finlay – Bob Sawyer
• George Little – Peter Magnus

External links

• The Pickwick Papers at BBC Programmes
  
• The Pickwick Papers at the Internet Movie Database

Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers (1836)
Characters	Samuel Pickwick Sam Weller Alfred Jingle Nathaniel Winkle Mr Wardle
Places	Goswell Street Dingley Dell Bath Ipswich Fleet Prison Eatanswill
Short Stories	"The Stroller's Tale" "The Convict's Return" "A Madman's Manuscript" "The Bagman's Story" "The Parish Clerk, A Tale of True Love" "The Old Man's Tale About the Queer Client" "The Story of the Goblins who Stole a Sexton" "The True Legend of Prince Bladud" "The Story of the Bagman's Uncle"
Adaptations	1913 film 1921 film 1952 film 1963 musical 1969 TV movie 1985 TV series 1985 film
Other	"If I Ruled the World" George and Vulture