All 20 episodes of the bbc drama set in the combined fictional worlds of charles dickens' novels. Taking place in victorian london, the series follows some of dickens' iconic characters including inspector bucket stephen rea, who is investigating the murder of jacob marley peter firth and suspects sikes mark stanley and fagin anton lesser. Meanwhile, amelia havisham tuppence middleton inherits her father's estate and searches for love and the artful dodger wilson radjou pujalte continues his thieving ways. Review all 20 episodes of the original drama inspired by the the works of charles dickens ingeniously conceived, handsomely crafted? The telegraph fast paced action with thrilling twists and turns? Daily mirror brilliantly reimagined dickens? Independent featuring charles dickens' most iconic characters as their paths cross in victorian london. Dickensian is a world of love, romance and intrigue with secrets lurking round every corner and a murder story at its heart. Discover a world where miss havisham may still find love, scrooge can meet fagin and jacob marley's murderer is being hunted down by inspector bucket, one of fiction's first detectives. You don't have to know dickens to love these characters and the action packed stories they feature in. With an all star cast including stephen rea, pauline collins, caroline quentin, omid djalili, peter firth and tuppence middleton, dickensian is period drama as we've never seen it before extras creating the world of dickensian costume and make up exploring the characters running time 600 minutes region region 2 subtitles english release date 29 feb. 2016