Basic Info

First Air: May 11, 2002

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Last Episode

Name: Terror to the End

Season: 1, Episode: 3

Air Date: 2002-05-25

Runtime: 59 min

Dickens creates his greatest works in the last decade of his life. But success comes at a price as he embarks on a complex double life.

Dickens

2002 1 seasons 3 episodes

Overview

Dickens is a 2002 three-part docudrama presented by Peter Ackroyd, on whose biography of Dickens it was based. An unorthodox style is taken: actors play various individuals in Dickens' life (as well as Dickens himself), interviewed as if appearing in a contemporary documentary. Their words are from actual letters and journals of the individuals involved, and serve to illuminate the hardships and successes in Dickens' life, and the way his experiences found their way into his works.