History Series / Dickensian

** Scrooge [[spoiler: hears Marley's ghost long before Christmas]].

** Scrooge [[spoiler: hears from Marley's ghost long before Christmas]].

* ForegoneConclusion: If you've read (or even heard of) most of the books, you know what will eventually happen. It might happen in unexpected ways though, we always knew Jacob Marley died on Christmas Eve, we didn't know he was murdered.
** Surprisingly averted in the first episode however with Little Nell surviving. [[spoiler: Although to be fair, she is still at the curiosity shop, and her grandfather is currently indebted to Marley, not Daniel Quilp]].

** Scrooge [[spoiler: is visited by Marley's ghost, long before Christmas]].

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Little Nell.

* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: Jacob Marley. Scrooge warns Bucket that the difficulty will be finding someone who ''didn't'' want him dead.

** Unless she turns out to be known by another name, Fanny Biggetywitch seems to be entirely original.
*** There is some suggestion that she is Fanny Dorritt, who has since married, though WordOfGod says otherwise.
*** It is also possible she is based on Mrs. Prig, Mrs. Gamp's fellow nurse and drinking companion in ''Martin Chuzzlewit''.

* DamnedByFaintPraise: At dinner with the Bumbles, Mr Grabgrind describes everything with a variant of "not unpleasant", which Mr Bumble rather desperately interprets as great praise.
* DisposableSexWorker: When Nancy is questioned about Marley's murder she points out that there would be no police investigation if ''she'' were the victim and that the police do nothing when other prostitutes are regularly found murdered.

** Surprisingly averted in the first episode however with Little Nell surviving.

* JerkassWoobie: Yes, Arthur's a spoiled entitled little weasel but the sheer amount of emotional [[spoiler: and physical]] abuse Compeyson puts him through, driving him into debt and alcoholism, combined with the belief that his father hated him, [[spoiler: and finally Amelia's total rejection of him after his HeelFaceTurn]] can cause him to be seen this way.

* MoralEventHorizon: Though Compeyson had already done several bad things by this point, him [[spoiler: dumping Jip the dog in the river]] officially made him the most hated character of the series.
** Similarly, Frances not telling Honoria that [[spoiler: her daughter survived being born prematurely]], especially after an episode that seemed dedicated to making her almost sympathetic.

* AttemptedRape: Jacob Marley on [[spoiler: Emily Cratchit]] who kills him in self defence.

Dickensian is a 2015 drama on TheBBC based on the conceit that all Creator/CharlesDickens's characters lived in the same area of London at around the same time, which is at some point before the novels.

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Inspector Bucket hates that he can't do anything about [[spoiler: young children being shipped off to coal mines]]. He chooses Lawful, but he's not happy about it. He later chooses Good when [[spoiler: he discovers Emily Cratchit killed Jacob Marley, and decides that he'd rather an unrepentant murderer of others hang for it that a woman acting in desperation and self defence]].

* CompositeCharacter: The ending rather implys that, in this version, Esther from ''Literature/BleakHouse'' and Estella from ''Literature/GreatExpectations'' are the same person.

*** There is some suggestion that she is Fanny Dorritt, who has since married.

* WhoMurderedTheAsshole: Jacob Marley. Scrooge warns Bucket that the difficulty will be finding someone who ''didn't'' want him dead.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Little Nell (at least so far...)

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Inspector Bucket hates that he can't do anything about [[spoiler: young children being shipped off to coal mines]]. He chooses Lawful, but he's not happy about it. He later chooses Good when [[spoiler: he discovers Emily Cratchett killed Jacon Marley, and decides that he'd rather an unrepentant murderer of others hang for it that a woman acting in desperation and self defence]].
* UnseenCharacter: Mrs Bucket, who

* NoNameGiven: The messenger boy is only listed in the cast list as "Boy". Likewise Little Nell's grandfather, who was never named in [[Literature/TheOldCuriosityShop the book]] either.

* SecretOtherFamily: Episode 12 introduces [[spoiler: Mrs Compeyson, ]]

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: Inspector Bucket hates that he can't do anything about [[spoiler: young children being shipped off to coal mines]]. He chooses Lawful, but he's not happy about it.

* DisposableSexWorker: When Nancy is questioned about Marley's murder she points out that there would be no police investigation if ''she'' were the victim.

* StayInTheKitchen: This is roughly what Arthur Havisham believes his sister should do. Although, given her class, it's more Stay in the Drawing Room.

* LysistrataGambit: A variant is used by Mrs Bumble; rather than witholding sex, she promises Mr Bumble he can have finally some if he behaves himself at a dinner party. Then she reneges on it.

* RaceLift: The Artful Dodger is black.

* LysistrataGambit: A variant is used by Mrs Bumble; rather than witholding sex, she promises Mr Bumble he can have finally some if he behaves himself at a dinner party. Then she reneges on it.

Created and co-written by former ''Series/EastEnders'' writer Tony Jordan, it takes a SoapOpera approach of multiple plot strands interacting, of which the main ones are the investigation of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Jacob Marley]]'s murder by [[Literature/BleakHouse Inspector Bucket]] and [[Literature/GreatExpectations Merriweather Compeyson's seduction of Amelia Havisham]]. Other major characters include [[Literature/AChristmasCarol the Cratchetts]], [[Literature/BleakHouse the Barbarys]], and [[Literature/OliverTwist Fagin's gang]]. A full character guide can be found [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1BV0vH2JsWR4hSsqdPpmwRk/cast-and-characters here]].

* HappilyMarried: Bob and Emily Cratchet.

* RichSuitorPoorSuitor: Honoria Barbary is in love with the poor soldier Captain Hawdon, but her sister disapproves and would rather she married the rich and respectable Sir Leicester Declock.

Written by former ''Series/EastEnders'' writer Tony Jorsan, it takes a SoapOpera approach of multiple plot strands interacting, of which the main ones are the investigation of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Jacob Marley]]'s murder by [[Literature/BleakHouse Inspector Bucket]] and [[Literature/GreatExpectations Merriweather Compeyson's seduction of Amelia Havisham]]. Other major characters include [[Literature/AChristmasCarol the Cratchetts]], [[Literature/BleakHouse the Barbarys]], and [[Literature/OliverTwist Fagin's gang]]. A full character guide can be found [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1BV0vH2JsWR4hSsqdPpmwRk/cast-and-characters here]].

Written by former ''Series/EastEnders'' writer Tony Jorsan, it takes a SoapOpera approach of multiple plot strands interacting, of which the main ones are the investigation of [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Jacob Marley]]'s murder by [[Literature/BleakHouse Inspector Bucket]] and [[Literature/GreatExpectations Merriweather Compeyson's seduction of Amelia Havesham]]. Other major characters include [[Literature/AChristmasCarol the Cratchetts]], [[Literature/BleakHouse the Barbarys]], and [[Literature/OliverTwist Fagin's gang]]. A full character guide can be found [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/1BV0vH2JsWR4hSsqdPpmwRk/cast-and-characters here]].