The Victorian-era settings, vivid characters, and socially conscious themes of   Charles Dickens' major novels are wonderfully communicated in this collection    of adaptations produced for British television. Bleak House (Ross          Devenish, 1985, 391 mins.) stars Denholm Elliot and Diana Rigg in an           atmospheric adaptation of Dickens' stinging indictment of England's corrupt    legal system and class divisions. In Hard Times (John Irvin, 1977, 240   mins.), Jacqueline Tong plays heroine Louisa Gradgrind, a former circus          employee who succumbs to dehumanizing labor conditions in the industrial       village of Coketown. Martin Chuzzlewitt (Pedr James, 1994, 288 mins.)    stars Sir John Mills and Paul Scofield in Dickens' cross-Atlantic tale of      insatiable greed. Oliver Twist (Gareth Davies, 1985, 333 mins.) stars      Ben Rodska as the young orphan who undergoes a rags-to-riches transformation   and falls prey to a greedy pickpocket. Finally, Our Mutual Friend        (Julian Farino, 1998, 360 mins.) recounts Dickens' saga of two young women     Ross Devenish/John Irvin/Julian Farino/Gareth Davies/Pedr James---Great Br  itain---1977-1998---1920 mins.