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MASTERPIECE Oliver Twist

Dickens’ much loved story of daring pickpockets, diabolical villains, and amazing adventures. Part 2, Friday at 9:30 p.m. on PBS-HD.

A young orphan is branded a rebel for wanting more gruel, leading to a phantasmagoria of adventures in early 19th-century London. William Miller stars as Oliver Twist in Charles Dickens’ much-loved story, with Timothy Spall as Fagin the cutpurse king, Adam Arnold as the Artful Dodger and a galaxy of other great actors creating the seedy, sentimental and colorful world that can only be called Dickensian.

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Cast of "Oliver Twist"

Oliver is orphaned in the countryside, sent to the workhouse, sold into servitude after his immortal appeal, “Please, sir, I want some more,” apprenticed to a sadistic coffin maker, and then driven to flee for his life to the only safe haven he can imagine: the den of delinquents, prostitutes, and murderers known as London.

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