Broadcast: Dec. 1, 1985-Jan. 19, 1986. Orphan Esther Summerson is summoned to London by her guardian's solicitors. There she meets wards of the court Richard Carstone and Ada Claire who are involved in a long-running court case: "Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce." With this plot, Dickens' novel of social reform attacks the absurdities of Victorian England's judicial system. The court case, which has dragged on through two generations, ensnares the two young wards and those around them.
