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Our Mutual Friend

TV·1998–1998·1 season, 4 episodes·BBC Two·Drama·1h 30m·Created by Sandy Welch

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After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.

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  1. 01Our Mutual Friend S01E01Episode 1S01E01 · 9.0A body pulled from the Thames is identified as young John Harmon, heir to a fortune made in dust-contracting. Bella Wilfer, his wife-to-be by terms of old Harmon's will, goes into mourning though she has never met her fiancé.
  2. 02Our Mutual Friend S01E02Episode 2S01E02 · 9.0Lizzie Hexam, daughter of the corpse robber who found young Harmon's alleged body, is being courted by two desperate characters: Eugene Wrayburn, a dissolute barrister, and Bradley Headstone, a mentally-deranged schoolmaster.
  3. 03Our Mutual Friend S01E03Episode 3S01E03 · 9.0As the rivalry over who will take Lizzie's hand in marriage intensifies, Lizzie flees. Meanwhile, the once-kindly Mr. Boffin has become a tyrant to Rokesmith, who evokes the sympathy of the formerly haughty Bella.

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Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode4Episodes1998Aired 9.0Season avg
  1. S01E01Our Mutual Friend S01E01Season's bestEpisode 1March 9, 1998 9.0A body pulled from the Thames is identified as young John Harmon, heir to a fortune made in dust-contracting. Bella Wilfer, his wife-to-be b
  2. S01E02Our Mutual Friend S01E02Episode 2March 16, 1998 9.0Lizzie Hexam, daughter of the corpse robber who found young Harmon's alleged body, is being courted by two desperate characters: Eugene Wray
  3. S01E03Our Mutual Friend S01E03Episode 3March 23, 1998 9.0As the rivalry over who will take Lizzie's hand in marriage intensifies, Lizzie flees. Meanwhile, the once-kindly Mr. Boffin has become a ty
  4. S01E04Our Mutual Friend S01E04Episode 4March 30, 1998 9.0Harmon is planning to claim his dust fortune from the Boffins, who have been playing villains to test Bella's true character. Meanwhile, Eug

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