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The Great Fire

TV·2014–2014·1 season, 4 episodes·ITV1·Drama·1h·7.0·Created by Tom Butterworth, Tom Bradby

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As the great fire tears London apart, this brand new epic drama details the heart-wrenching stories of a city and its people in crisis.  This drama recreates the chaos of a city imploding in 1666 Great Fire of London.

Castfull cast & details

Andrew BuchanAndrew BuchanThomas FarrinerJack HustonJack HustonKing Charles IIRose LeslieRose LeslieSarah FarrinerCharles DanceCharles DanceLord DentonDaniel MaysDaniel MaysSamuel PepysBen CromptonBen CromptonMr. BagwellOliver Jackson-CohenOliver Jackson-CohenJames, Duke of YorkPerdita WeeksPerdita WeeksElizabeth Pepys

Episodes by season

Season014Episodes2014Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01The Great Fire S01E01Episode 1October 16, 2014—Thomas Farriner returns home to Pudding Lane to find the bakery ablaze and his two daughters asleep upstairs, unaware of the raging inferno
  2. S01E02The Great Fire S01E02Episode 2October 23, 2014—The fire is gaining strength. Thomas bursts into sister-in-law Sarah Farriner’s lodgings to wake his family and lead them to safety. But Sar
  3. S01E03The Great Fire S01E03Episode 3October 30, 2014—Thomas returns to the city in search of Sarah to see the fire spreading with alarming speed across the capital. In Whitehall the King’s angr
  4. S01E04The Great Fire S01E04Episode 4November 6, 2014—Thomas guiltily reveals that Sarah's husband Will is not dead as she suspected, he is in fact alive having deserted to the colonies, leaving

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