第 1 季 共 8 集
播出时间:1985年4月11日
第 1 集 Episode 1
播出时间:1985年4月11日
Young Esther Summerson, brought up as an orphan, is summoned to London by her guardian's solicitors. She is to meet the Wards of Court in Jarndyce and Jarndyce court case over a will, and become acquainted with her guardian John Jarndyce for the first time.
第 2 集 Episode 2
播出时间:1985年4月18日
Esther is entrusted with the running of Bleak House.
第 3 集 Episode 3
播出时间:1985年4月25日
Lady Dedlock ceases the case, Esther refuses an offer of marriage and Miss Flite collapses after a court hearing.
第 4 集 Episode 4
播出时间:1985年5月2日
Lady Dedlock persuades Jo, a young crossing sweeper, to show her the haunts of the late Captain Hawdon. Richard's intended engagement to Ada perturbs Jarndyce, who considers it hasty, and they argue.
第 5 集 Episode 5
播出时间:1985年5月9日
Smallweed presses George for documents in Captain Hawdon's handwriting, while Jo is questioned about the 'Lady' Tulkinghorn showed around London.
第 6 集 Episode 6
播出时间:1985年5月16日
Esther becomes ill with smallpox, while Smallweed inherits Krook's property.
第 7 集 Episode 7
播出时间:1985年5月23日
Esther, severely scarred, has recovered from smallpox. She meets Lady Dedlock, who confesses that she is her mother. Jo has been found desperately ill and living rough, but dies soon afterwards. The lawyer Tulkinghorn, has been murdered in his rooms.
第 8 集 Episode 8
播出时间:1985年5月30日
Richard, now married to Ada, continues the legal cause of Jarndyce.