This Anglia Television series was built around a series of beautiful, highly detailed original watercolour paintings by renowned wartime artist John Worsley. He took over 20 weeks to complete the 250 magnificent illustrations for the story.
Under the skilful direction of John Salway, the camera panned, zoomed, and cut across Worsley’s static illustrations to create a sense of cinematic movement and atmosphere.
Producer Paul Honeyman narrated the episodes, reading from his own carefully edited script of the Charles Dickens text, ensuring Dickens’s precise prose and vocabulary were preserved.
Anglia Television had pioneered this exact narrator-plus-illustrator format a year prior with their successful 1969 adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. Anglia once again reunited the exact same creative team to produce a highly praised adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island in July 1972.
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Under the skilful direction of John Salway, the camera panned, zoomed, and cut across Worsley’s static illustrations to create a sense of cinematic movement and atmosphere.
