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Micawber. Wilkins Micawber (David Jason). Copyright: Yorkshire Television
Micawber

Micawber

  • TV comedy drama
  • ITV1
  • 2001 - 2002
  • 4 episodes (1 series)

David Jason stars as Wilkins Micawber in this gentle festive comedy drama set in the heart of Victorian England. Stars David Jason, Annabelle Apsion, Lucinda Dryzek, Andrew Quigley, Michael Troughton and more.

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Micawber trivia

John Sullivan also penned the classic comedy Only Fools and Horses, the show which turned David Jason into a television icon for his performance as Peckham wheeler-dealer Del Boy Trotter.

Source: ITV

John Sullivan decided to write the screenplay for Micawber after his wife bought him a leather-bound set of Dickens novels. He read them in the same order as he had done years before when he was a schoolboy. When he got to David Copperfield Sullivan says it was blindingly "obvious" who should play the character. So he bought a copy and sent it to David Jason.

Source: ITV

Micawber was Lucinda Dryzek's very first television appearance.

Source: IMDb

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