Oliver Twist

Created by Alan Bleasdale

On ITV1

A Victorian-era miniseries that follows an orphan's journey from institutional cruelty through criminal underworld to redemption, grounded in social critique of poverty and child exploitation.

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.