I have been watching the BBC 1985 adaption of Bleak House. I liked the look of it more than the 2005 version, because I thought Diana Rigg would make a better Lady Dedlock than Gillian Anderson. It is pretty good. I was not sure about Denholm Elliot as John Jarndyce, but he won me over. The actors who played Tulkinghorn, Lady Dedlock, John Jarndyce, Esther Summerson, Ada Clare and Richard Carstone are all excellent. The only actor I do not like is the one who plays my favourite character, William Guppy. In the book, Mr Guppy is a comic character. He is not a particularly good man, but neither is he a bad man. In the 1985 TV series, he is sinister and not at all funny.