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The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff

★ 6.9/10•2012•30m•PG•Comedy
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A Victorian comedy adventure in the style of Charles Dickens following shop owner Jedrington Secret-Past. Jedrington teams up with a seemingly charming new business partner, Harmswell Grimstone. As the Secret-Past family's fortunes rise, it looks like they are built on crumbling foundations indeed, especially when it is revealed that Conceptiva too has a secret that turns out to be even darker than Jedrington's own.

Mark Evans · Writer

Ben Gosling Fuller · Director

StatusEnded
Runtime30m
LanguageEN
First Air DateFeb 20, 2012

Episodes

Episode 1 - Episode 1E130m

Episode 1

Jedrington Secret-Past teams up with a charming new business partner, but is Harmswell Grimstone all he seems, or is he actually massively evil? And what is the awful secret behind the cryptic letter that has disturbed Jedrington's wife Conceptiva so greatly that she has made her way to End-It-All Dock? As the Secret-Past family's fortunes rise and rise it turns out that the foundations of their happiness are far from sound.

Feb 20, 2012

Episode 2 - Episode 2E230m

Episode 2

Stricken with grief at the apparent death of his wife, Jedrington begins to question the morality of his business empire until on Easter Eve he is visited by three terrifying ghostly rabbits who drive him over the edge of despair. Meanwhile at the hands of Miss Primly Tightclench the governess Mr Wackvile, headmaster of St Nasty's the Secret-Past children suffer the worst extremes of Victorian education until Victor goes missing in a suspicious accident with an automatic caning machine. But who is the mysterious amnesiac woman wandering the East End?

Feb 27, 2012

Episode 3 - Episode 3E330m

Episode 3

Reduced to poverty and gin addiction Jedrington is at his lowest ebb, until his loyal and true servant Servegood restores him to sobriety by the gentle application of a massive cudgel. Reunited with Conceptiva, the two take the evil Mr Harmswell Grimstone to court to demand the return of the business and their daughter. But when the judge turns out to be Grimstone's uncle the case seems hopeless. Just when all seems lost, the family find the solution in the most unlikely place.

Mar 5, 2012

Actors

Robert Webb

Robert Webb

Jedrington Secret-Past

Katherine Parkinson

Katherine Parkinson

Conceptiva

Tim McInnerny

Tim McInnerny

Harmswell Grimstone

David Mitchell

David Mitchell

Jolliforth Jollington

Susy Kane

Susy Kane

Duchess of Money

Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry

Skulkingworm

Richard Johnson

Richard Johnson

Uncle Writes Prompt Thank You Cards

Adrian Edmondson

Adrian Edmondson

Headmaster Wackville

Derek Griffiths

Derek Griffiths

Pusweasel

Kevin Eldon

Kevin Eldon

Servegood

Finlay Christie

Finlay Christie

Victor

Ambra Lily Keegan

Victoria

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