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This is about the television film. For the play on which it is based, see Pickwick (musical).

Pickwick is a television film based on the musical of the same name, itself an adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel The Pickwick Papers.

Cast[]

Plot[]

Set in England in 1828, the story centres on wealthy Samuel Pickwick and his valet Sam Weller, who are in a debtors' prison where they recall the misadventures that led to their imprisonment.

On the previous Christmas Eve, Pickwick introduced his friend Wardle, Wardle's daughters, Emily and Isabella, and their Aunt Rachael to Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman, three members of the Pickwick Club. They were soon joined by Alfred Jingle, who tricked Tupman into paying for his ticket to a ball that evening. Upon learning Rachael is an heiress, Jingle set out to win her hand and eventually succeeded.

Pickwick engages Sam Weller as his valet and, through a series of misunderstandings, he inadvertently leads his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, to believe he has proposed marriage to her. Pickwick is charged with breach of promise and hauled into court, where he is found guilty as charged and sentenced to prison when he stubbornly refuses to pay her compensation.

Musical numbers[]

  • "Talk" - Sam and Citizens
  • "That's What I'd Like for Christmas" - Pickwick and Citizens
  • "The Pickwickians" - Pickwick, Snodgrass, Tupman and Winkle
  • "Bit of a Character" - Pickwick, Snodgrass, Tupman and Winkle
  • "There's Something About You" - Jingle, Rachael and Chorus
  • 'Learn a Little Something" - Sam and Mary
  • "You Never Met a Fella Like Me" - Sam and Pickwick
  • "Look Into Your Heart" - Mrs. Bardell
  • "Very" - Jingle, Pickwick and Wardle
  • "If Ruled the World" - Pickwick and Citizens
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