Open Space: Bleak House (BBC documentary, 1985)

The wretched inhabitants of Dickens's story struggle to live amid the slums and brutality of Victorian times - for the tenants of Bleak House Estate, Burnley, little seems to have changed.
With no money to modernise, and no clear idea of what else to do, the council want the estate off their hands with a quick sale. But many of the tenants have lived there for 30 years or more - no matter how bad things are, their roots are there.
Photography David Sawan
Film editor Roger Dacier
Producer Paul Pierrot

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Pity this production isn’t available on DVD right now.
As a die-hard fan of the BBC/ATV/Granada ‘60s-80s drama (including soap) series (shot mainly in studios, a feature which I find cozy), I couldn’t watch more than 5 minutes of the first episode of the 2005 adaptation which I regret buying on DVD. Directors obsessed with moving the camera constantly, TV filming which looks like cinematic filming, and (above all) interminably dysfunctional, Muzak-like soundtracks (RIP Carl Davis and Co.) and horrendous sound effects which ruin our involvement in the dialogues throughout. Doomsday is surely near.