Hard Times

• TV Show
• 1977-10-25
• EN
• Ended
• 0h 53m
• GB
• Drama

• 5.0
• 2

Production

Granada Television, The WNET Group

Storyline

Hard Times is a four-part British television drama miniseries based on Charles Dickens' 1854 novel of the same name, a survey of English society and a satirisation of 19th century social and economic conditions. Wealthy, retired Coketown merchant Thomas Gradgrind devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest, and fact. He raises his eldest children, Louisa and Tom, according to this philosophy and never allows them to engage in fanciful or imaginative pursuits.