Barnaby Rudge: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens. The plot is a murder mystery interwoven with the historical events of England's Gordon riots of 1780, a violent and bloody clash between fanatical, anti-Catholic Protestants, who vehemently opposed Parliament's recent legislation, the Catholic Relief Act of 1778, which loosened some of England's stringent, Anti-Catholic Penal laws. This opposition is alluded to throughout the novel by some of the characters' recurring demotic cries of "no-popery". The action is seen through the eyes of the good-hearted title character, the idiot Barnaby Rudge.

Series details

• Title: Barnaby Rudge
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 1960-09-30
• Final broadcast date listed: 1960-12-23
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 23357
• IMDb ID: tt0224833
• TVDB ID: 186331

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1960-09-30; final listed air date 1960-12-23; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Barnaby Rudge on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.