Bleak House filmed in 1920 and 1922. The latter version featured Sybil Thorndike as Lady Dedlock. In 1928, a short film made in the UK in the Phonofilm sound-on-film process starred Bransby Williams as Grandfather Smallweed. In 1998, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of five hour-long episodes, starring Michael Kitchen as John Jarndyce. The BBC has produced three television adaptations of "Bleak House". The first serial, "Bleak House", was broadcast in 1959 in eleven half-hour episodes. The second "Bleak House", starring Diana Rigg and Denholm Elliott, aired in 1985 as an eight-part series. In 2005, the third "Bleak House" was
Bleak House: The Death of Rudolph van Richten takes place in a city, where players follow up on leads gleaned from the madhouse to find out what fate has in store for Rudolph Van Richten. "Homecoming" draws the characters through the mists and back to Van Richten's family estate "Bleak House" where the characters must race to solve a mystery, stay sane, save Van Richten and get out alive. "Homecoming" employs an invisible time-line to keep the action rolling, the Tarokka (Tarot) system and four possible endings. Trenton Webb reviewed "Bleak House: The Death of Rudolph van Richten" for "Arcane" magazine, rating it an 8 out of 10