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 House" campaign "is a strong blend of the old and the new. Haunted houses and deserted islands are hardly original "Ravenloft" concepts, but they're delivered in a confident and coherent style." He noted a few problems with "Bleak House": "Van Richten, for instance, seems to have forgotten what he learned from Dr. Illhousen in the "Nightmare Lands" expansion. The impact of the shipwreck scenario is marred if you've played "Neither Man Nor Beast" and the manuals suffer from clumsy artwork. But those are points for pedants." Webb concluded the review by saying, ""Bleak House" is a campaign that will destroy