Arthur befriends Amy, but only as someone helping his mother. Returning to England after 15 years, Arthur gives his mother the watch, which she opens and reads "Do not forget." Arthur is enamoured of the beautiful Minnie (Pet) Meagles, who prefers aspiring artist, Henry Gowan, to her parents' distress. He gives Arthur a pocket watch for her, with hidden meaning. His dying wish is that his son "put it right" with his mother. Clennam is ill in China with his son, Arthur. Clennam, a cranky, cold and forbidding semi-invalid living in a crumbling home with servants, the sinister Jeremiah Flintwinch and his bumbling wife, Affery. Since her birth in 1805, twenty-one years prior, Amy Dorrit has lived in the Marshalsea Prison for Debt, caring for her father, William, who now enjoys a position of privileged seniority as the Father of the Marshalsea.
The series won seven Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries. In Australia, episodes were combined into seven-parts on ABC1 each Sunday at 8:30pm from 27 June 2010 and has since been repeated on UKTV. In the United States, it aired in five episodes as part of PBS's Masterpiece series between 29 March and 26 April 2009. It originally was broadcast by BBC One and BBC HD, beginning on 26 October 2008 with a 60-minute opening episode, followed by 12 half-hour episodes and a 60-minute finale. The series was a joint production of the BBC and the American PBS member station WGBH Boston. The screenplay is by Andrew Davies and the episodes were directed by Adam Smith, Dearbhla Walsh, and Diarmuid Lawrence. Little Dorrit is a 2008 British miniseries based on Charles Dickens's serial novel of the same title, originally published between 18.
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