Trivia

Although a single season of fifteen (15) episodes was aired, some video streaming services list only eight (8) episodes. Aside from the first episode which was an hour in length, the following episodes are only a half-hour each. In most instances, two half-hour episodes are streamed as a single episode, accounting for the discrepancy between some streaming services, databases, and review sites and the number of episodes listed. S01E01 (aired as E01 with one hour length) S01E02 (aired as E02 and E03) S01E03 (aired as E04 and E05) S01E04 (aired as E06 and E07) S01E05 (aired as E08 and E09) S01E06 (aired as E10 and E11) S01E07 (aired as E12 and E13) S01E08 (aired as E14 and E15) This was created to perhaps clear up some confusion regarding the "missing episodes" of E09 through E15.

The character of Clamb the law clerk was created for the miniseries. He primarily appears in scenes where, in the novel, Tulkinghorn was sitting alone and thinking about information which set up forthcoming plot elements. Making Tulkinghorn able to talk to Clamb eliminates the need for soliloquies, which would not be believable in this narrative format.

Charles Dance states in the DVD extras that he considers his character Josiah Tulkinghorn to be one of the most reprehensible characters in Charles Dickens' oeuvre, and that is saying something as Dickens created a plethora of despicable villains. Dance further states that he interprets Mr. Tulkinghorn's hatred of women to indicate a repressed homosexuality, even though neither the script nor the source novel give this direction.

In the mid 1970s, Anthony Harvey tried to set up a version with Robert Shaw and Vanessa Redgrave or Anne Bancroft, but the financing fell through.

The novel Bleak House begins thusly: "Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill." This makes Bleak House one of the first works of fiction to reference a dinosaur, though its imagery is based on an infamously inaccurate reconstruction of the creature. The line about Megalosaurus appears nowhere in the miniseries.