 BBC2 originally broadcast the 85 minute for 1 episode and the further of 60 minutes for final 5 episodes from 7 November to 12 December 1994.Elderly, wealthy Martin Chuzzlewit is constantly hounded by his money-grubbing relations, a fact that depresses and embitters him.He adopts an orphan young woman, Mary Graham, whom he wants as a companion in his old age; she will be paid an annual allowance but will not benefit from his death.