5/5 Thank heavens! - the best Dickens adaptations
  by Mark Hanson (Seattle, WA USA)
If you're looking for "count the celebs" MTV-style Dickens adaptations, you won't like this set. However, if you like *literature* and tingle with delight at seeing even obscure Dickens characters brought to jaw-droppingly masterful life by seriously talented, clasically trained actors who make you wish Brad Pitt and his ilk would just retire already, then this is the set for you. I've only watched the Great Expectations and Oliver Twist films, but - my goodness - are they fantastic. I actually find the faster-paced, more condensed takes to be more confusing than the more faithful ones, since half of the detail is missing. The older films in this set, at least, were done with a level of care and attention to detail that will wrap you up in these stories and haunt you forever. Not to be missed!

5/5 The Charles Dickens Collection vol 1
  by Robert J. Kadwell
The product is excatly what i expected and is what I wanted to buy. I think it is a good value as well.

5/5 Brilliant
  by Roger Long (Port Clinton, OH USA)
I am certainly glad that the BBC didn't give us "high paced" cut-down versions of Dickens' novels--as one Amazon reviewer suggested would have improved these. In fact, the films follow the novels closely, with all of Dickens' quirky characters, such as Jaggers and Wemmick from "Great Expectations."

Dickens had his faults, to be sure, but they are faults of the period in which they were written, e.g., the over-use of coincidences to tighten the plots, being the greatest fault to a 21st century reader/viewer. However, Dickens' sense of time and place and his creation of memorable characters far overshadow this and make his works delightful.

The production values, the acting, the sets are first-rate in these productions. But if you want car chases and sex scenes, you may want to look elsewhere. Try the James Bond films.

3/5 Pretty good!
  by Terri (Michigan)
I'd rate this product higher if Closed Captioning were available. Also, at least one of the programs (Oliver) is rather "old," and looks & feels dated due to how it was filmed or taped, but if you can deal with that, it's a wonderful story, and well told. Really enjoyed Martin Chuzzlewit (having never seen or read it before), and I know I love Our Mutual Friend (which is the reason I bought the set in the first place). Haven't watched the other 3 productions yet, but am really looking forward to them. I do love these miniseries that take the necessary time to tell the story & capture the feel & intent of Dickens.

4/5 a VERY ATTACTIVE SET
  by Judy Lewis (Sandy, Utah United States)
What a great collections, I gave to my husband for fathers Day. He was ever so very excited, These movies are very well done and worth every penny.