Escape of the Artful Dodger

Australia

The story

Escape of the Artful Dodger is an Australian children's television series first screened on the Nine Network in 2001. The plot is an epilogue to the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist, portraying the character of Jack Dawkins in colonial New South Wales. While he remains a nimble-fingered young pickpocket, the "Artful Dodger" has been adapted slightly to be more appealing to younger audiences, behaving more llike a benevolent Robin Hood.

Plot

Having been deported to Australia along with fellow crook Will Grady while Oliver Twist and Hannah Schuller are on their way to join up with Hannah's brother Michael, Dodger and his new friends find themselves facing obstacles along the way, namely, the tyranny and cruelty of the corrupt Sergeant Bates.

Cast

Luke O'Loughlin as Dodger
Rowan Witt as Oliver Twist
Brittany Byrnes as Hannah Schuller
Simon Scarlett as Wild Will Grady
Barry Langrishe as Sergeant Bates
Mathew Waters as Scratch
Henri Szeps as Dr. Hartman
Phillip Hinton as Mr. Brownlow
Maggie Blinco as Mrs Posset
Kate Sherman as Becky
Christopher Baz as Fagin
Bill Conn as Mr Butterfield
Aurora Voss as Kelly
Shane Briant as Colonel Springs
Richard Wilson as Lord Edward Tuxley
Brian Rooney as Cedric
Peter Whitford as Father O'Brien
Linal Haft as Mr. Micawber
Peter Gwynne as Uriah Heep
John Meillon Jr. as Charles Dickens