Mr Pancks

All the acting in the BBC's production of Little Dorrit is superb. But one performance that stands out is that of Eddie Marson as Mr Pancks, the debt collector. In the early episodes he is highly unlikeable as he squeezes the last penny for his employer played by John Alderton. But he becomes far more human in his other job as a private investigator. He relentlessly pursues the trail of the Dorrit family and eventually secures their inheritance. His drunken excitement at his quest's conclusion ends with his leapfrogging across the yard outside the Marshalsea Prison for Debt. Fabulous.