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Release year: 1985

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My Brother Jonathan is a 1985 BBC five part mini-series that relates the story of an idealistic doctor, Jonathan Dakkers, in the coal country of England during the period around WW1 and a love triangle.

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Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis — Jonathan Dakers
Benedict Taylor — Harold Dakers
Helen Ryan — Lavinia Dakers
Caroline Bliss — Edie Martyn

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• My Brother Jonathan (1985) is a BBC five part mini-series that relates the story of an idealistic doctor, Jonathan Dakkers, in the coal country of England during the period around WW1 and a love triangle.

• My Brother Jonathan (1985) is a British television drama series which first aired on BBC 2 in five episodes between 12 August and 9 September 1985. It is based on the 1928 novel of the same name by Francis Brett Young, which had previously been made into a film My Brother Jonathan (1948). Jonathan Dakers is an idealistic young doctor in a coal mining area of Northern England around the time of the First World War.