All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Miriam Margolyes, ranked

Ebenezer Blackadder, the Victorian proprietor of a moustache shop, is the nicest man in England. He is everything that Ebenezer Scrooge was by the end of the original story: generous and kind to everybody, and sensitive to the misery of others. As a result, people take advantage of his kindness – Mrs. Scratchit and an orphan take all his money, and a beadle takes his food.

In Imperial China, Hua Mulan is an adventurous and active girl, to the disappointment of her parents, who hopes that one day she will be wed to a good husband. As a young woman, Mulan is forced to meet with a matchmaker to demonstrate her fitness as a future wife. Mulan, flustered, attempts to pour tea in front of the matchmaker, but a spider causes a panic that destroys the kettle, and the matchmaker calls her a disgrace in front of her family.

Follow Mog, who experiences a sense of neglect amidst the Thomas family’s Christmas hustle. Upon encountering the massive Christmas tree, Mog becomes overwhelmed and decides to ascend to the roof. Despite the family’s persistent efforts, she adamantly refuses to budge from her perch.

In 1843, four years after the success of Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens is suffering financial hardship from the failure of his last three books. Rejected by his publishers, he sets out to write a new book, and publish it himself, to restore his finances. Seeing inspiration around London, he begins writing A Christmas Carol.

Soren, a young barn owl, lives in the Tyto Forest in Illinois with his family; his father, Noctus; his mother, Marella; his older brother, Kludd; his younger sister, Eglantine; and Mrs. P, the family’s nest maid, a kind blind snake. At St. Aegolius, the owlets are greeted by the Pure Ones’ queen Nyra, who says that they will be divided into either soldiers or pickers.

James Henry Trotter is a young orphan whose parents were devoured by a rhinoceros, forcing him to live with his sadistic and domineering aunts Spiker and Sponge. The peach pit is made into a cottage in Central Park, where James lives happily with the bugs, who form his new family and also find success and fame in the city.

Sidney Young, an aspiring British journalist who runs a failing polemical magazine, attempts to infiltrate a party organized by Clayton Harding, the CEO of Sharps, one of the most prestigious magazines in the world. Sidney gains Alison’s respect by explaining his disapproval of Eleanor’s practices, and Alison reveals that she also despises her job, and has been working sporadically on a novel for years, which she hopes to publish.

In 2 million B.C, an asteroid collides with the prehistoric Earth, causing the extinction of planet’s dinosaurs, but sparing a tribe of cavemen living near the impact site. Finding a roughly spherical chunk of the asteroid that is too hot to touch, the cavemen begin to kick it around and invent the game of football.

In 1979, the Pope sends a priest on a mission to find and protect a girl identified in New York by Satanists as one chosen to be the mother of Satan’s child after witnessing a comet arching over the moon at the Vatican. Marge Francis, an NYPD detective and Jericho’s former colleague, tells him that Aquinas has no tongue.

An American archaeologist, accompanied by his pregnant wife, embarks on an expedition in Egypt in search of a lost tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian queen. Simultaneously, as he unlocks the tomb’s cursed seal, his wife gives birth to their daughter. Many years later, it becomes evident that the malevolent spirit of the Egyptian queen exited the tomb just as he entered, taking possession of their baby girl.