Hard Times, the Charles Dickens novel has also been adapted twice as a mini-series for British television, once in 1977 Hard Times (1977) by ITV with Patrick Allen as Gradgrind, Timothy West as Bounderby, Rosalie Crutchley as Mrs. Sparsit and Edward Fox as Harthouse, and again in 1994 Hard Times (1994) by the BBC with Bob Peck as Gradgrind, Sir Alan Bates as Bounderby, Dilys Laye as Mrs. Sparsit, Bill Paterson as Stephen, Harriet Walter as Rachael and Richard E. Grant as Harthouse.