The TV series The Artful Dodger takes place in 1850s Australia, in the fictional colonial port town of Port Victory.

Main setting

  • Country and era : The story is set in colonial Australia in the 1850s, decades after the events of Oliver Twist.
  • Primary location : Most of the action unfolds in Port Victory, a lively coastal colony where Jack Dawkins works as a surgeon and tries to outrun his criminal past.

How it connects to Oliver Twist

  • Jack Dawkins is the grown-up Artful Dodger, formerly a London pickpocket who has been transported and is now living and working in Australia.
  • The show uses the harsher, sun‑baked world of a penal colony as a backdrop for themes of reinvention, crime, and redemption.

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