"The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff" is a British comedy series about a shop in Victorian London. Mr. Jedrington Secret-Past, along with his family, runs a store filled with all sorts of strange items and oddities. However, one day the police arrive at his home, sealing off the shop and taking his wife and children to debtors' prison. Greedy lawyer Malifax Quilp informs Jedrington that he has inherited a massive debt from a great-grandfather he never even knew existed.