Great Expectations
Miniseries
Created by: James Andrew Hall
Network: BBC One
Season aired: 1981-10-04
Overview
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
About This Season
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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Episodes · 13
Episode One
Young Pip lives with his tyrranical sister and her blacksmith husband, Joe until a nightmarish encounter with an escaped convict, Magwitch, forces him to visit the stately Satis House.
