Great Expectations

Miniseries

1981 · 13 episodes · 6h 30m in all

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.

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Episode One

   4 Oct 1981 · 30 min

   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.

2. 2

   2. Episode Two (Part One)

   11 Oct 1981 · 30 min

3. 3

   3. Episode Two (Part Two)

   18 Oct 1981 · 30 min

4. 4

   4. Episode Three

   25 Oct 1981 · 30 min

5. 5

   5. Episode Four

   1 Nov 1981 · 30 min

6. 6

   6. Episode Five

   8 Nov 1981 · 30 min

7. 7

   7. Episode Six

   15 Nov 1981 · 30 min

8. 8

   8. Episode Seven

   22 Nov 1981 · 30 min

9. 9

   9. Episode Eight

   29 Nov 1981 · 30 min

10. 10

    10. Episode Nine

    6 Dec 1981 · 30 min

11. 11

    11. Episode Ten

    13 Dec 1981 · 30 min

12. 12

    12. Episode Eleven

    20 Dec 1981 · 30 min

13. 13

    13. Episode Twelve

    27 Dec 1981 · 30 min