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Great Expectations

Miniseries · 13 episodes · Oct 4, 1981

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.

  1. Episode 1

    Episode One

    Oct 4, 1981

    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. Episode 2

    Episode Two (Part One)

    Oct 11, 1981

  3. Episode 3

    Episode Two (Part Two)

    Oct 18, 1981

  4. Episode 4

    Episode Three

    Oct 25, 1981

  5. Episode 5

    Episode Four

    Nov 1, 1981

  6. Episode 6

    Episode Five

    Nov 8, 1981

  7. Episode 7

    Episode Six

    Nov 15, 1981

  8. Episode 8

    Episode Seven

    Nov 22, 1981

  9. Episode 9

    Episode Eight

    Nov 29, 1981

  10. Episode 10

    Episode Nine

    Dec 6, 1981

  11. Episode 11

    Episode Ten

    Dec 13, 1981

  12. Episode 12

    Episode Eleven

    Dec 20, 1981

  13. Episode 13

    Episode Twelve

    Dec 27, 1981