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Great Expectations

1h 23min

Drama

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.

Production Companies

GBH

BBC Worldwide

Episodes

Cast

Season 1

Part One

1. Part One

12th Apr 1999

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.

Part Two

2. Part Two

13th Apr 1999

Despite Pip's desire for an education and change in his status, he will become Joe's apprentice at the forgery.

First air date

12th Apr 1999

Last air date

13th Apr 1999

Status

Ended

Type

Miniseries

Original language

en

Networks