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Great Expectations

  • 1981
  • Ended
  • Drama
  • ~30m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 6.3/10

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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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. E1. Episode One

    Oct 4, 1981 · 30m

    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. E2. Episode Two (Part One)

    Oct 11, 1981 · 30m

  3. E3. Episode Two (Part Two)

    Oct 18, 1981 · 30m

  4. E4. Episode Three

    Oct 25, 1981 · 30m

  5. E5. Episode Four

    Nov 1, 1981 · 30m

  6. E6. Episode Five

    Nov 8, 1981 · 30m

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