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Great Expectations

1981 · 1 season · 30m per episode · 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.

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Seasons

• Miniseries — 13 episodes (October 4, 1981)

Cast

• Gerry Sundquist as Pip

Details

Created by

James Andrew Hall

First aired

October 4, 1981

Episodes

13

Genres

Drama

Network

BBC One

Status

Ended

TMDB score

6.3 / 10 from 3 votes