Julian Amyes
Director
Great Expectations (1981)
Miniseries
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.
Released Oct. 3, 1981
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Drama
Keywords: tmdb.based-on-novel-or-book, tmdb.rags-to-riches, tmdb.victorian-england, tmdb.miniseries, tmdb.period-drama, imdb.pip-character, imdb.magwitch-character + 12 more, imdb.miss-havisham-character, imdb.estella-character, imdb.herbert-pocket-character, imdb.mr-jaggers-character, imdb.tv-mini-series, imdb.melodrama, imdb.benefactor, imdb.great-expectations, imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.orphan, imdb.19th-century, mdblist.imdb-tv-mini-series
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Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Episode One
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.
Oct. 4, 1981, midnight
S1E2 - Episode Two (Part One)
Oct. 11, 1981, midnight
S1E3 - Episode Two (Part Two)
Oct. 18, 1981, midnight
S1E4 - Episode Three
Oct. 25, 1981, midnight
S1E5 - Episode Four
Nov. 1, 1981, midnight
S1E6 - Episode Five
Nov. 8, 1981, midnight
S1E7 - Episode Six
Nov. 15, 1981, midnight
S1E8 - Episode Seven
Nov. 22, 1981, midnight
S1E9 - Episode Eight
Nov. 29, 1981, midnight
S1E10 - Episode Nine
Dec. 6, 1981, midnight
S1E11 - Episode Ten
Dec. 13, 1981, midnight
S1E12 - Episode Eleven
Dec. 20, 1981, midnight
S1E13 - Episode Twelve
Dec. 27, 1981, midnight
Network: BBC One
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Oct. 3, 1981
Last Air Date: Dec. 27, 1981, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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