Great Expectations

Name: Great Expectations
Genre: Drama
Released: 1981-10-04
Rating: 5.0
Cast: Gerry Sundquist

Drama

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1981

1 Season

13 Episodes

Ended

14+

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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.

#based on novel or book#rags to riches#victorian england#miniseries#period drama

Cast

Gerry Sundquist

as Pip

Seasons

Miniseries

13 episodes1981

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.

Episodes

Miniseries

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Episode One

Oct 4, 198130m

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.