Great Expectations
1981 Drama 1 season
TMDB rating 6.3/10 Ended
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.
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Gerry SundquistPip- Tim MunroHerbert Pocket
Derek FrancisMr Jaggers
Colin JeavonsWemmick
Stratford JohnsAbel Magwitch- Phillip JosephJoe Gargery
Linal HaftOrlick
Peter WhitbreadCompeyson
Joan HicksonMiss Havisham- Kevin HartStartop
- Created by
- James Andrew Hall
- Network
- BBC One
- First aired
- Oct 4, 1981
- Latest episode
- Dec 27, 1981
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