TV series / 1981

Great Expectations

Name: Great Expectations
Genre: Drama
Released: 1981-10-04
Cast: Gerry Sundquist, Tim Munro, Derek Francis, Colin Jeavons, Stratford Johns

Episode directors Julian Amyes

Drama

★ 6.3/10Audience rating

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.

The story

The seasons

Season 1 Miniseries 1981 · 13 episodes Season details

Oct. 4, 1981

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.