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Great Expectations (1981)

5.0/10 Ended 30 min Oct 04, 1981 1 Season
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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Show Details

Original Title Great Expectations
Original Language EN
Status Ended
Type Miniseries
Total Episodes 13
Total Seasons 1
Popularity 0.4

Networks

BBC One
GB

Cast

Gerry Sundquist
Gerry Sundquist
Pip
13 episodes
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Tim Munro
Herbert Pocket
9 episodes
Derek Francis
Derek Francis
Mr Jaggers
8 episodes
Colin Jeavons
Colin Jeavons
Wemmick
8 episodes
Stratford Johns
Stratford Johns
Abel Magwitch
7 episodes
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Phillip Joseph
Joe Gargery
7 episodes
Linal Haft
Linal Haft
Orlick
6 episodes
Peter Whitbread
Peter Whitbread
Compeyson
6 episodes
Joan Hickson
Joan Hickson
Miss Havisham
5 episodes
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Kevin Hart
Startop
1 episodes

Key Crew

Created By James Andrew Hall
Director Julian Amyes
Writer James Andrew Hall
Producer Barry Letts
Music Paul Reade

Seasons

Miniseries
Miniseries
13 episodes 1981

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he...

Networks

BBC One
GB

Keywords

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

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Details
First Air Date October 4, 1981
Last Air Date December 27, 1981
Country GB
Language EN
Status Ended
Popularity 0.4
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