2 episodes

Great Expectations - Season 1

First aired Apr 12, 1999Season 1

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

No episode image

Episode 1

Part One

Apr 12, 199984 min

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.

No episode image

Episode 2

Part Two

Apr 13, 199984 min

Despite Pip's desire for an education and change in his status, he will become Joe's apprentice at the forgery.