Name: Great Expectations
Released: 1981-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

Great Expectations

1981

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A 1981 adaptation of the Dickens classic. Violence and Victorian gentility meet in one of Dickens' greatest creations. Pip's epic journey from boy to man has at its center his relationships with the terrifying convict Magwitch, manipulative Miss Havisham and the beautiful but heartless Estella.

1981

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Pip has a terrifying encounter with an escaped convict and later the mysterious Miss Havisham summons Pip to Satis House, where he finds himself falling for her adopted daughter, Estella.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Pip receives a great fortune from an undisclosed benefactor and moves to London to start a new life as a gentleman.
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

As part of his new life, Pip quickly acquires expensive tastes and mounting debts. Pip returns to Satis House and once again meets Estella, now a beautiful young woman.
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

Pip discovers, to his horror, the identity of his benefactor and no longer wants anything to do with his great fortune.
EPISODE 5

Episode 5

Pip is heartbroken to learn that Estella is to be married and attempts to rescue Miss Havisham from a fire.
EPISODE 6

Episode 6

Magwitch is captured and sentenced to death. Pip later returns to the village where he grew up, now older and wiser.

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