Great Expectations
Great Expectations: Season 1

Air Date

April 12, 1999

Episodes

2 episodes

Great Expectations

Season 1

Overview

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

1. Part One

April 12, 1999

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.

2. Part Two

April 13, 1999

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