Great Expectations
Great Expectations: Season 1

Air Date

October 4, 1981

Episodes

13 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. Episode One

October 4, 1981
30 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.

2. Episode Two (Part One)

October 11, 1981
30 min

3. Episode Two (Part Two)

October 18, 1981
30 min

4. Episode Three

October 25, 1981
30 min

5. Episode Four

November 1, 1981
30 min

6. Episode Five

November 8, 1981
30 min

7. Episode Six

November 15, 1981
30 min

8. Episode Seven

November 22, 1981
30 min

9. Episode Eight

November 29, 1981
30 min

10. Episode Nine

December 6, 1981
30 min

11. Episode Ten

December 13, 1981
30 min

12. Episode Eleven

December 20, 1981
30 min

13. Episode Twelve

December 27, 1981
30 min