Series

Great Expectations

6.319811 seasonDrama

Creator: Julian Amyes
Year: 1981

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

Top cast

Gerry Sundquist

Pip

Created by

Julian Amyes

Directed by

Julian Amyes

Written by

James Andrew Hall

Produced by

Barry Letts