Drama

Great Expectations

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First Aired:April 12, 1999

Seasons:1 season

Episodes:2

Status:Ended

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.

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Cast

Ioan Gruffudd

Pip

Justine Waddell

Estella

Charlotte Rampling

Miss Havisham

Laura Aikman

Young Biddy

Nicholas Blane

Blane Wopsle

Selina Cadell

Sarah Pocket

Jo Cameron Brown

Miss Skiffins

Emma Cunniffe

Biddy

Tony Curran

Orlick

Laurence Dobiesz

Young Herbert

Leo Dolan

Sheriff's Officer

Sarah Durham

Maid

Michael Eaves

Police Officer

Daniel Evans

Herbert Pocket

Gemma Gregory

Young Estella

Seasons & Episodes

E1Part One

84m

Apr 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.

E2Part Two

84m

Apr 13, 1999

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