Great Expectations (1981)
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Great Expectations (1981)

Season 1
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.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Episode 1

    October 3, 1981
    52min
    TV-14
    One Christmas Eve, Pip encounters the escaped convict Magwitch hiding in the churchyard, and Pip is persuaded into stealing.
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  2. S1 E2 - Episode 2

    October 18, 1981
    54min
    TV-14
    Pip receives a great fortune from an undisclosed benefactor and moves to London to start a new life as a gentleman.
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  3. S1 E3 - Episode 3

    November 1, 1981
    54min
    TV-14
    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.
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  4. S1 E4 - Episode 4

    November 15, 1981
    55min
    TV-14
    Pip discovers, to his horror, the identity of his benefactor and no longer wants anything to do with his great fortune.
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  5. S1 E5 - Episode 5

    November 29, 1981
    54min
    TV-14
    Pip is heartbroken to learn that Estella is to be married and attempts to rescue Miss Havisham from a fire.
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  6. S1 E6 - Episode 6

    November 14, 1981
    54min
    TV-14
    Joe and his country manners visit the Garden Court only to embarrass Pip.
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