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📊 Series Specifications
Network BBC Two
Episode Runtime ~83 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 2
Original Language EN
Creator Tony Marchant
Great Expectations (1999)
Created by Tony Marchant
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Ended Series Status:
This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.
Synopsis
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.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
2 Episodes E1 Part One
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.
E2 Part Two
Despite Pip's desire for an education and change in his status, he will become Joe's apprentice at the forgery.