Prime Video: Great Expectations (1981)

6 episodes

1. Episode 1

One Christmas Eve, Pip encounters the escaped convict Magwitch hiding in the churchyard, and Pip is persuaded into stealing.

TV-PG

52min

Oct 3, 1981

2. Episode 2

Pip receives a great fortune from an undisclosed benefactor and moves to London to start a new life as a gentleman.

TV-PG

54min

Oct 10, 1981

3. Episode 3

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.

TV-PG

54min

Oct 17, 1981

4. Episode 4

Pip discovers, to his horror, the identity of his benefactor and no longer wants anything to do with his great fortune.

TV-PG

55min

Nov 15, 1981

5. Episode 5

Pip is heartbroken to learn that Estella is to be married and attempts to rescue Miss Havisham from a fire.

TV-PG

54min

Oct 31, 1981

6. Episode 6

Joe and his country manners visit the Garden Court only to embarrass Pip.

TV-PG

54min

Nov 7, 1981

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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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