Great Expectations Episode One (Season 1, Episode 1)
TV-14
TV Episode | 30 min | Drama

Great Expectations

Episode One (Season 1, Episode 1)

TV-14

TV Episode | 30 min | Drama

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.

Director

Julian Amyes

Writers

Charles Dickens (novel) | James Andrew Hall (dramatised by)

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Edit Released

Updated Oct 4, 1981

Release date

Oct 4, 1981 (United Kingdom)

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15 cast members

Name	Known for
Gerry Sundquist Pip Pip See fewer	Golden Hill (1975)
Graham McGrath Pip (aged 8) Pip (aged 8) See fewer	Krull (1983)
Stratford Johns Abel Magwitch Abel Magwitch See fewer	Cromwell (1970)
Phillip Joseph Joe Gargery Joe Gargery See fewer	Three Seven Eleven (1993)
Marjorie Yates Mrs. Joe Gargery Mrs. Joe Gargery See fewer	The Professionals (1977)
John Stratton Uncle Pumblechook Uncle Pumblechook See fewer	The Third Key (1956)
Peter Benson Mr. Wopsle Mr. Wopsle See fewer	Albion Market (1985)
Walter Sparrow Mr. Hubble Mr. Hubble See fewer	Now and Then (1995)
Christine Ozanne Mrs. Hubble Mrs. Hubble See fewer	Fighting with My Family (2019)
Peter Whitbread Compeyson Compeyson See fewer	The Eagle of the Ninth (1977)
Adrian Bracken Sergeant Sergeant See fewer	Churchill's Secret Son (2014)
Paul Davies Prowles Pip (aged 12) Pip (aged 12) See fewer	Great Expectations (1981)
John Cannon Police Officer Who Drags Magwitch Out of the Water (uncredited) Police Officer Who Drags Magwitch Out of the Water (uncredited) See fewer	Doctor Who (1963)
Harry Fielder Police Officer Who Drags Magwitch Out of the Water (uncredited) Police Officer Who Drags Magwitch Out of the Water (uncredited) See fewer	Doctor Who (1963)
Reg Turner Soldier (uncredited) Soldier (uncredited) See fewer	Little Voice (1998)