A rotting wedding cake and a fortune you didn't earn—Dickens' cruelest fairy tale.
Season 1 • Episode 10
LatestPip comes to terms with his foolish, arrogant behavior and seeks forgiveness from the woman he truly loves.
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.
Production
Miss Havisham's decaying manor is production design heaven.
Acting
Havisham's frozen-in-time hysteria steals every scene.
Creator
Campbell Logan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1967 BBC adaptation preserves Dickens' original bleak ending, before he caved to pressure for a happier resolution.
Campbell Logan produced multiple BBC Dickens serials; this was among the first to treat the material with deliberate slowness rather than theatrical bombast.
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