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A series of events change the orphaned Pip's life forever as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.

A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Follows orphan Pip, who spent his childhood as a blacksmith's apprentice and suddenly receives a windfall from an unknown benefactor that allows him to travel to London and enter high society.

The orphan Pip becomes a gentleman when his life is transformed by a mystery benefactor.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

9 year old 'Pip' Pirrip, an orphan living with relatives, aids and befriends an escaped convict on the moors, an act that will have a profound effect on his life.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

"Hold your noise!" - are the first words the convict Abel Magwitch growls at Pip in "Great Expectations". But what were the events that led him to become this manacled man covered in blood and mud? The story begins with Magwitch in solitary confinement upon a Prison Hulk. Suffering from a fever, the convict dreams about a life gone by, from his first crime to his first love and the daughter he lost forever. Inspired by the Charles Dickens Novel "Great Expectations".

A boy helps to escape a convict after meeting him at his mother's graveyard. The convict gets rich in Australia and when he returns is arrested again but released in the last moment after a dying convict confesses.

Cultural historian Dr. David Parker and Thelma Grove of the International Dickens Fellowship discuss characters, themes and the plot, as well as the importance, of Dickens's novel Great Expectations. Key scenes from the novel are dramatized. Parker and Grove point out the associations of the characters with actual people and events in Dickens' hometown of Rochester, England, and offer different views on Pip's relationships with the characters Mrs. Havisham, Estella, Jaggers, Joe Gargery, and Magwitch. Themes discussed include penal reform, chains of events leading to catastrophic and unforeseen circumstances, unrequited love.

In the first of this two-part adaptation, Pip, a young man with an inheritance, suffers through problems that arise due to his friendship with an escaped criminal.

In part two, Pip gets his own apartment, falls in love, and has another encounter with the criminal Magwitch.

Wishbone is chosen to be the model for a dog statue built in Jackson Park, but the 'famous' artist, Wanda's cousin, is a snob. 'Great Expectations' is the book of the day, with Wishbone as Pip.

Pip, a poor orphan, meets a convict in a graveyard and is later taken to Satis House, where he meets the sinister Miss Havisham and also her ward Estella.