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Great Expectations is a 1981 BBC drama serial based on the 1861 novel by Charles Dickens. [1] It was directed by Julian Amyes and adapted by James Andrew Hall. [2]
1981 – Great Expectations – a BBC serial starring Stratford Johns, Gerry Sundquist, Joan Hickson, Patsy Kensit and Sarah-Jane Varley. Produced by Barry Letts, and directed by Julian Amyes. 1983 – an animated version, starring Phillip Hinton, Liz Horne, Robin Stewart and Bill Kerr, adapted by Alexander Buzo. [173]
Great Expectations is a three-part BBC television drama adaptation by Sarah Phelps of the Charles Dickens’s 1861 novel of the same name, starring Ray Winstone as Magwitch, Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham, [1] Douglas Booth as Pip, Vanessa Kirby as Estella and David Suchet as Jaggers. The adaptation was first broadcast on British television ...
COMMENT: ‘Peaky Blinders’ creator Steven Knight’s take on the Charles Dickens classic premieres on the BBC this weekend, following adaptations by Alfonso Cuarón and Mike Newell. But does ...
8 September – Only Fools and Horses (1981–1983, 1985–1993, 1996, 2001–2003, 2014) 10 September – The Day of the Triffids (1981) 14 September – Willo the Wisp (1981, 2005) 16 September – Postman Pat (1981–1982, 1990; 1997, 2004–2008) 24 September – Fanny by Gaslight (1981) 4 October – Great Expectations (1981)
STATE OF THE ARTS: Charles Dickens’ timeless 1861 novel has been adapted for TV and film numerous times – with the BBC’s new miniseries coming just 12 years after it last tackled the story.
This adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel, which stars Olivia Colman, Fionn Whitehead and Shalom Brune-Franklin, is a very dark and different take.
He had a prominent role as Calpurnius Piso in the BBC's acclaimed adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius (1976); he played Magwitch in the BBC's 1981 adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations, and the jailer in The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs. Johns appeared in the 1984 pop video for Young at Heart recorded by The Bluebells.