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Great Expectations

1967 · 1 season

A slow, faithful costume drama that lingers on class, memory, and a boy's uneasy rise, with a gothic chill.

Created by: Campbell Logan
Genres: Drama
Starring: Christopher Guard, Gary Bond, Maxine Audley

Overview: 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.

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Created by: Campbell Logan
Genres: Drama
Starring: Christopher Guard, Gary Bond, Maxine Audley

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: class
identity
love
betrayal
memory
Places: countryside
big city
single country house
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	2
Humour	3
Realism	7
Romance	5
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: drama
Created by: Campbell Logan
Written by: Hugh Leonard
Starring: Christopher Guard, Gary Bond, Maxine Audley, Francesca Annis, Richard O'Sullivan, Neil McCarthy, Peter Vaughan, Bernard Hepton
Length: 1 seasons, 10 episodes, 25 min each
Network: BBC One
Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

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