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MASTERPIECE Classic: Great Expectations
Sunday, April 1 & 8 at 9 p.m. (2 Parts) — Meet Pip, the battered orphan boy who rises from blacksmith’s apprentice to gentleman under the patronage of a mysterious benefactor who assures him of “great expectations.”
MASTERPIECE Classic: Oliver Twist
Sunday, March 25 at 10 p.m. (2 Parts) — William Miller stars as Oliver Twist in Charles Dickens’ much-loved story about the young orphan whose request for “more” leads to adventures in early 19th-century London.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Dolley Madison
Monday, March 1 at 9 p.m. — The story of President James Madison’s wife, Dolley, the “first First Lady.”



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