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17 November 1991 (UK) morePlot:
Four-part drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British intelligence during the First World War... morePlot Keywords:
Secret Agent
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Spy
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TV Mini-Series
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WWI
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Based On Novel
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Why isn't it available on video or DVD??? more (4 total)Cast
(Series Credited cast)| Alex Jennings | ... | John Ashenden | |
| Joss Ackland | ... | Cumming | |
| Ian Bannen | ... | R | |
| Harriet Walter | ... | Giulia Lazzari | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Rene Auberjonois | ... | John Quincy Harrington | |
| Christopher Baines | ... | Gomez | |
| Terence Bayler | ... | Military Chief | |
| Alan Bennett | ... | Grantly Caypor | |
| László Borbély | ... | Henri | |
| Sarah Bullen | ... | R's secretary | |
| Anna Carteret | ... | Anna Caypor | |
| Hilary Drake | ... | Baroness von Higgins | |
| Tamás Dunai | |||
| Roger Hammond | ... | British MP | |
| Susanna Hamnett | ... | Alexandra Leodinova | |
| Nigel Harrison | ... | Detective | |
| Thomasine Heiner | |||
| Jane Hollowood | |||
| Jason Isaacs | ... | Andrew Lehman | |
| Boris Isarov | ... | Czech agent | |
| Vida Jerman | |||
| Robert Lang | ... | Sir Timothy Semple | |
| Nathan Lewis | ... | GHQ orderly | |
| Bryan Matheson | ... | Irish Colonel | |
| Elizabeth McGovern | ... | Aileen Somerville | |
| Michael Mehlmann | ... | Paid Assassin | |
| Alfred Molina | ... | Carmona | |
| Fiona Mollison | |||
| Kenneth Owens | ... | Gustave Grabow | |
| Hana Maria Pravda | ... | Hotel Landlady | |
| Jon Rumney | ... | Doctor | |
| Graham Seed | ... | British Consul | |
| András Várkonyi | |||
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This is one of the best TV adaptations of a novel I ever saw. As usual, the real good stuff gets locked up in a vault somewhere and eventually fades away. I wish I had recorded all the episodes the last time I saw it (over 10 years ago).