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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Name: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Genre: War & Politics, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1979-09-10
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, George Sewell

One of Britain's master spies is working for the enemy. Can George Smiley beat him at his deadly game?

1979 7.6(131) 2 seasons

Cast

Alec Guinness

George Smiley

Michael Jayston

Peter Guillam

Anthony Bate

Sir Oliver Lacon

George Sewell

Mendel

Episodes

2 seasons available

S0 · E1
E1
John le Carré: The Secret Centre
Sep 12, 2000 50m
The English novelist, John Le Carré discusses his life as a secret agent and writer in this documentary about spies in fact and fiction.
S0 · E2
E2
Interview with John le Carré
50m
S0 · E3
E3
A Conversation with John le Carré
Mar 8, 2002 50m
E4
Michael Jayston Remembers... Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Jan 2, 2023 15m
Michael Jayston played George Smiley’s right-hand man Peter Guillam in the BBC’s acclaimed 1979 adaptation of John le Carré’s classic spy tale. As part of the BBC’s Centenary of Drama, and over four decades on, Michael now looks back on the experience, recalling what it was like working on what is still considered one of the best television series ever made, and how he held his own acting alongside one of the finest acting talents of the 20th century, the great Sir Alec Guinness.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a seven-part BBC2 spy drama written by Arthur Hopcraft, adapted from John le Carré's eponymous 1974 novel. The serial, which stars Alec Guinness, Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell and Michael Aldridge, was broadcast from 10 September to 22 October 1979. George Smiley, the ageing master spy of the Cold War and once heir-apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

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