Smiley's People
1982 Drama, Mystery 1 season
TMDB rating 7.7/10 Ended
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
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Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
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TMDB rating 7.7/10
Cast and details
Alec GuinnessGeorge Smiley
Eileen AtkinsMadame Ostrakova
Bill PatersonLauder Strickland
Vladek SheybalOtto Leipzig
Andy BradfordFerguson
Bernard HeptonToby Esterhase
Anthony BateOliver Lacon
Michael ByrnePeter Guillam
Tusse SilbergAlexandra Ostrakova
Germaine DelbatMadame La Pierre
Ingrid PittElvira
Michael LonsdaleAnton Grigoriev
- Created by
- John le Carré
- Network
- BBC Two
- First aired
- Sep 20, 1982
- Latest episode
- Oct 25, 1982
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