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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.
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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Jonathan Powell
John Irvin
director
Alec Guinness
George Smiley
Michael Jayston
Peter Guillam
Anthony Bate
Sir Oliver Lacon
George Sewell
Mendel
Bernard Hepton
Toby Esterhase
Ian Richardson
Bill Haydon
Hywel Bennett
Ricki Tarr
Michael Aldridge
Percy Alleline
Ian Bannen
Jim Prideaux
Terence Rigby
Roy Bland
Beryl Reid
Connie Sachs
Alexander Knox
Control
Nigel Stock
Roddy Martindale
Milos Kirek
Barak
Eugene Lipinski
Czech Guard
Thorley Walters
Tufty Thessinger
Frank Moorey
Lauder Strickland
Patrick Stewart
Karla
Warren Clarke
Alwyn
John Standing
Sam Collins
Joss Ackland
Jerry Westerby
Guy Standeven
Flemyng-Smith
Siân Phillips
Ann Smiley
George Pravda
Polyakov
Michael Fish
Self (archive footage)
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