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📺 Series

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

📅 1979 ⭐ 7.6 🕐 50 min GB GB

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.

Seasons & Episodes
Limited Series 7 episodes
E1
Return to the Circus 1979-09-10
E2
Tarr Tells His Story 1979-09-17
E3
Smiley Tracks the Mole 1979-09-24
E4
How It All Fits Together 1979-10-01
E5
Tinker Tailor 1979-10-08
E6
Smiley Sets a Trap 1979-10-15
E7
Flushing Out the Mole 1979-10-22
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