Debuting on Tuesday 1 September 1998, this ITV miniseries – created and produced by Lynda La Plante and based on a 1997 made-for-television feature film-length pilot of the same name (featuring a straight performance from Freddie Starr) – followed an experimental undercover unit comprising some of Britain’s best police officers.
ESUS – the Elite Specialist Undercover Squad (a fictional but allegedly plausible police unit) – operated in the territory between conventional policing and espionage.
The team was headed by an ex-MI5 boss named Edna Colley (played by Miriam Margolyes). Larry Lamb was maverick agent Simon Hughes, an MI5 man for 20 years, and ex-House of Eliottstar Stella Gonet was DCI Jane Leyland.
Eamonn Walker, Ade Sapara and Benedict Wong reprised their roles from the 1997 pilot to make up what must be the most ethnically mixed police unit in Britain.
Each case ran for two episodes.
Edna Colley
Miriam Margolyes Simon Hughes
Larry Lamb Jane Leyland
Stella Gonet Eddie McEwan
Martin Kemp Frankie Li
Benedict Wong Harrington
Ade Sapara Meryl
Susan Ellen Flynn Mike
Andrew Charleson Jake Brown
Eamonn Walker Da Souza
Christopher Simon Peter Harper
Terry O’Neill
Episodes
Raw Recruit: Part 1 | Raw Recruit: Part 2 || Golden Goose: Part 1 | Golden Goose: Part 2 || Blood Ties: Part 1 | Blood Ties: Part 2
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The team was headed by an ex-MI5 boss named Edna Colley (played by Miriam Margolyes). Larry Lamb was maverick agent Simon Hughes, an MI5 man for 20 years, and ex-House of Eliott star Stella Gonet was DCI Jane Leyland.
