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    Drama TV Shows - 1980s 1 Min Read

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    1 9 8 3 (UK)
    6 x 60 minute episodes

    Former Oxford don Dr David Audley (Terence Stamp) and his team of counter-intelligence agents plodded through this slow-moving six-part spy drama from Granada.

    The first episode began with the resurrection of an old RAF Pembroke from a Lincolnshire lake with a skeleton pilot at the controls and ended with Audley spending an unclerical night in a priests hole with the skeleton’s pneumatic daughter (Carmen Du Sautoy).

    The series was based on the acclaimed series of espionage novels by Anthony Price but had the look of a low-rent le Carré.

    Apparently, Stamp did not want to work in television and only accepted the role because he needed the money. It shows.

    Dr David Audley
    Terence Stamp
    Faith Steerforth
    Carmen Du Sautoy
    Nick Hannah
    Michael Culver
    Hugh Roskill
    Robin Sachs
    Sir Alec Russell
    John Horsley
    Theo Friesler
    Oscar Quitak

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