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    Drama TV Shows - 1980s 2 Mins Read

    Smiley’s People

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    Alec Guinness returned in this sequel to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy as the disillusioned intelligence chief George Smiley, coaxed out of retirement to help deal with the murder of ‘the General’, an old colleague from ‘The Circus’ with some valuable information.

    His investigation leads to an old nemesis, the Soviet spymaster and Smiley’s KGB opposite number known only as Karla (Patrick Stewart). But it was Beryl Reid who won a BAFTA Best Actress award for her cameo role of Connie Sachs.

    While the earlier series was set mostly in London, with sections in Czechoslovakia and Portugal, the new story mostly takes place in Paris, Germany and Switzerland, with Smiley closing in on Karla by finding an unexpected weak spot while investigating the death of an ex-agent.

    The pace across the six one-hour episodes was occasionally a little too stately, meaning the main plot took a little too long to come into focus. During the original airing of the series on BBC television, radio DJ Terry Wogan ran a “Does anyone know what’s going on?” competition on a weekly basis – which amused author John le Carré greatly.

    George Smiley
    Alec Guinness
    Madame Ostrakova 
    Eileen Atkins
    Lauder Strickland 
    Bill Paterson
    Otto Leipzig
    Vladek Sheybal
    Ferguson
    Andy Bradford
    Toby Esterhase 
    Bernard Hepton
    Peter Guillam 
    Michael Byrne
    Alexandra Ostrakova
    Tusse Silberg
    Oliver Lacon
    Anthony Bate
    Madame La Pierre
    Germaine Delbat
    Claus Kretzschmar 
    Mario Adorf
    The General
    Curd Jürgens
    Anton Grigoriev
    Michael Lonsdale
    Saul Enderby 
    Barry Foster
    Mikhel 
    Michael Gough
    Oleg Kirov
    Dudley Sutton
    Connie Sachs
    Beryl Reid
    Karla
    Patrick Stewart

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