Plot
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
Cast
as George Smiley
as Oliver Lacon
as Connie Sachs
as Ferguson
as Alexandra Ostrakova
as Madame La Pierre
as Claus Kretzschmar
as Anton Grigoriev
as Mikhel
as Mr. Brownlow
Creator
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
September 20, 1982
Last Aired Date
October 25, 1982
Production Companies
BBC
Paramount Pictures
Type
Miniseries
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
6
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Reviews
When "Madame Ostrakova" (Eileen Atkins) is accosted by a man as she tries to board a bus, we discover that she has a secret Soviet past that saw her flee, leaving her daughter in Moscow. Faced with a difficult choice, she contacts the one man who might be able to help. That's "Gen. Vladimir" (Curd Jürgens) who just happens to have some links with the once again retired "Smiley" (Sir Alec Guinness…