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Frederick Forsyth Presents

Frederick Forsyth Presents

★ 8.0/10•1989•Drama
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Frederick Forsyth, the celebrated novelist behind classics like The Day of the Jackal and The Negotiator, presents six original and gripping spy thrillers written solely for the small screen.

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateDec 2, 1989

Episodes

E197m

A Casualty of War

Libya is preparing to ship arms to the Provisional IRA, and McCready sends Tom Rowse, a former SAS officer who is now a novelist, to Libya under the cover of researching a book. Rowse makes contact with the Libyan arms dealer and adds an order to the shipment. The SIS can then identify the cargo ship, and McCready enlists the help of the Special Boat Service to intercept it. Monica, a woman Rowse is strongly attracted to, proves to be mixed up with the gun-runners and is shot dead when the ship is boarded.

Dec 2, 1989

E280m

Just Another Secret

An American intelligence agent investigates the sudden disappearance of a colleague who was stationed in East Berlin. He finds a conspiracy to murder a Soviet politician.

Dec 9, 1989

E397m

Pride and Extreme Prejudice

A Soviet general offers the SIS important military documents, and a meeting is set up in East Germany, with McCready in charge of the operation.

Dec 16, 1989

E496m

A Little Piece of Sunshine

Sunshine, an island in the British West Indies, is about to become independent, but shortly before the handover, in the middle of a bitterly fought presidential election campaign, the British governor is shot dead. Sam McCready of SIS sends in Desmond Hannah of Scotland Yard.

Nov 17, 1990

E5

Death Has a Bad Reputation

The French government expels dozens of Soviet diplomats, and Rodimstev, head of the KGB, forms an alliance with Carlos the Jackal to punish France. Sam McCready works to hinder them, going outside the law and the rules of his department. He has his own grudge match with Carlos, as his son Nick McCready was disabled in a terrorist attack.

Nov 24, 1990

E6

The Price of the Bride

While on a Soviet Military Intelligence visit to Britain, a Russian contacts the CIA station in London, wishing to defect to the US, claiming to be Colonel Pyotr Orlov of the KGB. Orlov's information leads to the arrest of several Soviet spies around the world and also gives insights into the Soviets' military planning. But McCready senses that something is wrong, and the head of the KGB's London office, who works for McCready under the name of Keepsake, claims that Orlov is not a defector at all, but a KGB plant.

Dec 8, 1990

Actors

Alan Howard

Alan Howard

Sam McCready

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