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.
Creator: John le Carré
Network: BBC Two
Seasons
1
Episodes
6
Status
Ended
Alec Guinness
George Smiley
Eileen Atkins
Madame Ostrakova
Bill Paterson
Lauder Strickland
Vladek Sheybal
Otto Leipzig
Andy Bradford
Ferguson
Bernard Hepton
Toby Esterhase
Anthony Bate
Oliver Lacon
Michael Byrne
Peter Guillam