Smiley's People

Name: Smiley's People
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Rating: 8.4
Cast: Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate

Smiley's People (1982)

Seasons: 1, episodes: 6

Episode runtime: 50 min

Average rating: 8.4/10 5 928

—
no scores

7.7/10
56

8.5/10
5400

Rate the series:

All about the series

Video 1

Photo 10

Actors and characters

Video for the series Smiley's People — Smiley's People trailer

1:53

Photo 10

Premiere

1982-09-20

Last episode

1982-10-25

Status

Ended

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Network

BBC Two

Production

BBC, Paramount Television Studios

Genre

Drama, Mystery

Website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04xvygv

Creators

John le Carré

Actors

Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate, Ingrid Pitt, Michael Byrne, Vladek Sheybal, Andy Bradford, Tusse Silberg
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

John le Carré, John Hopkins

Producer

Jonathan Powell

Operator

Kenneth MacMillan

Composer

Editing

Chris Wimble, Clare Douglas
All team (13)

Short description

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.

Seasons

Season	Episodes	Release date	Rating
Miniseries 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 pe…	6	1982-09-20	7.4