First broadcast 22nd October `1979.
'I still believe that the Secret Services are the only real expression of a nation's character. Until the mid-50s. I still had hopes...lingering loyalty to what we represented...sheer delusion, of course. We were already America's street-walkers.'
George Smiley: Alec Guinness
Peter Guillam: Michael Jayston
Lacon: Anthony Bate
Mendel: George Sewell
Ricki Tarr: Hywel Bennett
Roy Bland: Terence Rigby
Bill Haydon: Ian Richardson
Percy Alleline: Michael Aldridge
Toby Esterhase: Bernard Hepton
Jim Prideaux: Ian Bannen
Ann Smiley: Sian Phillips
Polyakov: George Pravda
Fawn: Alec Sabin
Roach: Duncan Jones
Spikely: Daniel Beecher
