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A Perfect Spy is a BBC serial adaptation of John le Carré's 1986 spy novel A Perfect Spy which was aired on BBC2 and broadcast from 4 November to 16 December 1987. It follows the career of the British MI6 spy Magnus Pym from his early days as a schoolboy to his eventual disappearance as a suspected agent of the Czech secret service.
A Perfect Spy: With Ray McAnally, Rüdiger Weigang, Alan Howard, Peter Egan. The rise and fall of Magnus Pym and his career through intelligence. From chance meetings with people will be important to him in the future to a life in Czechoslovakia, Pym weaves his way through the complicated world of espionage.
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- 1987-11-04
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John le Carré, BBC, A Perfect Spy, TV. "A Perfect Spy (1986) is a novel by British author John le Carré about the mental and moral dissolution of a high-level intelligence-officer.
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A Perfect Spy traces the rise and fall of Magnus Pym and his career through intelligence. From chance meetings with people will be important to him in the future to a life in Czechoslovakia, Washington and finally on the run in England Pym weaves his way through the complicated world of espionage.
A Perfect Spy. 1 season• 1987• Ended. Drama, Thriller. Spy serial in seven episodes from the novel by John Le Carre. Pym has disappeared, setting off a massive man-hunt. One of Britain's top spies, Pym is also searching - for his true identity, hidden beneath a lifetime of deception.
A Perfect Spy is a drama series based on the life of Magnus Pym, a double agent who spied for the Soviets and the West. Watch all seven episodes online or find out what's next on BBC Four.
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Nov 4, 1987 · Peter Egan stars as Magnus Pym in a dramatisation of the John Le Carré novel about a top spy who goes missing. First broadcast on the BBC in 1987, A Perfect Spy is a painfully honest account of a father-and-son relationship and a brilliant study of a man’s infinite capacity for betrayal.
