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19761 Season25m episodes8.0

Mystery

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Runtime: 25m episodes
Genre: Mystery
Origin: GB

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A gritty six-part mystery thriller serial from 1976, starring John Gregson as Bill Kirby. Bill is an insurance salesman travelling back to the UK from France. Accompanied by Laura Marshall (Prunella Ransome), he has to evade the two armed agents that are following him. A series of murders follow and Bill tries to unmask who's behind them.

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Director: Alan Gibson
Writing: N.J. Crisp
Status: Ended
First aired: May 19, 1976
Studio: Southern Television

Time to finish

3 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Cast

John Gregson

Bill Kirby

Prunella Ransome

Laura Marshall

Patrick Allen

Fane

Ruth Trouncer

Claire

Ralph Bates

Sanders

SERIES

Dangerous Knowledge

19761 Season25m episodes8.0

Mystery

TMDB8.0

Votes2

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Runtime: 25m episodes
Genre: Mystery
Origin: GB

About

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E1 · Airs May 19, 1976 · 25m
Comprehensive Cover
Kirby tries to avoid a pair of suspicious-looking men whom he first observed on the Channel ferry from Le Havre. By scooping up a pretty young woman's luggage, he manages to elude them long enough to arrive at her marina, where he convinces her to take him across the Solent before they both come to harm at the strangers' hands.
E2 · Airs May 26, 1976 · 25m
A Deadly Policy
Roger Fane complements Laura Marshall, his step-daughter, on the way she kept tabs on Bill Kirby after he left the Channel Ferry and asks her to maintain contact. He explains that he fears that Kirby has learned something vital that could be put to use to the detriment of the British government if he chooses to pass it on the wrong hands. Kirby takes a leave of absence from the his job as an insurance salesman. After failing to make contact with the intelligence community using a go-between, he discovers a friend on a rural road with a bullet in the back of his head.
E3 · Airs Jun 2, 1976 · 25m
Clause for Concern
A key contact of Kirby's is found shot dead, returning to France he discover the dead man had links to the KGB.
E4 · Airs Jun 9, 1976 · 25m
Death Risk
Kirby obtains evidence that a key advisor to the British was a trained as Russian KGB agent and enters into negotiations with an American who implies he's working for the CIA. Kirby doesn't entirely trust the man, but agrees to secret rendezvous to exchange the information he's gathered. Meanwhile Roger Fane orders Laura to have no more dealings with Kirby, whom he regards as a potential traitor.
E5 · Airs Jun 16, 1976 · 25m
Surrender Value
Kirby staggers home after being wounded at an intended rendezvous. He sends his son, Robin, to convince Laura not to return to school for the next term immediately and join him in an attempt to convince her stepfather that a dangerous traitor is serving as one of his key security advisers.
E6 · Airs Jun 23, 1976 · 25m
Dividends
Kirby, Fane, Vincent and Laura travel to Normandy to listen to Madame Lafois' claims that Fane's American political adviser is actually an undercover Soviet agent, but learn that the old woman died after meeting with Kirby the previous weekend. Fane accuses Kirby of defaming Vincent and killing the French informant himself. The real traitors then force the rest of the party onto a remote beach with plans to kill them all.

Details

Director: Alan Gibson
Writing: N.J. Crisp
Status: Ended
First aired: May 19, 1976
Studio: Southern Television

Time to finish

3 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

John Gregson

Bill Kirby

Prunella Ransome

Laura Marshall

Patrick Allen

Fane

Ruth Trouncer

Claire

Ralph Bates

Sanders

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