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Line 1: {{work}} What do you mean, you've never heard of [[wikipedia:Sidney Reilly\|Sidney ~~Reill[[Category:TV Series]~~Reilly]]? Well, I suppose most espionage authors haven't heard of one of the most famous real spies of the early 20th century either ([[Ian ~~Flemin[[Category:TV Series]~~Fleming]] did though...). A 1983 [[ITV]] 12-episode [[~~Miniserie[[Category:TV Series]~~Miniseries]], exec produced by [[Verity ~~Lamber[[Category:TV Series]~~Lambert]] and based on a book about Reilly's life by the son of one of the main characters. Much of Reilly's life is unclear (he was a master of deception) and the accuracy varies- some of the stuff is debated by historians, especially the "Zinoviev Letter". It covers Reilly from 1901 to 1910, then moves to [[An Arc]] involving the "Ambassador's Plot" against the Bolshevik government in Russia in 1918. Sam Neill plays the titular character and this reads a lot like a [[James Bond (film)\|James Bond]] audition tape- he was later screen-tested for ''[[The Living ~~Daylight[[Category:TV Series]~~Daylights]]''. Not a bad series, actually, although possibly a bit slow to 2010 tastes. Line 12: ---- {{tropelist}} * [[Anti-~~Her[[Category:TV Series]~~Hero]]{{context}} * [[Arms ~~Deale[[Category:TV Series]~~Dealer]]{{context}} * [[The Blofeld ~~Plo[[Category:TV Series]~~Ploy]]{{context}} * [[Fake ~~Russia[[Category:TV Series]~~Russian]]: Bucket-loads. * [[Firing Squad]]: With a machine-gun. * [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Rumpole of the Bailey deals arms and [[Blake's 7\|~~Call[[Category:TV Series]~~Cally]] gets machine-gunned. * [[The ~~Pla[[Category:TV Series]~~Plan]]: {{spoiler\|The Cheka decide to create an organisation that will put all the anti-Bolsheviks under one roof- where they control it. It almost works, until Stalin decides that it's too dangerous to run and arrests its members}}. * [[Spy ~~Dram[[Category:TV Series]~~Drama]] * [[Television ~~Geograph[[Category:TV Series]~~Geography]]: The opening map is out of date in 1901, let alone 1925. * [[Translation ~~Conventio[[Category:TV Series]~~Convention]]: All spoken dialogue is in British-accented English. Written stuff is in its original language. {{reflist}} [[Category:British ~~Serie[[Category:TV~~ Series]]] [[Category:~~Miniserie[[Category:TV Series]~~Miniseries]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Historical ~~Serie[[Category:TV~~ Series]]] [[Category:Live-Action TV of the ~~1980[[Category:TV Series]~~1980s]] ~~[[Category:Western Animatio~~[[Category:TV Series]]]