Title: Smiley's People
Genre: Drama, Mystery
First aired: 1982-09-20
Creator: John le Carré
Cast: Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate, Ingrid Pitt, Michael Byrne, Beryl Reid, Vladek Sheybal, Andy Bradford, Tusse Silberg, Germaine Delbat, Mario Adorf, Curd Jürgens, Michael Lonsdale, Barry Foster, Michael Gough, Patrick Stewart, Alan Rickman
Overview: 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.