Len Deighton (Writer)

Wogan

Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

Release Date1982-05-04

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Episode Count1

Vote Count6

The Case of Sherlock Holmes

Tim Piggot-Smith investigates the famous sleuth of 221b Baker Street.

Release Date1987-12-10

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SS-GB

Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.

Release Date2017-02-19

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count5

Vote Count64

The Ipcress File

As the Cold War rages, ex-smuggler turned reluctant spy Harry Palmer finds himself at the centre of a dangerous undercover mission, on which he must use his links to find a missing British nuclear scientist.

Release Date2022-03-06

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count6

Vote Count62

Game, Set, and Match

Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major (Gottfried John) to defect, using his childhood friend Verner Volkmann's wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.

Release Date1988-10-03

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count13

Vote Count4

Funeral in Berlin

Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to want to defect but the evidence is contradictory. Stok wants the British to handle his defection and asks for one of their agents, Harry Palmer, to smuggle him out of East Germany.

Release Date1966-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count146

The Ipcress File

Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.

Release Date1965-03-18

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count322

Billion Dollar Brain

A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?

Release Date1967-11-02

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count103

Bullet to Beijing

When long-time British agent Harry Palmer loses his job because the Cold War is over, he's promptly approached by a Russian bossman, Alex. In St. Petersburg Alex tells Harry of his plan for Russia's future, which is threatened because a deadly biochemical weapon called the Red Death has been stolen from him. He'll pay Harry handsomely to retrieve it. An ex-spy friend tips Harry off that it's being sent to Beijing by train, aboard which we begin to learn whose side everyone's really on.

Release Date1995-12-20

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JobCharacters

Vote Count33

Oh! What a Lovely War

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.

Release Date1969-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count46

Midnight in Saint Petersburg

Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov, ex-CIA agent Craig, and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky. They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.

Release Date1996-10-17

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count32

Only When I Larf

A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

Release Date1968-05-27

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count4

Spy Story

A nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications and electronic warfare techniques in the Arctic Ocean to find that his flat has been broken into and mysteriously re-decorated.

Release Date1976-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

Long Past Glory

Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They're joined by a younger man who disrupts their dreary small talk with angry, upsetting arguments.

Release Date1963-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter