Circles Of Deceit (1996) 1/3 "Sleeping Dogs" (Dennis Waterman, Leo McKern) TV Crime Thriller KGB IRA
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- (Although broadcast as the final episode of the series, "Sleeping Dogs" is chronologically set following the events of "The Wolves are Coming" - the 1993 pilot episode with Derek Jacobi.)
Neil is asked to meet with retired KGB officer Alexander Petrov (Leo McKern), who has approached the service claiming that he has highly classified information that he wishes to sell on to pay for a triple heart bypass.
(Plot spoilers from here)
Petrov refuses to give in easily, but provides Neil with the names of two sleeper agents, Annie Shepherd (Frances Barber) and Bill Roper (Bill Armstrong) as an 'introductory offer'.
But while Neil sets about tracking down Shepherd and Roper, Petrov is murdered after suffering a heart attack whilst being tortured, and Roper is later found dead having suffered a broken neck.
Whilst trying to protect Annie, Neil finds he has become the target of a German hitman, Hans Schroder (Nicholas Jones), who believes him to have been responsible for Petrov's death. With Schroder's help, Neil's investigation leads him to uncover that two rogue members of the IRA are trying to recruit members of Petrov's former cell to carry out a targeted attack on a summit being attended by Ministers of the Soviet.
First broadcast 23rd December 1996.
Cast:
Dennis Waterman as John Neil
Susan Jameson as Controller
Leo McKern as Alexander Petrov
Frances Barber as Annie Shepherd
Paul Freeman as Armitage
Nicholas Jones as Schroeder
Bill Armstrong as Bill Roper
Lalor Roddy as Mark Grady
Ian Fitzgibbon as Tony Lynch
James Aubrey as George Grant
IMDB page for full cast and other contributors:
www.imdb.com/title/tt1003266/... - Zábava
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Thanks what a great show. PEACE AND LOVE TO EVERYONE ❤❤.
Would love to see the other episodes?, very good series indeed!
They will follow over the next two Saturdays - around 8pm UK time.
3:38 ''We don't use ranks,'' Ooooh, nice hat-tip from the writer to The Professionals! 👍👍👍👍
Wasn't Cowley the boss?
Brilliant many thanks 👍
Super Thank you😊
Oh the days 😮 of the bad guy always Very conspicuous wearing sunglasses at night time😂😂
Ha!
Excellent !!!
Terry and Rumpole. Nice.
But the execs chose not to run with it as new series!
@@FoogouFilmsOh, well ...
Dear Foogou, is there a guy playing the part of a chauffeur in one episode? Actor called Neville Roby? He told me that he was in this during the making of it.. great pal of mine!
A quick search didn't come up with him in Ciorcles of Deceit, though of course he might turn up in one of the remaining to episodes, but not credited. I can see a Neville Roby that appears as "Military type" in an episode of Red Dwarf called Better Than Life, S2, Ep2. Possibly the same one? I's give you the links but CZcams doesn't like it. Hope you manage to see him as the chauffeur.
Excellent thanks 👍 @@FoogouFilms
Frances Barber, man -- what a doll.
And the voice...
@@robwilde855 Breathtaking, that.
can you put the other two episodes on please...says this is one of three.Thanks
Will be shown over the next two Saturdays, 8pm UK time.
Pilot episode brilliant a well..
Dennis Waterman & Susan Jameson from ''New Tricks"🥰
You're right. Full points!
@@FoogouFilms You will find Alun Armstrong in ''A Bridge Too Far'' 1977, as an Airborne Trooper holding a chicken before the big drop! It's a brief moment, he only shows up once more in the film!🤣
I just wrote the same without seeing your comment.
Leo McKern and Nicholas Jones both from the Rumpole series. Nicholas Jones made a more convincing twat of a barrister than an ex-Stasi agent.
Very good. One ,more episode to come?
Or Sydney Opera house, or herds of wilderbeasts majestically.........
Waterman without a Cockney accent is very strange …🤣🤣
Oh my good gawd, yes!
Jeremy Aldermartin QC and tough ass stasis spy? 🤣
Jeremy Aldermarten QC...... and tough guy West German Stasis spy?! No! 😂
Dennis waterman and Susan Jamieson.
Both from new tricks. Coincidence or what?
I never could stomach Dennis Waterman in Minder or New Tricks as his acting always seemed forced and his accent too cockney or whatever. But in this he was okay and his mire refined way of speaking suited him and made him much more tolerable. He even didn’t over act.
I thought the same.
I have to agree. He's no actor. A good co-star, he was well matched with John Thaw in the Sweeney but he's no leading actor.
He has the same diction as John Thaw from his previous series.
Im really confused as to which one to watch first
1:23:51. Looks like Frost's Sierra.
Never actually seen Frost. Everyone wants the Cosworths, so you don't seem many preserved bread-and-butter Sierras about now on the classics scene.
@@FoogouFilms True that.
MAN! That was a good show
1993
I'm going by IB which states 1996. However, chronologically speaking, this one should have been shown after the 1993 pilot episode, but was possibly delayed due to sensitivity over the Northern Ireland political situation of the time.
48:27. Capri: The Car Every Hero Always Promised Himself ...
I fall short on heroics, but I did have a red 1982 Capri, with chocolate brown draylon seats (!) in the '90s - similar to that one of Waterman's. Like so many, it rusted away, then replaced by an '86 Mk2 Golf Gti.
@FoogouFilms Oh, wow. If I were still living in Great Britain, I probably would have gotten one myself. Did you have the 2.8 or a plain four banger?
@@johndrake2729 Only the latter, sadly. Couldn't afford the insurance on the 2.8.
@@FoogouFilms Gotcha. Four bangers still sound dope.
One wonders if the Capri here was a nod to the Minder days.
@@johndrake2729 Ha, you could be right. Maybe it was his rider for doing the series!
1:30:22 and 1:31:32. "Apprehended"???
Hmmm.
Corn on the cob
It was about this time period that I stopped watching tv due to my job, looks like I have not missed much. I take it he is playing an ex special forces working for a security arm of the Government, didn't train him very well, did they? Obviously the production team were told they had to tell the story in three episodes which is why it went from the cottage to Paris in a blink of the eye, they had to stick to the schedule and so am I, I gave myself 42 minutes, that's enough.
Twenty minutes in, it dawned on me that the British writing and acting is every bit as bad as Canadian acting and writing. The dark days of tv and movies! 😂😂
Interested to know where you think the best country for acting is.
Shite, pure shite, nearly kicked the tv through the wall😢
Didn’t like it just switch it off save the tv and wall
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"
Wonderful dialogue!
@@AnnabelleJARankin WHAT IS WIT NIT ?
@@fredflintstoner596 Where is 'wit nit'?
@@fredflintstoner596 Do you mean nitwit?
@@AnnabelleJARankin THE HORSE IS DRAGONFLY YOUR'E THE NIT WIT !