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Ashenden

  • 1991
  • Ended
  • ~55m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 6.0/10

Four-part drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British intelligence during the First World War. Based on the writings of Somerset Maugham

Latest: Season 1 · 1991

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  1. E1. The Dark Woman

    Nov 17, 1991 · 55m

    A traitorous actress is pressured by threats into enticing her terrorist lover to leave the safety of neutral Switzerland and join her in France, an ally of England.

  2. E2. The Traitor

    Nov 24, 1991 · 55m

    A quiet Englishman, Caypor, has chosen to spend the war in Switzerland, as his wife is German. But Ashenden suspects he may be a spy, and may have to be killed.

  3. E3. Mister Harrington's Washing

    Dec 1, 1991 · 55m

    Ashenden is sent to revolutionary Russia with funds for delivery to Kerensky, the Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government, who England supports.

  4. E4. The Hairless Mexican

    Dec 8, 1991 · 55m

    Ashenden is joined by an eccentric assassin known as "the hairless Mexican" who is dangerous.