Codename (1970)
Codename (1970)

Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Alexandra Bastedo
Diana Dalzell

Clifford Evans
Sir Iain Dalzell

Anthony Valentine
Philip West

Brian Peck
Culliford

Bill Hays
Creator

Brian Peck
Culliford

David Sullivan Proudfoot
Creator / Director

Robin Browne
Monitor

Viktors Ritelis
Director

Gerard Glaister
Director

Peter Graham Scott
Director

Tony Williamson
Writer

David T. Chantler
Writer

Mervyn Haisman
Writer

Henry Lincoln
Writer

George Pravda
Kaldor

Richard Heffer
Gregor

Tenniel Evans
Linton

Jean Anderson
Penelope Blanshard

Patrick Allen
Morgan

David Prowse
Bodyguard

Noel Johnson
Melton

Brian Oulton
Harrison

Desmond Llewelyn
Barrett

Elaine Ives-Cameron
Russian Woman

Norman Shelley
Charles

Vernon Dobtcheff
Herman Voss

John Savident
Largo

Roy Boyd
Anton

Hildegard Neil
Zeta Baker

George Roderick
Security Officer

John Woodnutt
Colonel Field

Richard Hurndall
Arturo

Barry Dennen
Kirby

Tom Watson
Plumper

Roger Delgado
Rogov

Terence Alexander
Thorens

Geoffrey Toone
Karl Dickinson

Derek Francis
Vaslva Baroviev

Bill Treacher
Taxi Driver
Details.
This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
Codename was a short-lived British television series produced by the BBC in 1970.
An espionage thriller series, Codename recounted the activities of a secret organisation, MI17, being run from a residential hall at Cambridge University. The programme, lasting for one series of thirteen episodes, was produced by Gerard Glaister and starred Clifford Evans, Alexandra Bastedo, Anthony Valentine and Brian Peck. It was preceded by a one-off pilot play, with a different cast.
The leads were well known from other series when this series was originally transmitted, Valentine from Callan, Bastedo from The Champions and Evans from The Power Game, and the first episode featured on the cover of the Radio Times. However, unlike its rival Callan on ITV, Codename failed to capture the public imagination, and no further series were made.
No episodes survive in the BBC archive, though there is a recording of the pilot.