Codename (1970)
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Cast & Crew.
Clifford Evans
Sir Iain Dalzell
Alexandra Bastedo
Diana Dalzell
Brian Peck
Culliford
Anthony Valentine
Philip West
Brian Peck
Culliford
Brian Peck
Culliford
Bill Hays
Writer
David Sullivan Proudfoot
Writer
Robin Browne
Monitor / Policeman
David Prowse
Bodyguard
John Savident
Largo
John Savident
Largo
Desmond Llewelyn
Barrett
Kate O'Mara
Helen Lingard
Viktors Ritelis
Director
Gerard Glaister
Director
Peter Graham Scott
Director
Tony Williamson
Writer
Mervyn Haisman
Writer
David T. Chantler
Writer
Henry Lincoln
Writer
George Pravda
Kaldor
Richard Heffer
Gregor
Tenniel Evans
Linton
Jean Anderson
Penelope Blanshard
Patrick Allen
Morgan
Noel Johnson
Melton
Brian Oulton
Harrison
Elaine Ives-Cameron
Russian Woman
Norman Shelley
Charles
Vernon Dobtcheff
Herman Voss
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
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This TV Show Is About.
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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, the show 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.