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''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' is a 1979 seven-part drama spy mini-series made by BBC TV. John Irvin directed and Jonathan Powell produced this adaptation of John le Carré's novel ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' (1974). The mini-series, which stars Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell, and Michael Aldridge, was shown in the United Kingdom from 10 September to 22 October 1979 and in the United States beginning on 29 September 1980. In the US, syndicated broadcasts and DVD releases compressed the seven-part UK episodes into six, by shortening scenes and altering the narrative sequence. In the UK original, Smiley visits Connie Sachs ''before'' Peter Guillam's burglary of the Circus, while the US version reverses the sequence of these events, in line with the time sequence of the novel. ==Plot== George Smiley (Guinness), deputy head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, is forced into retirement in the wake of "Operation Testify", a failed spy mission to Czechoslovakia. Veteran British agent Jim Prideaux (Bannen) had been sent to meet with a Czech general he's been told has information identifying a deep-cover Soviet spy planted in the highest echelons of British Secret Intelligence Service, known as the Circus because of its headquarters at Cambridge Circus in London. The mission proves to be a trap, and Prideaux is captured and brutally tortured by the Soviets. Britain's chief spymaster, known only as "Control", is disgraced and soon replaced for his role in ''Testify'' by Percy Alleline (Aldridge). Control's obsession with the Soviet mole was not shared by others in the Circus. On the contrary, it is the British who believe ''they'' have a mole working for them in "Moscow Centre", passing them highly classified information code-named "Operation Witchcraft". Fears of a mole are revived when Ricki Tarr (Bennett), a British agent gone missing in Portugal, turns up in England with new evidence backing up Control's theory whilst not actually identifying the mole. Control had narrowed down the list of suspects to four men – Roy Bland, Toby Esterhase, Bill Haydon, and Percy Alleline – all of whom occupy high positions in the Circus. Knowing the covert Soviet spy enjoys considerable influence in the Circus, the British cannot trust their top spy masters to uncover the mole or even let them know of the investigation. Instead, Smiley is recalled to hunt the mole down. Under instruction from Oliver Lacon, the civil servant responsible for overseeing the intelligence services, Smiley begins a secret investigation into the events surrounding Operation Testify, believing it will lead him to the identity of the mole, whom Smiley calls "Gerald". With the help of his still-serving protégé Guillam, he gradually uncovers an ingenious plot, as well as the ultimate betrayal – of country, of the service, and of friendship. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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