Crime / Drama
British undercover agent Harry Brown is sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA to find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. Harry is alone, the army hasn't been told he is being put in place, his wife is fed up with him and his job, and his sole…


After the IRA shoot down a cabinet minister in front of his London home, the government send SAS man Harry Brown undercover to Dublin to track down the killer against the advice of the army and intelligence.

While Harry begins a relationship with a local girl, the Special Branch launch their own investigation, which leads to a young woman's suicide. The IRA learn about Harry via a careless remark made by Colonel Frost in a restaurant.

Harry learns the identity of the assassin, but with the IRA on his tail, targeting all of his known associates, he finds it hard to complete his mission.

Harry Brown

Davidson

Bannen

Colonel George Frost

Inspector Howard Rennie

Billy Downes

Mrs Downes

David McCallum stars as the rebellious Alan Breck Stewart, and this ambitious serial (a co-production between HTV and Germany's Tele-Munchen) also features a host of British character actors, including Bill Simpson, Patrick Allen, Andrew Keir, Patrick Magee and Frank Windsor. When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance, his relative tries to murder him then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Luckily for the lad, he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck Stewart, who is on the run after Bonnie Prince Charlie's defeat at Culloden. When a ship's captain tries to kill Breck for his money, the two manage to get to land and set out for Edinburgh, dodging the ruthless Redcoats along the way.

Nikita is a drug-addicted juvenile delinquent who was accused of killing a police officer in cold blood during an attempted robbery of a pharmacy. She is later arrested and sentenced to death by lethal injection, upon which she was secretly drugged by the government, faking her death. Nikita is then "recruited" by a secret government organization and transformed into a highly skilled assassin who cannot be traced.
Josephine Laverty

Seamus Duffryn

IRA Brigade Commander
Billy's Driver
Mrs Duncan