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Former special-forces operative John Neil (Dennis Waterman, New Tricks, The Sweeney) remains on call for the brass at Britain’s security services. Whether taking on Irish terrorists, tracking down professional assassins, or pitting his wits against ruthless drug dealers, the ex-SAS man harbours no illusions about the work he’s doing--or the people he serves. He faces down deadly adversaries as well as devious bosses who keep him on a need-to-know basis, forcing Neil to rely on his instincts and his training in a world of betrayal, danger, and deceit.
Top British actors guest star in these four feature-length dramas, including Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius), John Hannah (The Mummy), Peter Vaughan (The Remains of the Day), Kate Buffery (Trial & Retribution), Clare Higgins (Silent Witness), and Leo McKern (Rumpole of the Bailey).
Circles of Deceit is a British television thriller series, produced by Yorkshire Television, first broadcast on ITV on 16 October 1993. The series stars Dennis Waterman as John Neil, a former serving officer in the Special Air Service, who works as a private investigator for the Secret Service. A total of four episodes were broadcast, including a single feature-length self-titled pilot in 1993 (which I am unable to track down), and a series of three episodes, filmed in 1995, and broadcast between 1995 and 1996. Although broadcast as the final episode of the series, Sleeping Dogs is set chronologically after the events of the self-titled pilot (which was re-titled The Wolves are Howling for disambiguation reasons on repeat broadcasts and home video release).
Aside from Neil, the only other character to appear in all four films was the Controller. In the pilot, (which I am unable to track down) this role was assumed by Derek Jacobi (under the pseudonym of Randal). For the series, Jacobi was replaced by Susan Jameson. The only other recurring character throughout the series was Andy, a wheelchair-using researcher and collator, played by Dave Hill. A VHS video of the self-titled pilot was released in the United States in 1994. The complete series was later released on Region 1 DVD in the United States by Acorn Media on 17 May 2011. On 23 April 2018, nearly twenty-five years after the broadcast of the self-titled pilot, the complete series was released on Region 2 DVD in the United Kingdom by Strawberry Media.
Series (1995—1996)
No.
overall No. in
series Title Directed by Written by Original air date
2 1 "Sleeping Dogs" Alan Grint Story: Jill Arlon
Screenplay: John Brown 23 December 1996
Neil is asked to meet with retired KGB officer Alexander Petrov (Leo McKern), who has approached the service claiming that he has highly classified information that he wishes to sell on to pay for a triple heart bypass. Petrov refuses to give in easily, but provides Neil with the names of two sleeper agents, Annie Shepherd (Frances Barber) and Bill Roper (Bill Armstrong) as an 'introductory offer'. But while Neil sets about tracking down Shepherd and Roper, Petrov is murdered after suffering a heart attack whilst being tortured, and Roper is later found dead having suffered a broken neck. Whilst trying to protect Annie, Neil finds he has become the target of a German hitman, Hans Schroder (Nicholas Jones), who believes him to have been responsible for Petrov's death. With Schroder's help, Neil's investigation leads him to uncover that two rogue members of the IRA are trying to recruit members of Petrov's former cell to carry out a targeted attack on a summit being attended by Ministers of the Soviet.
Although broadcast as the final episode of the series, "Sleeping Dogs" is chronologically set following the events of "The Wolves are Coming".
3 2 "Dark Secret" Nick Laughland Story: Jill Arlon
Screenplay: Barry Appleton 27 December 1995
Neil is asked to monitor one of his former SAS colleagues, Jim Caine (Sean McGinley), whom the Secret Service suspect of involvement in a safe deposit box robbery. After learning that Caine is using information from documents stolen in the robbery to commit blackmail, the service have deemed him a threat to national security, and Neil's task is to find out who he is blackmailing. Neil uses Caine's partner Kate (Kate Buffery) to gain a way in, and discovers that Caine's target is none other than Harry Summers (Corin Redgrave), an ambitious member of Parliament who has a history of run-ins with the security services. Neil discovers that Summers' assistant Sarah Ellis (Holly Aird) has hired a South African hitman, Eugene Travis (Joe Montana) to target those who have become privy to the true identity of Summers' father, a wanted war criminal who eloped from Germany in 1949 and used false documents to obtain British citizenship. But before Neil can investigate further, he is ordered off the case by his superiors.
4 3 "Kalon" Peter Barber-Fleming Story: Jill Arlon
Screenplay: Ray Jenkins 8 April 1996
When Major Robert Turner (Nicholas Pritchard) is found shot through the head outside the army base where he was stationed, Neil's superiors task him to uncover the identity of the killer. Neil's investigations lead him to Jason Sturden (John Hannah), assistant to crooked merchant banker Brendan Rylands (Simon Cadell), the senior partner of Cottrill's, a highly lucrative private bank situated in the heart of London's financial district. Neil discovers that Rylands is the mastermind of a drug-smuggling and money-laundering ring involving Japanese banker Osuna (Jack Klaff), wealthy Hungarian property developer Paric (Constantine Gregory), and a serving officer in the Royal Air Force, Alec Dwyer (Struan Rodger). Neil struggles to work out how their operation is connected to Turner's death, but his main priority soon switches to the safety of Turner's girlfriend, Liz Baker (Saskia Wickham), a serving officer in the British Army, whose police protection has aroused the suspicions of Rylands and his associates.
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