Ashenden
1991 · 1 season · 4 episodes · Ended
TMDB 6.0 · 1 votes
Four-part drama about a writer recruited into espionage work by British intelligence during the First World War. Based on the writings of Somerset Maugham
Episodes
- S01E01The Dark Woman1991-11-1755m
A traitorous actress is pressured by threats into enticing her terrorist lover to leave the safety of neutral Switzerland and join her in France, an ally of England.
- S01E02The Traitor1991-11-2455m
A quiet Englishman, Caypor, has chosen to spend the war in Switzerland, as his wife is German. But Ashenden suspects he may be a spy, and may have to be killed.
- S01E03Mister Harrington's Washing1991-12-0155m
Ashenden is sent to revolutionary Russia with funds for delivery to Kerensky, the Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government, who England supports.
- S01E04The Hairless Mexican1991-12-0855m
Ashenden is joined by an eccentric assassin known as "the hairless Mexican" who is dangerous.
