Starring: Alec Guinness, Joss Ackland, Michael Aldridge, Ian Bannen, Anthony Bate, Bernard Hepton, George Sewell Directed by: John IrvinWho can spy on the spies? Some say George Smiley is in innocent retirement. Others say he was sacked after a Czech scandal. But all agree that nobody ever leaves the "circus" without some unfinished business. Brought out of retirement to trace an enemy infiltrator in the department where he was once the prize employee, the shy and retiring master of espionage moves forwards to investigate and finds himself going backwards over very old ground. Sir Alec Guiness is the definitive Smiley in this superb BBC adaptation of John le Carr's gripping novel.

This DVD is in original episodic form.

DVD Extras: Scene selection. 'The Secret Centre' (edited documentary).

George Smiley is brought out of retirement to find the enemy agent who has infiltrated the British Secret Service.

Alec Guinness, John le Carr, crime, espionage