Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - Season 1 - Eps 5: Tinker Tailor

Name: Eps 5: Tinker Tailor
Released: 1979-10-08
Rating: 3.8

1979-10-08 • 50 min • ⭐ 7.524/10

Smiley, now fortified with new information, goes to confront Jim Prideaux, an old spy who long since came in from the cold and is now a school teacher. Control, in his last days, seemed to have confided in him and sent him on a mission behind the Iron Curtain to find out who exactly the mole in the Circus was, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Rich man, or Poor man.

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About Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Title: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

First Air Date: 1979-09-10

Last Air Date: 1979-10-22

Status: Ended

Rating: 7.524/10 (from 123 votes)

Language: EN

Seasons: 2

Total Episodes: 7

Network: BBC Two

Genres: War & Politics, Drama, Mystery

Production Companies: BBC, Paramount Pictures

Synopsis

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.