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Issue Details: First known date: 1964... 1964 The Sleeper
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Film Details - BBC TV , 1964

Producers:

Alan Bromly.

Production Companies:

British Broadcasting Corporation.

Director of Photography:

A. A . Englander.

Editors:

Raoul Sobel.

Production Designers:

Roy Oxley.

Cast:

Gerald Harper (Peter Dibden), Anthony Parker (Simon Romilly), Jennifer Daniel (Anne Romilly), Cyril Luckham (Sir John), Michael Gover (General Zukoyan), Alexis Chesnakov (Colonel Welenski), David Bauer (Commander Fowler), Michael Anthony (Hotel clerk), Graham Armitage (Browne), Paul Bogdan (Police sergeant), Jane Bowman (Woman in Mazurka club), Julian Brooks (Polish clerk), Alethea Charlton (Ilina), Dennis Cleary (Lieutenant), Jurek Conrad (Stoza), Adrian Drotsky (I Room Guard), Krystyna Dugal (Marysia), Betty Duncan (Hotel maid), Maurice Durant (Keipert), Hugh Evans (Faulkner), John Graham (Photographer), Czeslaw Grocholski (Toren), Peter Hutton (Charlton), Miki Iveria (Countess), Chuck Julian (Madman Millstein), Lila Kaye (Kasia), Kenneth Keeling (Bartender), William Kendrick (Barton), Gertan Klauber (Drunken Pole), Janos Kurucz (Man in Mazurka club), Mark Malicz (Ludwik), Patrick O'Connell (Kroll), Patricia Pacy (Baby Gorgon), Tony Poole (I Room Guard), Bernard Rebel (Dr. Ban), J. Mark Roberts (Miles), Witold Scheybal (Photographer), Milo Sperber (Doctor), Frank Sussman (Customs man), Eve Suzin (Nina), Graham Tonbridge (Waiter), Darryl Verne (Drunken Polle), John Waite (Amery), Bruce Wightman (Assistant).

Release Dates:

First aired on the BBC on 2 August – 6 September 1964.

Notes:

Story editor: John Wiles.

List of episodes and broadcast dates

1. Making Plans (2 August 1964)

2. Through the Curtain (9 August 1964)

Simon Romilly has always wanted to drive overland to Moscow. He has no idea that every stage of the journey is being watched by security forces on both sides of the Iron Curtain. (Radio Times, 6 August 1964, p.17.)

3. Rendezvous (16 August 1964)

Simon Romilly has received a mysterious request to meet a stranger in a Warsaw night club. His wife Anne is frightened. Simon simply wants his car back, but they have been warned of great danger ... (Radio Times, 13 August 1964, p.17.)

4. The Truth (23 August 1964)

Simon Romilly 's visit to the Mazurka Club in Warsaw ended in the death of a man he had never seen before, and Simon's fingerprints are on the knife ... (Radio Times, 20 August 1964, p.19.)

5. The Raid (30 August 1964)

The net was about to close on Simon Romilly when he received a telephone call. He went out to meet–who? (Radio Times, 27 August 1964, p.19.)

6. The Gamble (6 September 1964)

In order to escape with his life, Simon is taking part in an almost suicidal theft The object: the Farnsworth Journals. The location: the Warsaw 'I' Room, inner sanctum of the secret police. (Radio Times, 3 September 1964, p.19.)


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