John Buchan - Creator of the modern spy novel.
Spy novels owe a debt to John Buchan's "The Thirty Nine Steps." Its influence on the genre remains just as relevant, over 100 years since the book was published.
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- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsRobert DonatMadeleine CarrollLucie MannheimA man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsKenneth MoreTaina ElgBrenda de BanzieIn London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsRobert PowellDavid WarnerEric PorterIn March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.The most faithful version to the novel.
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsBarry FosterDiana QuickJohn CastleAfter World War I, Richard Hannay is married to Mary and living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people. Given nothing to go on but a few mysterious clues, Hannay, assisted by friends like Sandy Arbuthnot, must track down the dastardly villains behind the plot before it's too late.
- StarsDonald DouglasMadeleine ChristieIsobel BlackDuring the 17th century, a Presbyterian minister struggles against witchcraft being practiced amongst his congregation.
- StarsRichard CaldicotGeorge WoodbridgeRobert BrownSeries of television plays performed live.
- CreatorMichael RobsonStarsRobert PowellChristopher ScoularGavin RichardsRichard Hannay is a man of his times: an Edwardian gentleman and adventurer, a mining engineer from South Africa of Scottish origin, who lives by his own standards and wits, upholding a moral code which is distinctly his own. An outsider, he is at once a rugged gentleman and a knight errant when it comes to women.
- DirectorWalter SummersStarsCraighall SherryHans von SlockRoger MaxwellDramatic reconstruction of two 1914 naval battles off Coronel and the Falkland Islands.The first a defeat of the British by Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee, the second a retaliation by the British under vice Admiral Sturdee.
- DirectorDick CruikshanksStarsErnest GrovesMasojaGrafton Williams
- StarsSusan WooldridgeJames MaxwellCavan KendallAdaptation of John Buchan's novel, set in the 1920s, about three members of the English establishment who seek excitement by poaching on the estates of Scottish landowners.
- DirectorGeorge PearsonStarsHarry LauderVera VoroninaPatrick AherneA retired grocer and Gorbels boys save a Russian prince from Bolsheviks.
- StarsPaul CurranPeter SettelenStanley LeborA motley group of people - a Russian princess, an English poet and a retired Scots grocer among them - are brought together at Huntingtower. But why?
- StarsPatrick BarrPeter RendallJill MelfordAfter World War I, Richard Hannay is married to Mary and living peacefully in the Cotswolds, when he receives a request to help solve the mysterious kidnapping of the children of three prominent people. Given nothing to go on but a few mysterious clues, Hannay, assisted by friends like Sandy Arbuthnot, must track down the dastardly villains behind the plot before it's too late.
- DirectorJames HawesStarsRupert Penry-JonesLydia LeonardDavid HaigRichard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it's more than he bargained for when secret agent, Scudder, bursts into his room and entrusts him a coded notebook with map, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must crack himself. Masquerading as a liberal party pundit, Richard also gets stuck with parliamentary candidate Sir George Sinclair's sister Victoria. They must survive with the secrets and decide who they can trust and how to keep it from others.
- StarsGwynne DyerRobert BordenJohn BuchanA documentary about the history and contemporary state of Canadian military and foreign policy.