Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy + Smiley’s People (Blu-ray)

The critically acclaimed BBC productions of John Le Carre’s espionage classics. Starring Sir Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson, Bernard Hepton, Joss Ackland, Eileen Atkins & Beryl Reid.

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY: In BAFTA-winner Sir Alec Guinness’s first major TV role he plays George Smiley, a retired agent who is secretly brought into the Circus (the code name for British Secret Intelligence Service) to root out a top-level mole. Gradually piecing together the story, the weary but determined Smiley trawls through the murky waters of Cold War espionage and his own past.

SMILEYS PEOPLE: Winner of four BAFTAs, including Best Actor and Best Actress. Smiley and Karla in the final confrontation. The bespectacled spymaster is once more called from retirement to come to the aid of the Circus – and he returns with a vengeance. The murder of an emigre Soviet General, who was also a British agent, sends him digging into the past on a twisted trail across Europe that moves, inexorably, towards a final showdown with his old adversary, Karla of Moscow Centre.