Reilly, Ace of Spies

There are 12 episodes, each approximately 50 minutes in length, except Episode 1, which is approximately 80 minutes). The DVD set Thames/Fremantle) includes a 22-minute "documentary examination into what really happened". ==Cast==

• Sam Neill as Sidney Reilly • Peter Egan as Major Charles Fothergill • Ian Charleson as R. H. Bruce Lockhart • Norman Rodway as Captain Mansfield Smith-Cumming • Tom Bell as Felix Dzerzhinsky • David Burke as Joseph Stalin • Kenneth Cranham as Vladimir Lenin • Leo McKern as Basil Zaharoff • Jeananne Crowley as Margaret Callaghan Reilly (wife #1) • Derek Newark as General Stoessel • Donald Morley as Stanley Baldwin • John Castle as Count Massino • Celia Gregory as Nadina "Nadia" Massino (wife #2) • Brian Protheroe as Shasha Grammaticoff • Joanne Whalley as Ulla Glass • Clive Merrison as Boris Savinkov • Laura Davenport as Nelly "Pepita" Burton (wife #3) • Joanne Pearce as Caryll Houselander • Michael Aldridge as Orlov • Victoria Harwood as Natalia • Anthony Higgins as Mikhail Trilisser • John Rhys-Davies as Tanyatos • Sebastian Shaw as Reverend Thomas • Bill Nighy as Goschen • David Ryall as Herr Glass • Denis Lill as William Knox D'Arcy • David Suchet as Inspector Tsientsin • Alex McCrindle as Captain MacDougal • Colin Jeavons as Widdemeyer • Alfred Molina as Yakov Blumkin • Peter Howell as Baron Rothschild • Lindsay Duncan as The Plugger • Hugh Fraser as George Hill • Malcolm Terris as Sykes • Diana Hardcastle as Anna • Prentis Hancock as Boris Souvarine • Geoffrey Whitehead as Count Lubinsky • Aubrey Morris as Mendrovovich • Phil Smeeton as Chekist • Michael Angelis as Artur Artuzov • Alan Downer as Eduard Berzin • Alan Bowerman as Lieberman • Sara Clee as Fanya "Fanny" Kaplan ==Critical reception==

In a 1984 review for The New York Times, John Corry wrote, "much of 'Reilly' is eminently watchable simply because it is eminently watchable." He praised the production and Sam Neill's performance and summarized "a mixed bag of pleasures, but it's worth dropping in on, if not in whole, then at least in part." ==Awards==

Costume designer Elizabeth Waller was nominated for a 1984 British Academy Television Craft Award for best costume design for the series, and editors Edward Marnier and Ralph Sheldon won the BAFTA TV Craft award for Best Film Editor. ==Home media==

The series was issued on Region 1 DVD by A&E Home Entertainment, under licence from THAMES International, talkbackTHAMES and FremantleMedia Ltd on 22 February 2005. ==See also==