Frederick Forsyth Presents
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Frederick Forsyth Presents is a series of British made-for-television films made by FremantleMedia for London Weekend Television on ITV, first broadcast between 2 December 1989 to 8 December 1990.
Frederick Forsyth Presents | |
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Genre | Espionage Drama |
Created by | Frederick Forsyth |
Written by | Murray Smith |
Directed by | Tom Clegg Lawrence Gordon Clark Ian Sharp James Cellan Jones |
Starring | Alan Howard |
Music by | Paul Chihara |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Nick Elliott Frederick Forsyth Murray Smith |
Producer | Frederick Muller |
Production locations | Middle East, North Africa, Europe, West Indies |
Running time | 98 ā 103 minutes |
Production company | London Weekend Television in association with IFS Productions Ltd. |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 2 December 1989 (1989-12-02) ā 8 December 1990 (1990-12-08) |
Related | |
The Deceiver (1991), a related book which followed production |
Based on stories which were later published as the Forsyth novel The Deceiver, there are six films, most with the themes of espionage and war. An important character who appears in all six is Sam McCready, played by Alan Howard, a Secret Intelligence Service agent who has become an author but continues to work on SIS operations. He plays the lead in most of the films, but in A Little Piece of Sunshine he has more of a supporting role. Each of the stories are introduced on screen by Frederick Forsyth.