Pokerface (1986)

Country

Australia

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An ex-journalist works undercover for Australia's intelligence service. He goes on dangerous missions and faces tough situations.

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What happens

Pokerface is a 1986 miniseries about a former journalist who works as an undercover agent for Australia's secret service. Bill Garner was friends with Peter Corris. Garner arranged for the ABC to commission an espionage mini series and he wrote it with Corris. Corris recalled, "it was bloody good. Bruno Lawrence... was terrific, very tough guy. So we did that and then I novelised our script, Penguin published it, it did well, and that kicked off the Crawly series. Bill would provide the basic idea, they were set in different places. They [the books] started really well but failed badly." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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