Bird of Prey (1982)

Genre

drama, sci-fi & fantasy

Country

United Kingdom

Length

2 seasons, 8 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A computer-literate civil servant and his wife get pulled into a shadowy international conspiracy run by a secret organization.

tensecerebralsuspensefulslow-burnparanoidintricatebleakcold

What happens

Bird of Prey is a British techno-thriller television serial written by Ron Hutchinson and produced by Michael Wearing and Bernard Krichefski for the BBC in 1982. It was directed by Michael Rolfe. The second series was co-written with Lee Montague. The series starred Richard Griffiths and Carole Nimmons as Henry and Anne Jay: Henry is a humble but highly computer-savvy civil servant who finds that he and his wife are drawn into an international conspiracy involving the mysterious Le Pouvoir organisation. A sequel, Bird of Prey 2 followed in 1984. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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