Civvies (1992)

Genre

drama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

12

Rating

8.2 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former army soldier struggles to adjust to civilian life and gets drawn into the orbit of an east end gangster who wants to hire him as a hitman.

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What happens

Civvies is a six-part thriller first broadcast on BBC1 from 22 September to 27 October 1992. The series was written by Lynda La Plante - her first writing contribution for the BBC, after being poached by the BBC following the success of Prime Suspect. The series focuses on Frank Dillon (Jason Isaacs), a former Army soldier who finds life outside the army tougher than being in it - and slowly falls under the power of east end gangster Barry Newman (Peter O'Toole), who is looking to hire a trained hitman. The complete series was released on DVD on 3 June 2013 by Acorn Media UK. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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