An Affair with a Married Woman
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"An Affair with a Married Woman" is the first episode of the 1983 British biographical television series Reilly, Ace of Spies
Reilly, Ace of Spies
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies to ever work for the British. Among his exploits in the early 20th century were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of...

. In 1901 Sigmund Rosenblum emigrates from Russia to England, where he has an affair with a vicar's wife and changes his name to Sidney Reilly.

Plot

British agent Sigmund Rosenblum steals a top-secret oil survey of the Persian basin from the Russian Empire. Posing as an Odessa academic, Rosenblum travels by train thru the Caucasus
Caucasus
The Caucasus, also Caucas or Caucasia , is a geopolitical region at the border of Europe and Asia, and situated between the Black and the Caspian sea...

 bearing the documents. At Baku
Baku
Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...

, the Russian police board the train and Rosenblum is detained in town, along with the Reverend and Mrs. Thomas, by the careful but suspicious Police Chief Tanyatos. Flirtatiously manipulating Margaret Thomas, Rosenblum contrives an escape, during which he kills a border guard and abandons the Thomases in the hands of the angry Russian authorities.

In London, Rosenblum withholds key elements of the stolen oil survey form SIS
Secret Intelligence Service
The Secret Intelligence Service is responsible for supplying the British Government with foreign intelligence. Alongside the internal Security Service , the Government Communications Headquarters and the Defence Intelligence , it operates under the formal direction of the Joint Intelligence...

 director Sir George Smith-Cumming. With the survey in demand, an agent of Vickers
Vickers
Vickers was a famous name in British engineering that existed through many companies from 1828 until 1999.-Early history:Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the miller Edward Vickers and his father-in-law George Naylor in 1828. Naylor was a partner in the foundry Naylor &...

 magnate Basil Zaharoff
Basil Zaharoff
Basil Zaharoff, GCB, GBE , born Zacharias Basileios Zacharoff, was an arms dealer and financier...

 gets heavy-handed and murders Rosenblum’s friend Rose. Rosenblum tracks Zaharoff down, and they forge a bloody pact over the body of Rose’s killer, Zaharoff's agent Rowhedge.

Under British pressure, the Russian government releases the now invalid Reverend Thomas and his disgraced wife Margaret who return to London amid a storm of public scandal. Smith-Cumming and Fothergill convince Margaret that they have no knowledge of Rosenblum, but are embarrassed when he attends a press conference. Rosenblum propositions Margaret on the spot, telling her she will soon be a very rich widow. Disgusted, Margaret dubs Rosenblum despicable, but when Reverend Thomas dies she marries Rosenblum. With a new wife and a new fortune Rosenblum, adopts the new identity of Sidney Reilly
Sidney Reilly
Lieutenant Sidney George Reilly, MC , famously known as the Ace of Spies, was a Jewish Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard, the British Secret Service Bureau and later the Secret Intelligence Service . He is alleged to have spied for at least four nations...

.

Impressed by Rosenblum’s theft of the Russian oil survey, Admiral Fisher orders him to Port Arthur in the Russian far east.

Cast

  • Reilly/Rosenblum Sam Neill
    Sam Neill
    Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill, DCNZM, OBE is a New Zealand actor. He is well known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III....

  • Zararov Leo McKern
    Leo McKern
    Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO was an Australian-born British actor who appeared in numerous British and Australian television programmes and movies, and more than 200 stage roles.-Early life:...

  • Cummings
    Mansfield Smith-Cumming
    Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, KCMG, CB was the first director of what would become the Secret Intelligence Service , also known as MI6...

     Norman Rodway
    Norman Rodway
    -Early life:Rodway was born in Dublin to English parents, Frank and Lillian Rodway. He studied classics, graduating at Trinity College. He worked as an accountant, teacher, and university lecturer before acting.-Career:...

  • Fothergill Peter Egan
    Peter Egan
    Peter Egan is a British actor known for playing smooth neighbour Paul Ryman in 1980s sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles. He is married to retired actress Myra Frances.-Early life:...

  • Margaret Jeananne Crowley
    Jeananne Crowley
    Jeananne Crowley is an Irish actress and writer, remembered for her collaborations in British film and television. She appeared in the film Educating Rita and is possibly best known for her role as Nellie Keene in the BBC drama series Tenko.-Screen:Recently, Crowley has appeared in The Clinic and...

  • Tanyatos John Rhys-Davies
    John Rhys-Davies
    John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

  • Reverend Thomas Sebastian Shaw
    Sebastian Shaw (actor)
    Sebastian Lewis Shaw was an English actor, director, novelist, playwright and poet. During his 65-year career, Shaw appeared in dozens of stage performances and more than 40 film and television productions....

  • Admiral Fisher Denis Holmes
  • Pomeroy John Hart Dyke
  • Elliott John Monckton
  • Rowhedge Howard Lew Lewis
    Howard Lew Lewis
    Howard Lew Lewis is an English comedian and actor, best known for his roles in comedy series including Maid Marian and her Merry Men and Brush Strokes.-Biography:Lewis' grandmother Dame Ethel Gomer-Lewis was an opera singer...

  • Firsig Vic Tablian
    Vic Tablian
    Vic Tablian is an Armenian-born British actor. His filmography includes his double role as Barranca and Monkey Man in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.- Filmography :* The Bill, Nadim Mura, 2007...

  • Rose Michele Copsey
  • Sergeant Kott Ben Feitelson
  • Mrs A Barbara Ashcroft
  • Harringay Jonathoan Steward
  • Markstein Dennis Chinnery
    Dennis Chinnery
    Dennis Chinnery is a British actor, noted for his performances in television.His credits include: Hancock's Half Hour, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, The Saint, The Avengers, The Prisoner, The Champions, Public Eye, Special Branch, Oh Brother! 'The Laughter of a Fool' and...

  • Detective John Ludlow
  • Worthing Susie Fairfax
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