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'Circles of Deceit' is a British television thriller series, produced by Yorkshire Television, first broadcast on ITV on 16 October 1993. The series stars Dennis Waterman as John Neil, a former serving officer in the Special Air Service, who works as a private investigator for the secret service. A total of four episodes were broadcast, including a single feature-length self-titled pilot in 1993,[https://web.archive.org/web/20090129080045/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/496018 BFI.org] and a series of three episodes, filmed in 1995, and broadcast between 1995 and 1996. Although broadcast as the final episode of the series, 'Sleeping Dogs' is set chronologically after the events of the self-titled pilot (which was re-titled 'The Wolves are Howling' for disambiguation reasons on repeat broadcasts and home video release).



Aside from Neil, the only other character to appear in all four films was the Controller. In the pilot, this role was assumed by Derek Jacobi (under the pseudonym of Randal). For the series, Jacobi was replaced by Susan Jameson. The only other recurring character throughout the series was Andy, a wheelchair-using researcher and collator, played by Dave Hill. A VHS video of the self-titled pilot was released in the United States in 1994. The complete series was later released on Region 1 DVD in the United States by Acorn Media on 17 May 2011. On 23 April 2018, nearly twenty-five years after the broadcast of the self-titled pilot, the complete series was released on Region 2 DVD in the United Kingdom by Strawberry Media.

Cast



* Dennis Waterman as John Neil

* Derek Jacobi as Controller aka 'Randal' (1.1)

* Susan Jameson as Controller (2.1 2.3)

* Dave Hill as Andy (2.1 2.3)

'The Wolves are Howling'

* Peter Vaughan as Liam McAuley

* Clare Higgins as Eilish

* Ian McElhinney as Father Fergal

* Tony Doyle as Graham

* Colum Convey as Dessie Gill

* Gerard Crossan as Colum McAuley

* Andrew Connolly as Dermot McAuley

'Sleeping Dogs'

* Leo McKern as Alexander Petrov

* Frances Barber as Annie Shepherd

* Paul Freeman as Armitage

* Nicholas Jones as Schroeder

* Bill Armstrong as Bill Roper

* Lalor Roddy as Mark Grady

* Ian Fitzgibbon as Tony Lynch

* James Aubrey as George Grant

'Dark Secret'

* Corin Redgrave as Harry Summers

* Kate Buffery as Kate Moore

* Pippa Guard as Elizabeth Ferrer

* Melanie Hill as Angie Norman

* Holly Aird as Sarah Ellis

* Sean McGinley as Jim Caine

* Adjoa Andoh as Daniela

* Joe Montana as Travis

* Peter Birch as Stefan

'Kalon'

* Simon Cadell as Brendan Rylands

* Saskia Wickham as Liz Baker

* John Hannah as Jason Sturden

* Struan Rodger as Alec Dwyer

* Sean Gilder as Tarleton

* John Hartley as Francis

* Constantine Gregory as Paric

* Jack Klaff as Osuna

* Tony Armatrading as Lawrence

Episodes



Pilot (1993)

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Series (19951996)

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References




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