Our Man In Moscow - BBC1 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
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Episodes
1 Pilot
Stars
Robert Morley, Patrick Wymark, Frank Thornton, Anthony Newlands, Michael Earl, Frank Littlewood, Leon Thau and Peter Thompson
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Sir William Hunter can be a little highly strung, but as the British ambassador in Moscow, wouldn't you be?
Aided by his much cooler-headed secretary Mortimer, Hunter enjoys the perks of the job - cocktails, dinner parties and balls - so long as there's nothing he can be mocked over, such as England losing at cricket.
Quietly awaiting the arrival of a visiting British pop group, the usual work-eschewing peace of the ambassadorial residence is thrown into disarray when the third tuba player in the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra arrives with a particularly unusual request for political asylum.
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Part of
Also known as
- Comedy Playhouse: Our Man In Moscow
Production
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Picture
Black and white
Broadcast details
First broadcast
Friday 1st March 1963 at 8:45pm on BBC One
Episode length
30 minutes