The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs
The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs
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The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs

6.7 / 10
1974
1 season
13 episodes
Comedy

The Top Secret Life Of Edgar Briggs was a 30-minute British television comedy series created by Bernard McKenna & Richard Laing and produced by Humphrey Barclay for LWT. It was transmitted on the ITV network 15 September - 20 December 1974 and featured David Jason as the inept Edgar Briggs, personal assistant to the Commander of the British Secret Intelligence Service who, in spite of his cluelessness, manages to solve case after case. It has been likened to the earlier American series Get Smart.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Assassin

    15-09-197430m

    Informed by Buxton that the 'other side' are plotting to kill the Commander, Briggs goes undercover as a restaurant waiter and ends up saving the Commander's life - but nor before...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Defector

    22-09-197430m

    Having tracked to a heliport two Russian agents suspected of organising escape routes to Moscow for agents on the run, Briggs accidentally switches on the airport's Tannoy system -...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Leak

    29-09-197430m

    While attending a cocktail party with his wife, Briggs saves the day handing a roll of 'classified' film to an enemy contact - the man believes he's getting film of a secret missil...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Escape Route

    06-10-197430m

    Assigned to discover who is behind an escape route, Briggs find himself swimming in muddy water but nevertheless stumbles across the ringleader - and accidently rounds up the gang...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Abduction

    25-10-197430m

    When the Commander is abducted and Briggs is left to engineer his escape, the agent does so, but not until he has bumbled his way through another mission and driven the abductor's...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Exchange

    01-11-197430m

    Busy redecorating his home, Briggs stops his DIY activities to oversee an exchange of spies between SIS and the East Germans and finds himself face to face with enemy agents - with...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Courier

    08-11-197430m

    Suspecting that a member of the International Symphony Orchestra, a pianist, has devised a clever scheme to smuggle secret information to the KGB, Briggs thwarts the man's plans -...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Traitor

    15-11-197430m

    Suspecting that Edwards, a clerk in the Documents Section, is responsible for betraying the department's agents to the enemy, Briggs exposed a network of traitors - by mistakenly a...

  • Ep 9

    9.The KGB

    22-11-197430m

    Assigned to organise the defection of a top Russian nuclear scientist, Briggs, heavily disguised, collects the woman in his car. Taking a 'short cut' to evade his pursuers, he gets...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Drawing

    29-11-197430m

    Informed that someone at the Naval Section is selling vital missile drawings to the enemy, Briggs enters into a game of roulette with the suspect and discovers that the secret info...

  • Ep 11

    11.The President

    06-12-197430m

    When assassination attempts are made on the life of a visiting president, our hero is put in charge of security. A mistake: before the day is through Briggs will pursue the enemy i...

  • Ep 12

    12.The Appointment

    13-12-197430m

    Given the task of training new recruit Maxwell. Briggs teaches the man the tricks of self-defence and marksmanship - but forgets to load Maxwell's gun. A fortunate move - Maxwell i...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Contact

    20-12-197430m

    Assigned to observe a meeting between an SIS man and his enemy-contact and take photographic evidence, Briggs causes chaos at Victoria Station by hiding on a train - and is carried...

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