About this season
The Inside Man, produced by Derek Granger and David Cunliffe, offers more of a reimagining than a direct replacement of its predecessor's concept. The series features Frederick Jaeger as Dr. James Austen, a psychiatrist and criminologist who alternates between working for Basil Henson's character, Dawnay, from "the Department," and taking on cases from private clients. Petra Davies plays Sarah Worth, Austen's dependable 'girl Friday.' In the third episode, *Crosscheck*, Robin Ellis joins the cast as Michael Barnett, a spy whom the Department insists Austen should approve. However, every detail about Barnett is an obvious fabrication, adding layers of intrigue to the storyline.
Episodes (12)
1. Delayed Action
Aired 17 January 1969
Fulton Mackay guest stars as the survivor of an accidental RAF bombing that has wiped out his family.
2. Command Performance
Aired 24 January 1969 • 60 min
3. Crosscheck
Aired 31 January 1969 • 60 min
Michael Barnett is a spy whom the Department wants Austen to vet positively, despite every fact about him being easily verified lies.
4. Death of a Friendship
Aired 7 February 1969 • 60 min
5. Discord
Aired 14 February 1969 • 60 min
Renowned concert pianist Robert Flemyng returns home after spending 18 months in a Russian prison camp. Concerned about how the harrowing experience might have changed him, his wife, Lisa Daniely, turns to Austen for help in understanding what kind of man her husband has become.
6. Recall
Aired 21 February 1969 • 60 min
7. Lady in the Bath
Aired 28 February 1969 • 60 min
Rachel Marlow, a rich and glamorous film director, is found dead in her bath with her wrists slashed. It looks as if she has finally said her own goodbye to a world that had become too fast. But when Dr. Austen starts to reconstruct her life and background from the memories of the people who knew her, he finds he is engaged in a quest much more deadly and sinister than that of a beautiful suicide.
8. An East-West Affair
Aired 7 March 1969 • 60 min
"Are you repelled by the sight of a middle-aged woman in love with a man years younger? Some people are." When a young Eastern attaché takes a more than friendly interest in a high-ranking but mature lady member of the British diplomatic staff, Dawnay's department is alarmed—especially as her briefcase contains classified information. In a background of Civil Service intrigue and vicious gossip-mongering, Dr. James Austen tries to restore some sanity in an attempt to stop the Juggernaut of the Establishment from crushing the private lives of ordinary people.
9. The Spy Vanishes
Aired 14 March 1969 • 60 min
When Dr. James Austen interviews convicted spy Josef Borozhek at the start of a 40-year sentence in maximum security, the prospect looks ugly indeed--especially when Borozhek becomes the victim of savage attacks from his cell-mates. But when his tormentors try to strike a bargain, Borozhek becomes a key figure in an even more frightening chase to the death.
10. A Day of Angels
Aired 21 March 1969 • 60 min
When a fear-crazed man, without past, present, or future. is picked up in Berlin, and refuses to talk, Dr. Austen is thrown into the highly-charged world of East-West tension. He is faced with the problem of making the victim talk before the Department resorts to more brutal forms of persuasion.
11. The Case of the Abandoned Wife
Aired 28 March 1969 • 60 min
When a fear-crazed man, without past, present or future. is picked up in Berlin, and refuses to talk, Dr. Austen is thrown into the highly-charged world of East-West tension. He is faced with the problem of making the victim talk before the Department resorts to more brutal forms of persuasion.
12. Revenge for a Visitor
Aired 4 April 1969 • 60 min
"Leave me alone! I don't want you near me! You've been watching, listening, all these months. You're just another spy." In the last of the current series. James Austen finds himself caught up in the strange case of a Polish girl living in London who appears to have become terrified by sudden explosions of family hatred. For Austen, the frightened Irena is strictly a private patient, but for Dawnay, she is the beginning of a trail which leads him to a deadly plot of political revenge.