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The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs

The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs

The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs

1974 1 Seasons 13 Episodes ⭐ 7.5 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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Assassin

Informed by Buxton that the 'other side' are plotting to kill the Commander, Briggs goes undercover as a restaurant wait

EP 2

The Defector

Having tracked to a heliport two Russian agents suspected of organising escape routes to Moscow for agents on the run, B

EP 3

The Leak

While attending a cocktail party with his wife, Briggs saves the day handing a roll of 'classified' film to an enemy con

EP 4

The Escape Route

Assigned to discover who is behind an escape route, Briggs find himself swimming in muddy water but nevertheless stumble

EP 5

The Abduction

When the Commander is abducted and Briggs is left to engineer his escape, the agent does so, but not until he has bumble

EP 6

The Exchange

Busy redecorating his home, Briggs stops his DIY activities to oversee an exchange of spies between SIS and the East Ger

EP 7

The Courier

Suspecting that a member of the International Symphony Orchestra, a pianist, has devised a clever scheme to smuggle secr

EP 8

The Traitor

Suspecting that Edwards, a clerk in the Documents Section, is responsible for betraying the department's agents to the e

EP 9

The KGB

Assigned to organise the defection of a top Russian nuclear scientist, Briggs, heavily disguised, collects the woman in

EP 10

The Drawing

Informed that someone at the Naval Section is selling vital missile drawings to the enemy, Briggs enters into a game of

EP 11

The President

When assassination attempts are made on the life of a visiting president, our hero is put in charge of security. A mista

EP 12

The Appointment

Given the task of training new recruit Maxwell. Briggs teaches the man the tricks of self-defence and marksmanship - but

EP 13

The Contact

Assigned to observe a meeting between an SIS man and his enemy-contact and take photographic evidence, Briggs causes cha

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