Harry's Game

Harry's Game is a British miniseries, made by Yorkshire Television for ITV in 1982. The series is based on the novel by Gerald Seymour from 1975. The series has 3 episodes, with a combined length of 180 minutes.

The story centers on Captain Harry Brown (played by Ray Lonnen), who as a British soldier in an undercover assignment is sent to Northern Ireland, with the mandate to find information one Billy Downes (played by Derek Thompson) to be able to arrest. The killer is a member of a local IRADepartment.

The theme music of the series "is a song by Clannad, Theme from Harry's Game. The song was successfully released on single.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The story of Harry's Game begins when Minister Henry Danby being shot dead by IRA member Billy Downes, who then escapes to Belfast. Army Officer Harry Brown is sent undercover to the Catholic community of Belfast to find this killer. Brown is chosen for this command, because he previously knew a similar command in Oman to complete successfully.
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Under the name Harry McEvoy he knows to get a job. Then he meets the Catholic Josephine Laverty, with whom he regularly goes out. Here he meets-ignorant-Downes in a local club, who secretly led by the British army. By a British soldier is arrested, but then released after interrogation Downes. Harry tips off his superiors that the killer was at the club and Theresa knows his name. Theresa is then arrested. For fear that the IRA will kill her when she talks she commits suicide. When Josephine realizes that the above information had to be Harry's coming begging them to leave Harry to her and Belfast. Harry refuses because he feels that the murderer to be caught. The news that Harry in Belfast is passes the message to the IRA by a waiter, who had heard about this two British officers. All new entrants are then checked, even Harry.

The IRA start a campaign to get to Harry. Together with two man put Downes a trap on Harry knows the fellow perpetrators to shoot down in the confrontation and forcing a taxi driver to be helpful in the pursuit on Downes. In this way he knows to follow Downes to his home address, but this House is under observation by the British army. Then shooting down the unarmed Harry Downes in the presence of his wife. The military, which the House of Downes observed and have no knowledge about the identity of Harry, thinking that this must be a terrorist and then shoot Harry down. Bleeding in the street, Harry is shoot the wife of Harry Downes then with his own revolver through the head. Read warning: ends here.==Recordings[ Edit] == Harry's Game was largely included in Leeds, England. Especially the now-demolished housing district in Burley served as the setting for the series.

There are also a few scenes in Belfast (where the series are largely set), including at Falls Road.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  some of the final scenes are included in Holywood, County Down. ==Broadcasts<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series was originally broadcast on ITV in October 1982, in three episodes 52 to 54 minutes. The three episodes were later also merged into a television film titled Harry's Game-The Movie.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series was released in Canada under the title Belfast Assassin.