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Genre
  
Original language(s)
  
English

First episode date
  
7 April 1970

Number of seasons
  
1

Networks
  
BBC, BBC Two

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Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

No. of series
  
1

Final episode date
  
30 June 1970

Number of episodes
  
13

Created by
  
Bill HaysDavid Sullivan Proudfoot

Starring
  
Clifford EvansAlexandra BastedoAnthony ValentineBrian Peck

Cast
  
Similar
  
The Aphrodite Inheritance, Colditz, Callan, Dr Finlay's Casebook, The Champions

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Codename was a short-lived British television series produced by the BBC in 1970.

An espionage thriller series, Codename recounted the activities of a secret organisation, MI17, being run from a residential hall at Cambridge University. The programme, lasting for one series of thirteen episodes, was produced by Gerard Glaister and starred Clifford Evans, Alexandra Bastedo, Anthony Valentine and Brian Peck. It was preceded by a one-off pilot play, with a different cast.

The leads were well known from other series when this series was originally transmitted, Valentine from Callan, Bastedo from The Champions and Evans from The Power Game, and the first episode featured on the cover of the Radio Times. However, the show failed to capture the public imagination, and no further series were made.

No episodes survive in the BBC archive, though there is a recording of the pilot.

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