Hannay(1988)

series - first aired/released 1988-01-06 - audience 6.5

Action & Adventure, Mystery, Drama

Directed by David Giles, Guy Slater, Henry Herbert, Jeremy Summers, Ken Hannam, Robert Reed

Hannay is a 1988 spin-off prequel series to the 1978 film adaptation of John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine Steps which stars Robert Powell as Richard Hannay, a role which he reprises in the series, an Edwardian mining engineer from Rhodesia of Scottish origin. It features his adventures in pre-World War I Great Britain. These stories had little in common with Buchan's novels about the character, although some names are taken from his other novels.