Traitor (TV drama)

Traitor is a BBC television drama written by Dennis Potter, which featured in the Play for Today on 14 October 1971.

It features the prominent British comedy actor John Le Mesurier, in a straight acting role, as Adrian Harris, a character loosely based on Kim Philby, although he may also contain elements of Guy Burgess. There is an incident based on the Volkov incident in Philby's autobiography.

Potter revisited the subject of the Cambridge spies in his drama Blade on the Feather (1980).

External links

Traitor at the Internet Movie Database

The works of Dennis Potter

Television plays	The Confidence Course (1965) Alice (1965) Almost Cinderella (unproduced, 1965) Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965) Vote Vote Vote for Nigel Barton (1965) Emergency – Ward 9 (1966) Where the Buffalo Roam (1966) Message for Posterity (1967) The Bonegrinder (1968) Shaggy Dog (1968) A Beast with Two Backs (1968) Moonlight on the Highway (1969) Son of Man (1969) Lay Down Your Arms (1970) Angels Are So Few (1970) Paper Roses (1971) Traitor (1971) Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972) Only Make Believe (1973) A Tragedy of Two Ambitions (1973) Joe's Ark (1974) Schmoedipus (1974) Double Dare (1976) Where Adam Stood (1976) Blue Remembered Hills (1979) Blade on the Feather (1980) Rain on the Roof (1980) Cream in My Coffee (1980) Visitors (1987) Brimstone and Treacle (1987)

Television serials	Casanova (1971) Late Call (1975) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) Pennies From Heaven (1978) Tender Is the Night (1985) The Singing Detective (1986) Christabel (1988) Blackeyes (1989) Lipstick on Your Collar (1993) Karaoke (1996) Cold Lazarus (1996)

Films	Pennies from Heaven (1981) Brimstone and Treacle (1982) Gorky Park (1983) Dreamchild (1985) Track 29 (1988) Secret Friends (1991) Midnight Movie (1993) Mesmer (1993) The Singing Detective (2003)

Stage	Sufficient Carbohydrate (1983)

Select publications	The Glittering Coffin (1960) The Changing Forest: Life in the Forest of Dean Today (1962) Hide and Seek (novel, 1973) Waiting for the Boat: Dennis Potter on Television (1984) Ticket to Ride (novel, 1986) Potter on Potter (1993) Seeing the Blossom: Two Interviews, A Lecture and A Story (1994)

The Play for Today series

Alma Mater (1971) · Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971) · Evelyn (1971) · The Foxtrot (1971) · Traitor (1971) · Home (1972) · Horace (1972) · Just Your Luck (1972) · Penda's Fen (1974) · The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil (1974) · 84 Charing Cross Road (1975) · Funny Farm (1975) · Gangsters (1975) · Just Another Saturday (1975) · Rumpole of the Bailey (1975) · Double Dare (1976) · Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976) · Nuts in May (1976) · Abigail's Party (1977) · Spend, Spend, Spend (1977) · Licking Hitler (1978) · Red Shift (1978) · The After-Dinner Joke (1978) · Our Day Out (1978) · Blue Remembered Hills (1979) · Comedians (1979) · Just a Boys' Game (1979) · The Black Stuff (1980) · The Flipside of Dominick Hide (1980) · Z for Zachariah (1984) · Brimstone and Treacle (1987, completed 1976) · Scum (1991, completed 1977)