The Ambassador

Name: The Ambassador
Released: 1998-01-04T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Pauline Collins, Denis Lawson, Owen Roe

TV Show · Drama · Special Interest

The Ambassador is a British television drama series produced by the BBC, created by Hugh Costello and it ran for two series between 4 January 1998 and 30 May 1999. The series starred Pauline Collins in the title role as Harriet Smith, the new British ambassador to Ireland and dealt with the personal and professional pressures in her life, as well as wider political themes. Other notable cast members were Denis Lawson and Peter Egan.

1998 · 49m

Starring Pauline Collins, Denis Lawson, Owen Roe

Director Ken Grieve

EPISODE 1

Innocent Passage

British Ambassador Harriet Smith arrives in Dublin and finds the government accusing Britain of sinking an Irish trawler.
EPISODE 2

Refugee

A British woman takes refuge at the embassy for what appears to be marital abuse, but evidence emerges that may threaten Smith's career.
EPISODE 3

Nine Tenths of the Law

Smith learns that a young British woman who was jailed for smuggling drugs works at the same bar as her son.
EPISODE 4

A Cluster of Betrayals

A man brandishing a canister of nuclear waste takes a hostage.
EPISODE 5

Trade

Stone sanctions the cover-up of a death, that of a boy found in a minister's hotel room.
EPISODE 6

Playing God

Smith is asked to persuade a friend not to publish his memoirs.