The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs (1974)

The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs

The Top Secret Life Of Edgar Briggs was a 30-minute British television comedy series created by Bernard McKenna & Richard Laing and produced by Humphrey Barclay for LWT. It was transmitted on the ITV network 15 September - 20 December 1974 and featured David Jason as the inept Edgar Briggs, personal assistant to the Commander of the British Secret Intelligence Service who, in spite of his cluelessness, manages to solve case after case. It has been likened to the earlier American series Get Smart.

The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs

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Seasons

Season 1

Series 1

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    The assassin

  • 1x2

    The defector

  • 1x3

    The leak

  • 1x4

    The escape route

  • 1x5

    The abduction

  • 1x6

    The exchange

  • 1x7

    The courier

  • 1x8

    The traitor

  • 1x9

    The kgb

  • 1x10

    The drawing

  • 1x11

    The president

  • 1x12

    The appointment

  • 1x13

    The contact

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