Episode 1
Boom-Ooh-Yatatatah
In the wake of Kim Philby’s escape to Moscow, his closest friend in Britain’s Secret Service, Nicholas Elliott, is under investigation.
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A Spy Among Friends
2022TV-MA1 season6.5 / 10
One of their own has done the unthinkable.
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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Synopsis
Follow the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott.
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Episode 2
The Admiral's Glass
Investigator Lily Thomas understands that Elliott is never going to divulge anything of value in a conventional interrogation process so she manipulates him.
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Episode 3
Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Philby begins to understand that the KGB can never fully trust him now that he’s in Moscow, and as far as they’re concerned, his life as a spy for them is over.
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Episode 4
Vodka
Elliott rattles Blunt’s cage to make him panic and then follows him to a clandestine meeting in the middle of the night.
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Episode 5
Snow
Elliott and Lily fear that no one can be trusted. They must get to Blunt before anyone else to interrogate him and confirm their suspicions.
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Episode 6
No Man's Land
Lily has forced Elliot to remember more than he perhaps ever wanted to about Philby. Months later, Elliott receives a letter from Philby asking for a meeting in an East Berlin bar.
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More about A Spy Among Friends
Cast
Guy PearceKim Philby
Damian LewisNicholas Elliott
Anna Maxwell MartinLily Thomas
Stephen KunkenJames Jesus Angelton
Adrian EdmondsonSir Roger Hollis
Nicholas RoweSir Anthony Blunt
Monika GossmannGalina
Alice BarclayMiss ColefaxCredits
- Created by
- Ben Macintyre, Alexander Cary
- Written by
- Alexander Cary
Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Miniseries
- Episodes
- 6
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
ITVXUnited Kingdom
ITV StudiosUnited Kingdom
Sony Pictures TelevisionUnited States- FLW ProductionsUnited States
- Ginger Biscuit EntertainmentUnited Kingdom
Themes
based on novel or bookbritish intelligencecold warkgbminiseries
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