The Piglet Files
1990
📺 3 Seasons
🎬 21 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 25 min/episode
Comedy
The Piglet files is a British espionage satire produced by LWT. The show consisted of three series totalling 21 episodes broadcast from 7 September 1990 to 10 May 1992.
The programme follows the life of reluctant MI5 agent Peter 'Piglet' Chapman as he tries to instruct his fellow agents on the finer points of spy gadgetry while keeping his wife Sarah in the dark about his new career.
Seasons
Season 1
MI5 needs a new electronics expert, and Peter Chapman is the one they want. After unexpectedly losing his lecturing job at the polytechnic, Peter is left with little option but to accept MI5's offer, and become Piglet.
Season 2
A book 'The Coldest of Wars' is due to be published about 'Cold War' espionage. When Piglet reveals that his wife Sarah, who works for a publisher, has just been reading a manuscript by the same name, he and Dexter are ordered to intercept before it hits the shops.
Season 3
Piglet discovers an arms stash in a remote farmhouse. When caught, he's taken to the manor house, and is surprised to find Drummond already there.
Crew
Director
Robin Carr
Writer
Paul Minett, Brian Leveson
Producer
Robin Carr
Network
ITV1
Production
LWT
Keywords
secret agentspoofsitcom