S01E01 Episode 1
In the opening episode, Harry's offices are attacked by someone with a grudge. He hires a young reporter to share his workload. His relationship with his antiques-dealer wife keeps his feet on the ground. He...
Harry
S01E05: Episode 5
There is dissension in the ranks at News Associates. Harry criticises the team's productivity but they respond in kind. Jonathan and Alice decide to follow up a story about a young girl whose parents are launching a £250,000 appeal to send her to Pittsburgh for a life-saving operation. When other press fail to turn up, the father turns the staff of the diner into hostages. Harry decides to manipulate the situation, with unexpected results.
Overview
Harry is a television drama series that was made by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC One between 1993 and 1995. Harry Salter is the ruthless owner of a news agency in Darlington who will resort to any under-hand means or exploit anyone in order to get a story that he can sell to a newspaper. He is assisted at his agency by Alice, his secretary/PA, and Snappy, his photographer.
Episodes
S01E02 Episode 2
Harry rescues an ageing driver who is being towed along the A1 at 90mph. Harry puts a spin on the story of a Vietnamese man with a deportation order hanging over him. Out with a...
S01E03 Episode 3
Three grave robbers open a hermetically sealed ciffin and think they've got the plague. An old man with Alzheimer's disease is dumped in a car park. Harry imagines his international horizons are widening when an...
S01E04 Episode 4
When an ex-army officer is murdered on his patch, Harry goes off in hot pursuit of IRA suspects, intent on selling the story to the national press. He finds the real villain is somewhat nearer...
S01E05 Episode 5
There is dissension in the ranks at News Associates. Harry criticises the team's productivity but they respond in kind. Jonathan and Alice decide to follow up a story about a young girl whose parents are...
S01E06 Episode 6
Harry is in deep trouble with the law after interfering in a serious hostage incident. Harry wants to go to trial against his solicitor's advice.
S01E07 Episode 7
Harry is released from jail and is immediately back on the case with a story about chemical pollution. They follow a police car and witness a crazed man breaking up a glamour photographer's flat. Further...
S01E08 Episode 8
Harry gets the chance to impress an important Italian client, and uses a fictional story. At the same time he has an exclusive interview with a top footballer, but has problems making him sound interesting....
S01E09 Episode 9
Harry researches for a newspaper article on the death of a well-respected policeman, and finds that he was involved in a murder trial with Masonic entanglements.
S01E10 Episode 10
Harry arranges a surprise party to celebrate the broadcast of Jonathan's video diaries, but finds out that he is not portrayed very well in them. His friendship with a policeman is still teetering after Harry...
S01E11 Episode 11
Harry finds out that his local MP is having an affair with the Foreign Secretary and disappears to Spain with a photographer to take pictures of her cavorting with the Minister by a pool.
S01E12 Episode 12
Harry and his photographer, Archer, throw a party for Fleet Street journalists to announce his scoop expose of a female MP's foreign affair with her boss. However, he manages to upset his wife and his...
Cast
Michael Elphick
Harry Salter
Ian Bartholomew
Snappy
Julie Graham
Alice
Tom Hollander
Jonathan
David Roper
Nick
Alphonsia Emmanuel
Cheryl
Ozzie Yue
Tommy
