
The Ambassador is a British television drama series produced by the BBC written by Hugh Costello. 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 Harriet's life, as well as wider political themes. Other notable cast members were Denis Lawson and Peter Egan. Two series were made between 1998 and 1999.
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Air Date: 1998-01-04
The new British Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, Harriet Smith, arrives in Dublin to discover that the Irish go...
Air Date: 1998-01-11
Ambassador Smith gives the battered British wife of a Saudi diplomat refuge in the embassy when he beats her up and a...
Air Date: 1998-01-18
When a young British girl is jailed for drug smuggling, it seems a positive start to an Anglo-Irish initiative. Then ...
Air Date: 1998-01-25
The ambassador's assistant is held hostage by a man brandishing a canister of nuclear waste, in protest at the number...
Air Date: 1998-02-01
A young rent boy found dead in a Dublin hotel bedroom, after having sex with visiting British minister David McNaught...
Air Date: 1998-02-08
MI6 fear that Smith has been targeted for assassination, but she refuses to compromise her official engagements. A fo...