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The Hamburg police arrest an international businessman, charging him with smuggling heroin from Pakistan. While he's on trial, his trophy wife, a former Olympic swimmer, discovers steely ruthlessness within herself. In Pakistan, the British home minister tours the poppy-eradication project and returns to London to find that his daughter is a heroin addict. While trying to save her, and helped by a crusading attorney, he learns the limits of government policy. Fazal, a peasant burned off his land where he farmed poppies, goes to Karachi and works for Tarik Butt, a murderous drug lord. Fazal's frankness and sense of worth are his strength and his liability. Stories cross and collide.

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Bill Paterson
Jack Lithgow
Lindsay Duncan
Helen Rosshalde
Fritz Muller-Scherz
Ulli

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

The Farmer

49 mins

Jack Lithgow is a British government minister who travels to Pakistan to discuss a new aid agreement aimed at reducing opium production in the country which farmers cultivate it and local organized crime figures harness it for heroin production for worldwide distribution. Jack also encounters Fazal, a local poppy farmer in the North-West Frontier provinces who grows opium poppies since the local drug traffickers give him huge amounts of cash for the sale of the crop. But when the Pakistani Army arrives to destroy the fields, Fazal finds himself out of work. Meanwhile in Hamburg, Germany, Karl is a high-profile businessman who gets arrested for drug trafficking which stuns his British wife, Helen, who does not know about his secret work of drug trafficking on the sides.

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Awards

  • 1990 - Broadcasting Press Guild Award - Best Drama Series - winner
  • 1990 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Drama Series/Serial - winner
  • 1990 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Film Editor - nominated
  • 1990 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Design - winner

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