Top billed cast

1. 

   Toby Stephens

   Samuel Petrukhin

2. 

   Keeley Hawes

   Kathleen Shaw

3. 

   Linus Roache

   Richard Shaw

4. 

   Mark Bonnar

   Field

5. 

   Lucy Cohu

   Miriam Petrukhin

6. 

   Claire Bloom

   Aunt Mary

7. 

   Lily Sacofsky

   Hannah Petrukhin

8. 

   Timothy Spall

   Lord Arthur Wallington

9. 

   Gary Beadle

   Courtney Johnson

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Current Season

Season 1

2019 | 6 Episodes

Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn

Written by Peter McGinn on 2020-04-04

I enjoyed this series, mostly, especially the way it represented the 50s era, which to me sometimes feels more ignored than the decades of the 40s and 60s. I felt the acting was very good and the writing mostly good. Every major character is given a subplot, which I usually found realistic and entertaining.

One review I read pointed out that the movie suffered from being politically correct, and I always worry about that description. That reviewer was unhappy that white men made up all the bad guys. Perhaps the black man kissing a white woman struck him as unlikely in that era. I had no pr...read the rest

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7. Debris70%
8. Under the Dome71%
9. The Pretender73%
10. Salvation65%
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12. Resurrection72%
13. Genius74%
14. John Doe72%
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20. Project Blue Book81%

Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
Summer of Rockets

Keywords

• inventor
• deaf-mute
• deaf
• cold war
• russian immigrant 
• mi5
• jewish family
• debutante
• missing son
• english upper class
• hearing aid