AS SEEN ON TV: RICHARD HANNAY

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RICHARD HANNAY

AS SEEN IN:

'Hannay'

CREATED BY:

John Buchan

(in 'The 39 Steps')

PORTRAYED BY:
Robert Powell

TV STATUS:

Multiversal

(BookWorld, Cineverse, Toobworld)

TV DIMENSION:

Earth Prime-Time

From Wikipedia:

Major-General Sir Richard Hannay, KCB, OBE, DSO, Legion of Honour, is a fictional secret agent and army officer created by Scottish novelist John Buchan. In his autobiography, Memory Hold-the-Door, Buchan suggests that the character is based, in part, on Edmund Ironside, from Edinburgh, a spy during the Second Boer War.

'Hannay' was a 1988 spin-off from the 1978 film version of John Buchan's novel The Thirty-Nine Steps which had starred Robert Powell as Richard Hannay.

In the series, Powell reprised the role of Hannay, an Edwardian mining engineer from Rhodesia of Scottish origin. It features his adventures in pre-World War I Great Britain. These stories had little in common with John Buchan's novels about the character, although some character names are taken from his other novels.

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