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Labros Kotsiris Georgios as Georgios …. Michael J. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Connections Featured in Top of the Pops: Episode User reviews 4 Review.

Top review. An Excellent TV Series. I recall watching it each week in New Zealand. At times it seems to meander along a bit and the second episode I didn't like. However, it captures the Greek culture nicely and builds to quite a finale.

Details Edit. Release date November 7, United Kingdom. United Kingdom Greece. Spinalonga Island, Crete, Greece. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 50 minutes. The eight episodes were written by Michael J. Bird and first transmitted November 7, to December 26, He used his knowledge of Crete, where the series is based, incorporating local history and folklore. Helped by stunning scenery, the serial became a success when transmitted on BBC1 in Alan Haldane Jack Hedley , an ex-soldier, returns to Crete, to take stock after his boat-building business is bought out, thirty years after he had fought alongside the local resistance andartes during the Second World War; his skill and determination earned him the honorary name of "Leandros" and his exploits subsequently slipping into local legend.

He'd also enjoyed an affair with co-partisan Melina Matakis, from whom he temporarily parted when repatriation took place. Once back in England his letters to Melina went unanswered; hence, this temporary parting became permanent. Back on Crete, Haldane meets local homeowner, Annika Betty Arvaniti with whom he has an instant rapport. He then meets up with his Greek "brother" from the war, a lawyer named Babis Spiridakis Neil McCarthy from whom he discovers that Melina had written to Alan and had died four years ago.

Melina had been pregnant with Alan's child, who now runs a taverna with her husband, and she, herself, has a daughter. The magical bond between Haldane and Annika gets immediately complicated when Babis tells Haldane that Annika is actually the sister of Melina, therefore his daughter's aunt. Leandros determines to get to know his daughter and grandchild without any of them knowing. And he can never tell Annika, with whom he is falling deeply in love, because what he knows would tear everyone's world apart.

In addition, those who still hold age-old vendettas plot against Leandros, such as Annika's matriarchal mother. The stage is set for a Greek tragedy, in which all parts were cast many years earlier, to play right out to the bitter end.