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MASTERPIECE CLASSIC

The 39 Steps: Secret agent Richard Hannay battles German Spies on the eve of World War I. Sunday, February 28th, 8:00 p.m. on PBS-HD.

Rupert Penry-Jones stars as the suave, relentlessly pursued Richard Hannay, an ex-spy trying to mind his own business in the tense weeks before the outbreak of World War I. His only problem: The British police want to hang him for a murder he didn’t commit, and German agents aim to shoot him first.

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Rupert Penry-Jones

Penry-Jones is joined by Lydia Leonard as suffragette Victoria Sinclair, Hannay’s unlikely accomplice in a frantic quest to piece together a plot revealed by a spy, who drops dead in Hannay’s apartment after he hands over a coded notebook that holds a dark secret.

Masterpiece Classic

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