"Secret Service" Confederate Spy drama - Meryl Streep & John Lithgow

A televised version of the 1976 Phoenix Repertory Company production, which aired on PBS' Great Performances. This 1895 romantic wartime thriller by William Gillette tells the tale of a Union spy, Captain Thorne (John Lithgow), working to seize control of the telegraph office in Richmond, Virginia in 1864. Posing as a wounded Confederate captain named Thorne, the spy's false orders to a Confederate Army Commander raise the suspicions of a southern agent, who uses a local girl, Edith Varney (Meryl Streep), as his reluctant accomplice to set a trap.

“Secret Service” is Meryl Streep’s television debut, and originally aired on PBS on January 12th 1977.

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