| The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Written by | Bernard McKenna Richard Laing |
| Directed by | Bryan Izzard |
| Starring | David Jason Noel Coleman Michael Stainton |
| Theme music composer | Sam Fonteyn |
| Opening theme | "Defective Detective" |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Humphrey Barclay |
| Production company | London Weekend |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 15 September – 20 December 1974 |
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The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs is a 25-minute British television comedy series created by Bernard McKenna and Richard Laing and produced by Humphrey Barclay for LWT. It was transmitted on the ITV network in 1974 and featured David Jason as the inept Edgar Briggs, personal assistant to the Commander of the British Secret Intelligence Service[1] who, in spite of his cluelessness (and ineptness), manages to solve case after case.
- ^ Dave Rogers, The ITV Encyclopedia of Adventure, page 564, ISBN 9781852832179, pub 1988 by Boxtree Ltd for TV Times Publications, somewhere in the UK.