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The Omega Connection (Original title)The London Affair (Working title)The London Connection (Alternative title)
Date: 1979 (Copyright)

Country: USA

Directed by: Robert Clouse

Synopsis: Thriller about a kidnapped, defecting, East European scientist, who is rescued by two young Americans when on holiday in London.

Genre:
Thriller
TV Transmissions
Date: 18 March 1979Country: USA
Date: 29 August 1987not specifiedTransmission time: 13:30
Date: May 1992Broadcast company: ITVCountry: United Kingdom

Credits (38)
©: Walt Disney Productions, Presents: Walt Disney Productions, Executive Producer: Ron Miller, Produced by: Jan Williams, Associate Producer: Hugh Attwooll, Production Supervisor: Basil Rayburn, Unit Manager: Teresa Bolland, Location Manager: Robert Lynn, Assistant Director: Richard Hoult, Continuity: Phyllis Townshend, Casting Director: Maude Spector, Screenplay by: Gail Morgan Hickman, David E. Boston, Story by: Gail Morgan Hickman, Story by: David E. Boston, Story by: David Assael, Story by: Joshua Brand, Martha Coolidge, Director of Photography: Godfrey Godar, Aerial Photography: Peter Allwork, Camera Operator: Jack Lowin, Supervising Editor: Peter Boita, Editor: Mike Campbell, Art Director: Jack Shampan, Assistant Art Director: Alex Cassie, Set Designer: John Roberts, Make-up: Freddie Williamson, Hairdressing: Betty Glasow, Music Composed and Conducted by: John Cameron, [Music] Recorded at: Anvil Studios, Sound Recording: Ken Osborne, Sound Recording: Ken Barker, Sound Recordist: Ken Osborne, Ken Barker, Sound Editor: Dino Di Campo, Stunt Co-ordinator: Alan Stuart, Cameras and Lenses by: Panavision
Cast (22)
Jeffrey Byron (Luther Starling), Larry Cedar (Roger Pike), Roy Kinnear (Bidley), Lee Montague (Vorg), Mona Washbourne (Aunt Lydia), David Kossoff (Professor Buchinski), Frank Windsor (McGuffin), Walter Gotell (Simmons), Nigel Davenport (Minton), Dudley Sutton (Goetz), David Battley (Peters), Julian Orchard (Driscoll), Kathleen Harrison (Elderly Lady), Percy Herbert (Ship's Captain), Don Fellows (general), Bruce Boa (colonel), Wolfe Morris (Dr. Krause), Milos Kirek (Kaplan), André Maranne (Duvalier), Rita Webb (cockney woman), George Pravda (Kolenkov), Minah Bird (narcotics agent)