Watch Masterpiece Season 40 Episode 8: Sharpe's Peril

PBS's longest running (and most honored) dramatic series is an Anglophile's delight, featuring British adaptations of literary classics and original works. The first `Masterpiece' was `The First Churchills,' and since then it has won nine Peabodys and 29 Emmys (beginning with Susan Hampshire's Best Actress award for `Churchills'). Its many memorable pro (more…)

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Season 40, Episode 8 Sharpe's Peril

First Aired: April 4, 2010

In "Sharpe's Peril," the British lieutenant colonel and buddy Harper undertake what they think will be a simple mission in India: escorting the fiancée (Beatrice Rosen) of a major (Pascal Langdale). It's not to be, of course, as bandits attack them, forcing them to make an alliance with a rag-tag group that's led by a boy-soldier (Luke Ward Wilkinson). Barabbas Hakeswill: Amit Behl.

Guest Cast

Raza Jaffrey Lance Naik Singh

Jonathan Moore Rev. Watkin

Caroline Carver Mrs. Tredinnick

Michael Cochrane Sir Henry Simmerson

Beatrice Rosen Marie-Angelique Bonnet

Velibor Topic Col. Dragomirov

Chucky Venice Deever

Nandana Sen Maharani Padmini

Steve Speirs Wormwood

Daragh O'Malley Patrick Harper

Luke Ward-Wilkinson Ens. Percival Beauciere

David Henry Viscount Sedgefield

Sean Bean Richard Sharpe

Rajesh Khattar Subedar Pillai

David Robb Maj. Tredinnick

Amit Behl Corp. Barabbas Hakeswill

Deepak Jethi Daffadar Kapoor

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Premiered: January 10, 1971
Rating: TV-PG
Premise: PBS's longest running (and most honored) dramatic series is an Anglophile's delight, featuring British adaptations of literary classics and original works. The first `Masterpiece' was `The First Churchills,' and since then it has won nine Peabodys and 29 E… (more)