Original title
The Wrong Mans
Released
9/24/2013
Origin country
GB
Genre
Comedy
Production companies
BBC
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
2
Number of episodes
8
Comedy thriller about two well-meaning idiots who become entangled in a hideous world of crime, conspiracy and corruption.
Sam Pinkett and Phil Bourne, office workers for Berkshire County Council, have their menial existence turned upside-down by a chance phone-call and a case of mistaken identity. After being sole witness to a car crash on a desolate country road, Sam answers an abandoned mobile telephone and hears a message that was clearly not meant for him: "If you are not here by 5 o'clock, we will kill your wife". Encouraged by office mail-room delivery boy Phil that they can be the heroes of the hour, the duo soon find themselves plunged into a deadly kidnap situation.
A case of mistaken identity catapults two council employees into a conspiracy.
Sam and Phil are sent to rescue a hostage but end up with an angry hostage of their own.
Sam and Phil fall deeper into a sinister world of agents and double agents.
Sam and Phil gatecrash a party and interrupt an assassination plot.
Sam and Phil bring the dangerous plot right to their doorsteps and nowhere is safe.
Sam and Phil are now on the run, on the edge and on each other's nerves.
Sam and Phil embark on an international quest to prove once again they are The Wrong Mans.
Sam and Phil embark on an international quest to prove once again they are The Wrong Mans.
With enemies amassing, Sam and Phil must risk everything to make it back home.
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