premise: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy stars a parrot.
hypothesis: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film) . The film , starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley , along with Colin Firth , Tom Hardy , John Hurt , Toby Jones , Mark Strong , Benedict Cumberbatch , and Ciarán Hinds , is set in London in the early 1970s and follows the hunt for a Soviet double agent at the top of the British secret service . Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (miniseries) . The mini-series , which stars Alec Guinness , Ian Richardson , Michael Jayston , Anthony Bate , Ian Bannen , George Sewell , and Michael Aldridge , was shown in the United Kingdom from 10 September to 22 October 1979 and in the United States beginning on 29 September 1980 .