Hannay (TV series) Hannay (TV series) Hannay was a 1988 ITV television series, a spin-off from the 1978 film version of John Buchan's novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps". The film and series starred Robert Powell as Richard Hannay. In the series, Powell reprised the role of Hannay, an Edwardian mining engineer from Rhodesia of Scottish origin. It features his adventures in pre-World War I Great Britain. These stories had little in common with John Buchan's novels about the character, although some character names are taken from his other novels. There were two series, the first with six episodes, the second with seven. "Hannay" was
Richard Luce (surgeon) Richard Luce (surgeon) Major-General Sir Richard Harman Luce (13 July 1867 – 21 February 1952) was a medical doctor who during World War I served as the Director of Medical Services of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and was promoted to the rank of Major-General. He was elected MP for Derby in 1924. Sir Richard Luce, as he became, was for many years the senior surgeon and later the consulting surgeon to the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary. He had studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, gaining a first class honours in natural science. As a student at Guy's Hospital in London, he qualified