Hannay (TV series) released in a four-disc Region 2 DVD set by Delta Visual Entertainment in February 2006. "Hannay" was later released in a four-disc Region 2 DVD set by Network in September 2016. 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
Hannay baronets of Girthon, Kirkcudbright. m. 4 Nov. 1760, Mary, da. of Robert Meade, MD, of Teddington, Mdx., 5s. 4da. suc. e. bro. Col. Alexander Hannay, E.I. Co. service 1782. Served heir to Sir Robert Hannay, 1st Bt. (d.1658) (a baronetcy dormant since the death of the 2nd Bt. in 1689) 26 Sept. 1783. Hannay, who combined the lives of an eminent London drug merchant and a Scottish baronet with considerable East Indian investments, was also addicted to gambling, and apparently went through several fortunes. From 1765 onwards, Hannay appears merely as a merchant; but in 1790 in partnership with William Duncan