When her doctor recommends that a widow pursues her unfulfilled life ambitions, he doesn't realize that she has always wanted to be a spy. Sending a letter to her congressman gets her an interview with the CIA and accidentally gets her an assignment to Morocco for a supposed easy task of picking up an encrypted code book. When the agency realizes their mistake, they send a super-agent to watch over her. Both are taken prisoner and the real agent is injured, leaving Mrs. Pollifax to use her considerable wits to help them escape and to save the day. Angela Lansbury ... Mrs. Emily Pollifax Thomas Ian Griffith ... Jack Farrell Ed Bishop ... Carstairs Paul Birchard ... Bishop Michelle Read ... Alice Tommy O'Neill ... Franz Paul Kennedy ... Hans Joseph Long ... Aleksei Yagoda Gerry O'Brien ... Haggarty John Light ... Robin Hughes-Wright Todd Boyce ... Mason Patricia Martin ... Lady Palisibury