The State Within is a six-part British television political thriller serial written and created by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival, broadcast on BBC One from 2 November to 7 December 2006. After a plane explodes over Washington DC, panic begins to envelop the British embassy, and its ambassador to Washington, Mark Brydon, finds himself caught in a potentially damaging diplomatic incident.

• Jason Isaacs
• Ben Daniels
• Eva Birthistle
• Aaron Abrams
• Neil Pearson
• Genevieve O'Reilly
• Sharon Gless
• Noam Jenkins