Sharpe is a British television series of stories starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, with Irish actor Daragh O'Malley playing his sidekick Patrick Harper. Sharpe and Harper are the heroes of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell. The series originally ran from 1993 to 1997.
In 2006, ITV premiered Sharpe's Challenge, a two-part TV film adventure loosely based on his time in India, with Sean Bean continuing his role as Sharpe. It is a usually shown in two parts, and is set in 1817, two years after Sharpe has retired as a farmer in Normandy.
In Sharpe's Challenge and Sharpe's Peril, Sharpe and his comrade in arms, Patrick Harper, have been temporarily called out of retirement and asked to go to India.
