The Sandbaggers

  • Premiered: Sep 1978
  • Episodes: 20
  • Followers: 3
  • Ended
  • ITV1
  • Monday at 21
  • Drama Thriller

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Season 3
3x1
All in a Good Cause
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 09, 1980
CIA Head of London Station Jeff Ross asks for Burnside's help when Ross' marriage is in trouble, but then Burnside starts to suspect that the KGB and MI5 have an interest in that marriage as well.
3x2
To Hell with Justice
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 16, 1980
SIS Director of Intelligence Edward Tyler meets a suspicious woman while on holiday in Malta, so Burnside secretly sends the Sandbaggers to keep an eye on him.
3x3
Unusual Approach
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 23, 1980
'C' orders Burnside to go on a working holiday in Rhodes, and while he's gone, Ross asks Caine for some risky backup in the USSR, but as Acting D.Ops., Caine would have to send Wallace.
3x4
My Name Is Anna Wiseman
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 30, 1980
Burnside tries to get approval to plant a woman in the Soviet Union as a long-term double agent, but he neglects to mention that her real mission is short-term human rights propaganda.
3x5
Sometimes We Play Dirty Too
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 07, 1980
When a British intelligence source is killed in an accident in Prague, Caine is sent in to find out what really happened while Wallace and Burnside look for clues at home.
3x6
Who Needs Enemies
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 14, 1980
When a rival for Burnside's job gets hold of a CIA document that describes Burnside as a divisive influence, SIS upper management contrives to promote Burnside ``sideways'' to Madrid.
3x7 Show finale
Opposite Numbers
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 28, 1980
Burnside is opposed to an East-West arms treaty being negotiated in Malta, so he and the Sandbaggers conspire to scuttle the talks by encouraging a Soviet double agent to defect.

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