The Sandbaggers

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

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Season 1
1x1
First Principles
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 18, 1978
Neil Burnside, the Director of Operations for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, objects to sending his best agents, the Sandbaggers, on a mission into Russia for Norway's Secret Service.
1x2
A Proper Function of Government
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 25, 1978
The Sandbaggers may be sent to Vienna to keep tabs on a possible defector, while Burnside tries to get official approval to assassinate an African dictator.
1x3
Is Your Journey Really Necessary?
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 02, 1978
Alan Denson threatens to quit the Sandbaggers after a rough, unauthorized mission near the Soviet border, so Burnside applies pressure to Denson's fiancee
1x4
The Most Suitable Person
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 09, 1978
Sandbagger One Willie Caine goes to Gibraltar to investigate the murder of an SIS agent, and potential new Sandbagger Laura Dickens goes to Morocco to get more clues in the case.
1x5
Always Glad to Help
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 16, 1978
Dickens is assigned to find out where an Arab sheik's sympathies lie while Burnside clashes with Deputy Chief Matthew Peele and the Ministry of Defence over a covert scuba-diving operation.
1x6
A Feasible Solution
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 23, 1978
Caine and an agent fresh out of field school go to Cyprus on the trail of some missing rocket scientists while Neil lets his romantic guard down at home.
1x7 Season finale
Special Relationship
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 30, 1978
Laura Dickens is the most qualified agent for a risky mission in East Berlin and Burnside has to double-deal to make sure her presence there won't pose other security risks as well.

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