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The Sandbaggers Season 3

June. 09,1980

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The Sandbaggers

The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.

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Roy Marsden, Richard Vernon

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The Sandbaggers Season 3 Full Episode Guide

Episode 7 - Opposite Numbers

First Aired: July. 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.

Episode 6 - Who Needs Enemies

First Aired: July. 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.

Episode 5 - Sometimes We Play Dirty Too

First Aired: July. 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.

Episode 4 - My Name Is Anna Wiseman

First Aired: June. 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.

Episode 3 - Unusual Approach

First Aired: June. 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.

Episode 2 - To Hell with Justice

First Aired: June. 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.

Episode 1 - All in a Good Cause

First Aired: June. 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.

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