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The Sandbaggers
THE SANDBAGGERS is a taut British spy series comprising twenty 50-minute episodes produced by Yorkshire Television, an ITV franchise (i.e., a commercial regional British television franchise). The stories centered on the elite covert operations section of British Intelligence, nicknamed the Sandbaggers, and their boss, Neil Burnside, himself a former Sandbagger but now having to battle more with British bureaucracy than with enemy agents. It was set contemporaneously with its original broadcast in the late '70s and early '80s when the Cold War still dominated the Western intelligence agenda.
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Episode 1
All in a Good Cause
51 mins
Neil Burnside is advised by his colleague Edward Tyler, the Director of Intelligence, that the domestic security service, MI5, has targeted the wife the London CIA Station Chief Jeff Ross. When Jeff subsequently confirms that he and his wife have hit a rough patch in their relationship, Burnside is concerned that his friend's wife may have fallen into the hands of a KGB agent. What he learns is that there is a far more complex game being played. Burnside also has to deal with the new "C", someone with whom he crossed swords in the past. The latest issue is the proposed closure of the SIS Station in the Caribbean and Burnside's view that not enough is being done to save it.