The Sandbaggers

"The Sandbaggers" was a taut British spy series comprising twenty 50-minute episodes produced by Yorkshire Television. The stories centered on the elite covert operations section of British Intelligence, nicknamed the Sandbaggers, and their boss, Neil Burnside (Roy Marsden), himself a former Sandbagger, but now having to battle more with British bureaucracy than 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. Burnside's main operative is Willie Caine, his most experienced agent. Burnside's main opponents in the series are not his KGB adversaries but the bureaucrats and functionaries of his own government, often his own superiors. He he is constatly at odds his his Deputy Chief and occasinally with the head of the Secret Service codenamed "C".

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 77420
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired September 18, 1978
  • Recent November 1, 2002
  • Airs Monday, at 9:00pm
  • Network ITV1
  • Average Runtime 50 minutes
  • Genres Drama Thriller
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com
  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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  • Created February 4, 2008 by
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  • Modified January 23, 2023 by
    cundallini
Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials November 1972 November 2002 5
Season 1 September 1978 October 1978 7
Season 2 January 1980 March 1980 6
Season 3 June 1980 July 1980 7
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 25
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 25

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