"The best spy series in television history."
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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To prevent Iran from going nuclear, intelligence officer John Tavner must forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous "non-official cover" -- that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping firm.
The story of a young Louis XIV on his journey to become the most powerful monarch in Europe, from his battles with the fronde through his development into the Sun King. Historical and fictional characters guide us in a world of betrayal and political maneuvering, revealing Versailles in all its glory and brutality.
A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.
During the height of the Cold War, Victor Godeanu, the right-hand man and closest advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, and secret agent for the KGB, must escape Romania and Ceaușescu before his cover is blown. Helped by an undercover Stasi agent and an up-and-coming CIA agent, Godeanu must elude the KGB and his own country’s spooks, fully aware that his defection is putting his family back home in mortal danger.
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
Yusuke Nogi of Ryosho's Energy Development Division said that 10 times the official down payment was mistakenly sent to GFL, a local infrastructure company involved in a solar energy plant to be built in the Balkan Republic in Central Asia. Suspected of involvement, he heads to the Balkan Republic to collect the difference of $90 million. With the cooperation of his CIA friend Sam, Nogi obtained information that the terrorist al-Zaer had laundered the full amount of the contract money into diamonds and brought it out.
A British intelligence officer races against time to uncover a UK politician's potential ties with the Kremlin, risking her reputation and family, as a murder and election loom.
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.
The Missiles of October is a 1974 docudrama made-for-television play about the Cuban missile crisis. The title evokes the book The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman about the missteps among the great powers and the failed chances to give an opponent a graceful way out, which led to the First World War. The teleplay introduced William Devane as John F. Kennedy and cast Martin Sheen as United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The script is based on Robert Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The story of the Medici family of Florence, their ascent from simple merchants to power brokers sparking an economic and cultural revolution. Along the way, they also accrue a long list of powerful enemies.
In this expansion of the For All Mankind universe, experience the "what if" take on the global space race from the Soviet Union perspective. Go behind the Iron Curtain, where it's more dangerous on the ground than in space.
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In an alternate world, the Cold War has continued to persist for 140 years. As a result, the world was divided into two factions: the West Block, and the East Block. As the Cold War drags on, the tension between the two factions, as well as the amount of nuclear weapons they have, rise. Mylene Hoffman is a female cyborg who is a spy for the West Block. Together with three other agents, Mylene partakes in various missions issued by her superiors.
Betray your country, save the world. Spies and traitors play a dangerous game in the 1980s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.
Ewa Oginiec wants to leave the secret service and start over after a personal tragedy but things take a turn when her partner, also an agent, is exposed by Russian intelligence and mysteriously disappears.
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
The Company tells the thrilling story of Cold War CIA agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy – and each other – in an internecine battle within the Company itself.
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7 episodes • 1978
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | First Principles | Sep 18, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 2 | A Proper Function of Government | Sep 25, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Is Your Journey Really Necessary? | Oct 2, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Most Suitable Person | Oct 9, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Always Glad to Help | Oct 16, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 6 | A Feasible Solution | Oct 23, 1978 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Special Relationship | Oct 30, 1978 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 1980
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At All Costs | Jan 28, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Enough of Ghosts | Feb 4, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Decision by Committee | Feb 11, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 4 | A Question of Loyalty | Feb 18, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 5 | It Couldn't Happen Here | Feb 25, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Operation Kingmaker | Mar 3, 1980 | 0.0 |
7 episodes • 1980
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
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| 1 | All in a Good Cause | Jun 9, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 2 | To Hell with Justice | Jun 16, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Unusual Approach | Jun 23, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 4 | My Name Is Anna Wiseman | Jun 30, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Sometimes We Play Dirty Too | Jul 7, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Who Needs Enemies | Jul 14, 1980 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Opposite Numbers | Jul 28, 1980 | 0.0 |