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Buy the sandbaggers the complete series from zavvi, the home of pop culture. The complete series is also available on ntsc videotapes, in three sets. Neil burnside, the director of operations for britains secret intelligence service, objects to sending his best agents, the sandbaggers, on a. Networks complete 3season boxed set is one of the best purchases i ever made. The sandbaggers is a taut british spy series comprising twenty 50minute episodes produced by yorkshire television, an itv franchise i. It scrutinises the consequences of the undercover undertakings on the private and professional lives of british and american intelligence professionals. This 70s spy drama about a cold war dirty tricks department is cynical, tough and has a compelling star in roy marsdens. The sandbaggers is available to stream on free services and britbox. The sandbaggers, a british spy drama that aired just 20 episodes between 1978 and 1980, is handsdown the best tv show ever about espionage.
Benedict cumberbatch on tinker, tailor, soldier, spy venice film festival. The stories centered on the elite covert operations section of british intelligence, nicknamed the sandbaggers, and their boss, neil burnside. Brenda cavendish and roy marsden in the sandbaggers 1978 roy. Additional exterior scenes were filmed in london, belgium and malta. The sandbaggers was a taut british spy series comprising twenty 50minute episodes produced by yorkshire television. Operation sandbaggers, or sandbaggers for short, is about getting together and having fun more than winning anything. Roy marsden stars as neil burnside, director of the sandbaggers a small, elite department of the british secret service, whose job is to take on the dirty tricks. The ladies are not going to take this laying down and track down the thieves and take them out one by one in both sexual and violent ways. One of the more offthewall selections weve featured of late, this short feature 42 minutes by mitch f. The acting is good, the scripts and verisimilitude superb.
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