
Game, Set, and Match
BERLIN GAME. MEXICO SET. LONDON MATCH.
- 1988
- Ended
- Drama
- ~1h / ep
- 1 season
- 7.8/10
Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to Berlin to bring out a Brahms agent. He is then sent to Mexico to try to persuade a KGB major (Gottfried John) to defect, using his childhood friend Verner Volkmann's wife Zena as bait. After it appears another traitor is working at London Central, Samson himself becomes one of the prime suspects.
Latest: Miniseries · 1988
View all seasonsE1. Episode 1 Berlin Game: Part 1
Oct 3, 1988 · 60m
Bernard Samson has spent most of his life in Berlin. Following in his late father's footsteps, he worked for British Intelligence during the Cold War period. After losing a member of his East German spy group while trying to cross back into West Berlin, he loses his nerve and has spent the last few years behind a desk in London. The other members of his Intelligence group are Oxford- and Cambridge-bred bureaucrats with no field experience. Bernard is an anachronism, a dinosaur -but they need him. There is a mole working in London Central leaking secrets to the Russians. Bernard is called out of semi-retirement to go back to Berlin and make contact with his old spy group and try to find out who the mole is. But who can be trusted? He calls upon his oldest friend Werner Volkmann for help.
E2. Episode 2 Berlin Game: Part 2
Oct 3, 1988 · 60m
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) has returned to Berlin with a mission to sniff out a suspected traitor who threatens the security of his Brahms network.
E3. Episode 3 Berlin Game: Part 3
Oct 10, 1988 · 60m
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) finds double-dealing on both sides of the Berlin Wall, but uncovers the identity of the suspected mole in the Foreign Office.
E4. Episode 4 Berlin Game: Part 4
Oct 17, 1988 · 60m
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) confronts the suspected mole in the Foreign Office. Meanwhile, in Berlin, Volkmann and his wife are playing a curious game of intrigue and deception.
E5. Episode 5 Berlin Game: Part 5
Oct 24, 1988 · 60m
The suspected mole has been killed, and a traitor in London Central itself is implicated. Samson goes to East Berlin to investigate, but the KGB are prepared for his arrival.
E6. Episode 6 Mexico Set: Part 1
Oct 31, 1988 · 60m
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) is a marked man following the exposure of his wife, Fiona, as a traitor. Meanwhile, a KGB agent in Mexico wants to defect to the west.
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