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Cold Warrior

  • 1984
  • Ended
  • Drama
  • ~30m / ep
  • 1 season
  • 7.0/10

Cold Warrior is a 1984 BBC One television series written by Arden Winch, based around the character of Captain Aubrey Percival (Michael Denison), first introduced in the 1981 thriller serial Blood Money. Moving away from the serial format of Blood Money and Skorpion, Cold Warrior consists of eight standalone episodes, which sees Percival dealing with various threats to national security.

Latest: Miniseries · 1984

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  1. E1. Bright Sting

    Sep 12, 1984

    Arms dealer Giles de Vere is prompting NATO's latest weapon known as "Bright Star". Captain Percival has got wind that de Vere selling to the Soviets, via Switzerland so has tampered with the missile on a routine check..

  2. E2. Dead Wrong

    Sep 19, 1984

    Journalist Malcolm Russell gives out addresses of British intelligence operatives in a newspaper article. Ewan Benman's friend is murdered and he wants revenge. Cap. Percival needs to Russell alive for the greater good.

  3. E3. What's Good for General Bullmoose

    Sep 26, 1984

    Sir Robert Constable dies in a taxi on the way to meet Krotkin, USSR spy. Captain Percival believes he is not what he seems and conspires with CIA officer Colonel Elliott to give the Soviet Union what they believe they are getting.

  4. E4. The Man from Damascus

    Oct 3, 1984

    Syria terrorist Dr. Mohammed Riffi thinks he is dying from Berners Syndrome and travels to Rome, without bodyguards, to see his daughter. On the train he meets Capt. Percival who uses his religious believes to his own ends.

  5. E5. The Immigrants

    Oct 10, 1984

    Two fake British passports flag up a possible terrorist attack using a bomb. Learning that the pair came via Turkey, Capt. Percival and his team gamble that the attack is meant for a hard line Israeli minister going to Checkers.

  6. E6. The Sprat

    Oct 17, 1984

    Soviet civil servant Yuri Semanov wants to defect to the British as a major source of information. Unsure, Capt. Percival puts together a dossier that would see him shot as a traitor but enough to make a valuable asset in future.

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