The BEST episodes of The Sandbaggers season 3
Every episode of The Sandbaggers season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Sandbaggers season 3!
"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".
#1 - Sometimes We Play Dirty Too
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/7/1980
When a British intelligence source is killed in an accident in Prague, Caine is sent in to find out what really happened while Wallace and Burnside look for clues at home.
#2 - All in a Good Cause
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/9/1980
CIA Head of London Station Jeff Ross asks for Burnside's help when Ross' marriage is in trouble, but then Burnside starts to suspect that the KGB and MI5 have an interest in that marriage as well.
#3 - To Hell with Justice
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/16/1980
SIS Director of Intelligence Edward Tyler meets a suspicious woman while on holiday in Malta, so Burnside secretly sends the Sandbaggers to keep an eye on him.
#4 - Unusual Approach
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/23/1980
'C' orders Burnside to go on a working holiday in Rhodes, and while he's gone, Ross asks Caine for some risky backup in the USSR, but as Acting D.Ops., Caine would have to send Wallace.
#5 - My Name Is Anna Wiseman
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/30/1980
Burnside tries to get approval to plant a woman in the Soviet Union as a long-term double agent, but he neglects to mention that her real mission is short-term human rights propaganda.
#6 - Who Needs Enemies
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/14/1980
When a rival for Burnside's job gets hold of a CIA document that describes Burnside as a divisive influence, SIS upper management contrives to promote Burnside ``sideways'' to Madrid.
#7 - Opposite Numbers
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/28/1980
Burnside is opposed to an East-West arms treaty being negotiated in Malta, so he and the Sandbaggers conspire to scuttle the talks by encouraging a Soviet double agent to defect.