Game, Set, and Match

Overview

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.

Episodes

S01E01 Episode 1 Berlin Game: Part 1

October 3, 1988 60 min
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...

S01E02 Episode 2 Berlin Game: Part 2

October 3, 1988 60 min
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.

S01E03 Episode 3 Berlin Game: Part 3

October 10, 1988 60 min
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.

S01E04 Episode 4 Berlin Game: Part 4

October 17, 1988 60 min
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.

S01E05 Episode 5 Berlin Game: Part 5

October 24, 1988 60 min
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.

S01E06 Episode 6 Mexico Set: Part 1

October 31, 1988 60 min
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.

S01E07 Episode 7 Mexico Set: Part 2

November 7, 1988 60 min
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) tries to prove his own loyalty by master-minding an operation to secure the defection of a KGB officer from Mexico.

S01E08 Episode 8 Mexico Set: Part 3

November 14, 1988 60 min
Samson's father-in-law threatens legal action to secure custody of the children. Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) receives a surprise visitor. Mackenzie is found dead in an MI6 safe house.

S01E09 Episode 9 Mexico Set: Part 4

November 21, 1988 60 min
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) is caught in a deadly spiral of distrust and violence, and his actions lead to a death in custody.

S01E10 Episode 10 Mexico Set: Part 5

November 28, 1988 60 min
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) goes to Mexico to try to turn Stinnes.

S01E11 Episode 11 London Match: Part 1

December 5, 1988 60 min
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) attends a lavish Christmas party in Berlin, in the hunt for a traitor. Stinnes offers information about a KGB spy cell operating in Oxford.

S01E12 Episode 12 London Match: Part 2

December 12, 1988 60 min
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) and Gloria are babysitting Soviet defector Stinnes in London, but developments at London Central lead to a deadly turn of events.

S01E13 Episode 13 London Match: Part 3

December 19, 1988 60 min
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) has to oversee one last operation to trap the KGB, and to test the sincerity of Stinnes's defection.

Cast

Ian Holm
Ian Holm
Bernard Samson
Michael Culver
Michael Culver
Dicky Cruyer
Gail Harrison
Gail Harrison
Tessa Kozinski
Anthony Bate
Anthony Bate
Bret Renssalaer
Michael Degen
Michael Degen
Werner Volkmann
Frederick Treves
Frank Harrington
Brigitte Karner
Brigitte Karner
Zena Volkmann
Gottfried John
Gottfried John
Erich Stinnes
Anthony Schaeffer
Albert

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