Film:
DVD:

Series Created by Ian Mackintosh
Starring Roy Marsden, Ray Lonnen, Bob Sherman, Alan MacNaughtan, Elizabeth Bennett

Features:

• All seven first season episodes
• A Guide to Sandbaggers Abbreviations

Released by: BFS Video.
Rating: NR
Region: 1
Anamorphic: N/A; appears in its original 1.33:1 format.

My Advice: Own It.

Neil Burnside (Marsden) is a ruthless, cynically, manipulative bastard. Which is what you need in a Director of Operations for MI6, the foreign intelligence arm of Her Majesty's Government. He's the one who sends out Sandbaggers, elite operatives like Willie Caine (Lonnen) and Laura Dickens (Diane Keen) that leave for foreign countries at a moment's notice on covert operations that range from preventing defections of British VIPs to carrying out assassinations of other country's VIPs. Burnside not only has to fight the forces of international Communism and global terrorism, but also his own government, which seems mired in party power politics, bureaucracy, and moral hand-wringing. He does have (somewhat) trusty allies in Sir Geoffrey Wellingham (MacNaughtan), his contact in the government and former father in law. There is also his contact at the CIA, Jeff Ross (Sherman) and even his sarcastic secretary Diane Lawley (Bennett). But the responsibility of The Sandbaggers falls to Burnside alone when he decides to send them out in the Cold War, even to their death.

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