• Air date: 03 Oct '88 13 episodes
      Bernard Samson is a spy in the employ of SIS, London Central. His wife Fiona defects to the East.
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. Episode 1 Berlin Game: Part 1

      03 Oct '88
      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
    • 2. Episode 2 Berlin Game: Part 2

      03 Oct '88
      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.
    • 3. Episode 3 Berlin Game: Part 3

      10 Oct '88
      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.
    • 4. Episode 4 Berlin Game: Part 4

      17 Oct '88
      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.
    • 5. Episode 5 Berlin Game: Part 5

      24 Oct '88
      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.
    • 6. Episode 6 Mexico Set: Part 1

      31 Oct '88
      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.
    • 7. Episode 7 Mexico Set: Part 2

      07 Nov '88
      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.
    • 8. Episode 8 Mexico Set: Part 3

      14 Nov '88
      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.
    • 9. Episode 9 Mexico Set: Part 4

      21 Nov '88
      Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) is caught in a deadly spiral of distrust and violence, and his actions lead to a death in custody.
    • 10. Episode 10 Mexico Set: Part 5

      28 Nov '88
      Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) goes to Mexico to try to turn Stinnes.
    • 11. Episode 11 London Match: Part 1

      05 Dec '88
      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.
    • 12. Episode 12 London Match: Part 2

      12 Dec '88
      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.
    • 13. Episode 13 London Match: Part 3

      19 Dec '88
      Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) has to oversee one last operation to trap the KGB, and to test the sincerity of Stinnes's defection.