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  • The Sandbaggers Is Your Journey Really Necessary? (Season 1, Episode 3)
  • TV-PG
    TV Episode | 49 min | Thriller

The Sandbaggers

Is Your Journey Really Necessary? (Season 1, Episode 3)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 49 min | Thriller

Burnside faces all kinds of difficulties when Operation Nightingale - which he mounted without permission as a favor for the CIA - fails. Burnside's superiors are questioning his judgment particularly so when they learn that Sandbagger #3 ...See moreBurnside faces all kinds of difficulties when Operation Nightingale - which he mounted without permission as a favor for the CIA - fails. Burnside's superiors are questioning his judgment particularly so when they learn that Sandbagger #3 Alan Denson had to kill Sandbagger #2 to keep him from being captured. When Denson decides to marry, he also wants to quit the job, so Burnside orders Willie Caine to look into the fiancée's background. When the SIS learn that a British diplomat in Paris, the brother of a senior Cabinet Minister, is having a homosexual affair the Foreign Office want them to get proof. Written by garykmcd See less
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Director
Writer
Ian MacKintosh (as Ian Mackintosh)
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Oct 2, 1978

Release date
Oct 2, 1978 (United Kingdom)

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12 cast members
Name Known for
Roy Marsden
Neil Burnside Neil Burnside   See fewer
Ray Lonnen
Willie Caine Willie Caine   See fewer
Alan MacNaughtan
Sir Geoffrey Wellingham Sir Geoffrey Wellingham   See fewer
Elizabeth Bennett
Diane Lawler Diane Lawler   See fewer
Steven Grives
Alan Denson Alan Denson   See fewer
Brenda Cavendish
Sally Graham Sally Graham   See fewer
Andy Bradford
Phil Fyffe (as Andrew Bradford) Phil Fyffe (as Andrew Bradford)   See fewer
David Glyder
Jake Landy Jake Landy   See fewer
Reg Thomason
Club Member (uncredited) Club Member (uncredited)   See fewer
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