Series · 1988
Game, Set, and Match
BERLIN GAME. MEXICO SET. LONDON MATCH.
The series
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
Season 1 · 13 episodes · 1988
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Episode 13 Oct 19881h 0m
Episode 1 Berlin Game: Part 1
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 int…
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Episode 23 Oct 19881h 0m
Episode 2 Berlin Game: Part 2
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.
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Episode 310 Oct 19881h 0m
Episode 3 Berlin Game: Part 3
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.
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Episode 417 Oct 19881h 0m
Episode 4 Berlin Game: Part 4
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.
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Episode 524 Oct 19881h 0m
Episode 5 Berlin Game: Part 5
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.
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Episode 631 Oct 19881h 0m
Episode 6 Mexico Set: Part 1
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.
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Episode 77 Nov 19881h 0m
Episode 7 Mexico Set: Part 2
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.
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Episode 814 Nov 19881h 0m
Episode 8 Mexico Set: Part 3
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.
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Episode 921 Nov 19881h 0m
Episode 9 Mexico Set: Part 4
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) is caught in a deadly spiral of distrust and violence, and his actions lead to a death in custody.
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Episode 1028 Nov 19881h 0m
Episode 10 Mexico Set: Part 5
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) goes to Mexico to try to turn Stinnes.
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Episode 115 Dec 19881h 0m
Episode 11 London Match: Part 1
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.
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Episode 1212 Dec 19881h 0m
Episode 12 London Match: Part 2
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.
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Episode 1319 Dec 19881h 0m
Episode 13 London Match: Part 3
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) has to oversee one last operation to trap the KGB, and to test the sincerity of Stinnes's defection.
Cast
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