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  1. michaellevenson

    Review BLAKE'S 7: REDEMPTION - Episode 14

    Problem with this story is that it didn't really fit with what we've been told about the probable original Liberator crew. Aliens with elaborate teeth, or at least beings who designed a conceptually alien ship. If the system had designed it, it wouldn't have comfy chair and organic feel design...
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    Review S03E07-THE FINAL EPISODE -Opposite Numbers ( upgraded)

    Cast List ( recurring characters only) Roy Marsden......BURNSIDE Ray Lonnen.......CAINE Jerome Willis.....PEELE Bob Sherman.......ROSS Alan MacNaughtan....WELLINGHAM Richard Vernon....C (series 1+2) Michael Cashman....WALLACE (series2+3) Elizabeth Bennett...DIANE (secretary series 1+2) Dennis...
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    Review S03E07-THE FINAL EPISODE -Opposite Numbers ( upgraded)

    The next day, Wellingham " I hear Filatov was captured last night" Burnside. " yes he was hiding out on his own" W " yes that's what I choose to believe too, I also believe Peele isn't the fool we've always taken him to be. You're lucky Neil, luckier than you deserve to be. I want you out of...
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    Review S03E07-THE FINAL EPISODE -Opposite Numbers ( upgraded)

    Len Sheppard, young ambitious, newly married, the SIS man based in Malta has been doing the legwork for the sandbaggers, helping out, mainly sitting with Filatov at the villa. He comes home , sitting waiting for him is Peele. Len " hello sir" Peele " Mary is upstairs reading bedtime stories to...
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    Review S03E07-THE FINAL EPISODE -Opposite Numbers ( upgraded)

    But Burnside of couse does take Filatov,and hides him in a villa in Rabat just outside Valetta, he then casually strolls into the hotel where the Russian delegation are staying to see Nikolai Sarkisian of the KGB. B " we've got Filatov, and can prove he's been working for us for years, so...
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    Review S03E07-THE FINAL EPISODE -Opposite Numbers ( upgraded)

    In Malta a vital conference is taking place. S.A.L.T. Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. All the super powers are there. Both sandbaggers have bodyguard duties, escorting Peele and Wellingham to and from the conference centre in their government DaimlerChrysler cars. It's actually quite boring...
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    Review The Sandbaggers-S03E06-Who Needs Enemies - a mini transcription

    Willie is back and greets Marianne in her office. W " where's the boss?" M " in hospital, he was bopped on the head last night, mugged" W " I wonder why Dalgety took my call" M " that's the other news, Dalgety is taking over, the drums have been beating all night" W " they're getting rid of...
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    Review The Sandbaggers-S03E06-Who Needs Enemies - a mini transcription

    Burnside with Peele, P " have you considered a replacement for Underwood yet?" B " not yet no" P " we're going to recommend you get the job Neil. Congratulations on your promotion Neil!" Burnside is shocked, almost laughing. Later sitting grim faced in C' office. C " I understand you are not...
  9. michaellevenson

    Review The Sandbaggers-S03E06-Who Needs Enemies - a mini transcription

    One of my favourite episodes, I've beefed this thread up a bit, not a complete transcription, but plenty of dialogue included here. In Madrid the wife of Cliff Underwood, SIS man returns to their villa. She enters the kitchen and sees a note on the worktop, it reads, " you know why." Alarmed...
  10. michaellevenson

    Review S03E05- Sometimes We Play Dirty Too

    Willie goes to the embassy to collect the envelope Burnside has sent him. An envelope of touched up photos. Linda has let slip that ACI own a flat that Banks had used as a love nest with Marouska. Willie waits until she has left, then he enters, the door unlocked. Banks is there alive and well...
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    Review S03E05- Sometimes We Play Dirty Too

    Mrs Banks is in England, she came back two days before the car crash to put the couples children in a new boarding school. Burnside has checking done on Mrs Banks and puzzled at why she's booked to go back to Prague on a flight when her husband 's body is in England. He calls at the family home...
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    Review S03E05- Sometimes We Play Dirty Too

    Robert Banks is a successful British business man, rich , self made, who runs ACI, a company involved in high tech equipment, selling mostly to Eastern Europe. In fact very few westerners had more access to sensitive areas behind the iron curtain than him. Not that the communists particularly...
  13. michaellevenson

    Review S03E04- My Name Is Anna Wiseman

    Back in his office. Willie " did you by any chance tell Tyler of her plans to be a sleeper?" B " yes, so what?" W " at a time when he was handing over stuff to the Russians as fast as he could. So her cover is blown already" B " she knows that, she wants a trial,imprisonment, and she even wants...
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    Review S03E04- My Name Is Anna Wiseman

    The next morning it's bad news, Peele " sorry Neil I've decided to cancel the operation. I've discussed it with the intelligence director and he agrees with me, she is 53, by the time she ends up anywhere we can use her she'll be too old. Also I'm not prepared to sanction the theft of a NATO...
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    Review S03E04- My Name Is Anna Wiseman

    Burnside in a Brussels park meets English woman Anna Wiseman. B "confirmed?" AW " confirmed" B " how long?" AW " Doctor said under a year" B " I'm sorry. Still want to go through with it?" AW " yes , if my life is to have any meaning I must" B " I'll be in touch" Back in HQ London, C is away at...
  16. michaellevenson

    Review S03E03-Unusual Approach

    In Rhodes Burnside has been approached by a female saying she's from Greek intelligence, Christina Stratos, apparently on holiday. Burnside amused that the KGB are putting this girl up against him. Two can play at that game. He claims he is happily married, with two kids, ideal blackmail...
  17. michaellevenson

    Review S03E03-Unusual Approach

    Ross has provided the false passport and clothes for Cheever and Mike Wallace is sent to Russia, but Willie comes up with a brainwave, W " why not send you in from the north?" Mike " the north? there's a thousand miles of Russia to the north" W " so nothing to a plane, you fly down to Kraznadow...
  18. michaellevenson

    Review S03E03-Unusual Approach

    Peele and Wellingham are in Rhodes at a conference. C believes Burnside could do with a holiday and sends him to Rhodes too as a bodyguard. This infuriates Neil who believes C hates his guts and would put him up against a wall and cheerfully drive a bus at it. But he has to go. Geoff Ross sees...
  19. michaellevenson

    Review S03E02- To Hell With Justice ( THREAD MOVED)

    This episode thread has been greatly expanded and can be found in the TV reviews section. See below https://www.imdforums.com/threads/the-sandbaggers-s03e02-to-hell-with-justice.7374/
  20. michaellevenson

    Review Shriekback

    OMG ! New album out. Watching them they look like aging m.o.r. rockers, but that's further from the truth that it's possible to be.
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