Cold Warrior (TV series)

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Cold Warrior
Created byArden Winch
Starring
Theme music composer Simon May
Leslie Osborne
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes8
Production
Producer Gerard Glaister
Running time30 minutes
Original release
Network BBC1
Release12 September (1984-09-12) –
31 October 1984 (1984-10-31)
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Cold Warrior is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1984. [1]

Contents

The series was based around the character of Captain Aubrey Percival (Michael Denison), first introduced in the 1981 thriller serial Blood Money . Moving away from the serial format of Blood Money and Skorpion , Cold Warrior was a series of eight stand-alone episodes, which saw Percival dealing with various threats to national security. He was assisted by Jo (Lucy Fleming) and Danny Quirk (Dean Harris) - the latter also reprising his role from Blood Money. [2]

Cast

Episodes

#TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal air date (UK)
1"Bright Sting"Andrew Morgan Murray Smith 12 September 1984 (1984-09-12)
2"Dead Wrong"Andrew MorganMurray Smith19 September 1984 (1984-09-19)
3"What's Good for General Bullmoose" Pennant Roberts John Brason 26 September 1984 (1984-09-26)
4"The Man from Damascus"Andrew MorganMurray Smith3 October 1984 (1984-10-03)
5"The Immigrants"Andrew MorganJohn Brason10 October 1984 (1984-10-10)
6"The Sprat"Pennant RobertsArden Winch17 October 1984 (1984-10-17)
7"A Message from Trebizond"Pennant RobertsDavid Reid24 October 1984 (1984-10-24)
8"Hook, Line and Sinker"Pennant RobertsMurray Smith31 October 1984 (1984-10-31)

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Jeff (2011). The Penguin TV Companion (4th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 199. ISBN   9780241952917.
  2. ↑ Condon & Sangster (2005). TV Heaven. London: Collins. pp. 121–122. ISBN   0007190999.
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