Cold Warrior

1984 · Ended · 1 season · 8 episodes · Drama · United Kingdom

Creator Arden Winch · Channel BBC One · Starring Michael Denison, Lucy Fleming, David Swift

Cold Warrior is a 1984 BBC One television series written by Arden Winch, 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 consists of eight standalone episodes, which sees Percival dealing with various threats to national security.
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Episodes

8 episodes · September 1984 – October 1984
  1. Episode 1: 1. Bright StingSeptember 12, 1984
    Arms dealer Giles de Vere is prompting NATO's latest weapon known as "Bright Star". Captain Percival has got wind that de Vere selling to the Soviets, via Switzerland so has tampered with the missile on a routine check..
  2. Episode 2: 2. Dead WrongSeptember 19, 1984
    Journalist Malcolm Russell gives out addresses of British intelligence operatives in a newspaper article. Ewan Benman's friend is murdered and he wants revenge. Cap. Percival needs to Russell alive for the greater good.
  3. Episode 3: 3. What's Good for General BullmooseSeptember 26, 1984
    Sir Robert Constable dies in a taxi on the way to meet Krotkin, USSR spy. Captain Percival believes he is not what he seems and conspires with CIA officer Colonel Elliott to give the Soviet Union what they believe they are getting.
  4. Episode 4: 4. The Man from DamascusOctober 3, 1984
    Syria terrorist Dr. Mohammed Riffi thinks he is dying from Berners Syndrome and travels to Rome, without bodyguards, to see his daughter. On the train he meets Capt. Percival who uses his religious believes to his own ends.
  5. Episode 5: 5. The ImmigrantsOctober 10, 1984
    Two fake British passports flag up a possible terrorist attack using a bomb. Learning that the pair came via Turkey, Capt. Percival and his team gamble that the attack is meant for a hard line Israeli minister going to Checkers.
  6. Episode 6: 6. The SpratOctober 17, 1984
    Soviet civil servant Yuri Semanov wants to defect to the British as a major source of information. Unsure, Capt. Percival puts together a dossier that would see him shot as a traitor but enough to make a valuable asset in future.
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  1. Episode 7: 7. A Message from TrebizondOctober 24, 1984
    Radio producer Richard Ellison accuses, Armenian born, announcer Jane Minto of secretly passing messages to terrorists in Europe. Percival knows Minto is a double agent working for him and it's Ellison who is a KGB agent.
  2. Episode 8: 8. Hook, Line and SinkerOctober 31, 1984
    Debutante Sophy offers to help SIS after she meets a famous musician who works for the KGB. A plan to offer the Soviets a fake version of the Microfish system, designed by ex-boyfriend Frank Liscombe, backfires when he vanishes.

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Film and series details

EPISODE LENGTH
30 minutes
FIRST AIRED
September 12, 1984
LAST AIRED
October 31, 1984
PRODUCTION COMPANY
BBC

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