The man who put up the complete series of Warship, has done it again with another classic.
The Sandbaggers.
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdpqz-8kHRuCQoyT8p39XofS6as6cdgaZ
I'd forgotten this series, (one quite surprising & shocking ending to season 2 brought it back to me), but its simply brilliant, all the way through. You need to accept the time its set, pre fall of the Berlin Wall and the Old Soviet Union.
A strange side note.
The Sandbaggers was created by Ian Mackintosh, a Scottish former naval officer turned television writer, who had previously achieved success with the acclaimed BBC television series Warship. He wrote all the episodes of the first two series of The Sandbaggers, but in July 1979, during the shooting of the third series, he and his girlfriend—a British Airways stewardess—were declared lost at sea after their single-engined aircraft went missing over the Pacific Ocean near Alaska, following a radioed call for help. Some of the details surrounding their disappearance have caused speculation about what actually occurred, including their stop at an abandoned United States Air Force base and the fact that the plane happened to crash in the one small area that was not covered by either U.S. or Soviet radar.[2]
Mackintosh disappeared after he had written just four of the scripts for the third series, so other writers were called in to bring the episode count up to seven. The Sandbaggers ends on an unresolved cliffhanger because the producers decided that no one else could write the series as well as Mackintosh had and chose not to continue it in his absence.
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