The Game (UK TV series)
| The Game | |
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| Genre | Thriller, drama |
| Created by | Toby Whithouse |
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| Composer(s) | Daniel Pemberton |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| Producer(s) | Radford Neville |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | BBC Cymru Wales |
| Distributor | BBC Worldwide |
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| Original release | 5 November – 10 December 2014 |
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The Game is a British Cold War spy thriller television serial that takes place in London in 1972. It was first broadcast on BBC America in 2014. The six-part series was created by Toby Whithouse and written by Whithouse, Sarah Dollard and Debbie O'Malley.
Whithouse confirmed via Twitter in July 2015 that there would not be a second series.
Joe Lambe (Tom Hughes) is a young MI5 operative in 1970s London. The previous year, Joe had fallen in love with Yulia (Zana Marjanović), one of his Russian contacts. He had tried to defect to the Soviet Union to be with her but Joe was arrested and Yulia was shot by a KGB enforcer he had not encountered before. Joe's MI5 superior, codenamed 'Daddy' (Brian Cox), covers for him and insists that the attempted defection was a sanctioned undercover operation gone wrong and that Joe was only acting on the orders given to him—the outcome of the defection had gone awry and was out of Joe's control.
MI5 is contacted by Arkady (Marcel Iureș), who reveals he is a Soviet sleeper agent working undercover in the United Kingdom. He tells them that he has been recruited to take part in 'Operation Glass', a secret plan of game-changing importance, but he wants to defect. He will be used as a go-between to pass messages to other sleeper agents in Britain. Daddy assembles a team to look into Operation Glass, including Joe, the ambitious civil servant Bobby Waterhouse (Paul Ritter), field agent and analyst Sarah Montag (Victoria Hamilton), her husband Alan (Jonathan Aris) who is a bugging expert, and Daddy's secretary Wendy (Chloe Pirrie). Joining them is Special Branch detective Jim Fenchurch (Shaun Dooley). As the team investigates Operation Glass, they remain in the dark as to what it is, or even whether Arkady is a trustworthy informant or a double agent.
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