Game, Set, and Match: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Bernard Samson has spent most of his life in Berlin. Following in his late father's footsteps, he worked for British Intelligence during the Cold War period. After losing a member of his East German spy group while trying to cross back into West Berlin, he loses his nerve and has spent the last few years behind a desk in London. The other members of his Intelligence group are Oxford & Cambridge bred bureaucrats with no field experience. Bernard is an anachronism, a dinosaur - but they need him. There is a mole working in London Central leaking secrets to the Russians. Bernard is called out of semi retirement to go back to Berlin and make contact with his old spy group (the Brahms network) and try to find out who the mole is. But who can be trusted? He calls upon his oldest friend Werner Volkmann for help. What follows is what the British do best. Duplicity is the name of the game and there are many plot twists. Not all is as it seems.

Series details

• Title: Game, Set, and Match
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 1988-10-03
• Final broadcast date listed: 1988-12-19
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ITV1
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 36245
• IMDb ID: tt0092360
• TVDB ID: 77579

Cast and credited roles

• Ian Holm — Bernard Samson
• Michael Culver — Dicky Cruyer
• Michael Degen — Werner Volkmann
• Anthony Bate — Bret Renssalaer
• Gail Harrison — Tessa Kozinski
• Frederick Treves — Frank Harrington
• Mel Martin — Fiona Samson
• Jamie Valder — Billy Samson
• Kirsten Valder — Sally Samson
• Amanda Donohoe — Gloria Kent
• Struan Rodger — Morgan
• Gottfried John — Erich Stinnes

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1988-10-03; final listed air date 1988-12-19; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

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