Special Tasks: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

After the announcement of the May Day Slogan in 1948, a group of patriotic Democrats in Hong Kong, represented by Professor Tong Jiangnan, responded actively to the call of the Communist Party and prepared to return to the liberated areas. The Kuomintang reactionaries obstructed and destroyed it, and sent Zhang Mu and others to control the professor and his partners. Su Hang was once a student of Professor Tong Jiangnan, received the task from the organization, went to Hong Kong to escort democracy activists back to the liberated areas, and launched a life-and-death contest with the Kuomintang reactionaries in Hong Kong. As soon as Su Hang arrived in Hong Kong, the enemy killed Tu Zhe, the deputy editor of Ta Kung Pao who was responsible for contacting Professor Tong, which caused great difficulties to his work. To escort Professor Tong and others back to the liberated areas as soon as possible, Su Hang started by tracing the murderer who killed Tu Zhe, dug out Zhang Mu's direct contact Dang Xunqi, found the hidden enemy "Bee", stopped Zhang Mu's plan to leave Hong Kong with Professor Tong, and rescued Professor Tong and his daughter Tong Sheng kidnapped by Zhang Mu. On the ship sailing to Yantai, he completely overpowered Zhang Mu who wanted to blow up the ship, and successfully escorted democracy activists safely back to the liberated areas.

Series details

• Title: Special Tasks
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Chinese
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2024-05-25
• Final broadcast date listed: 2024-06-10
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CCTV-8
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Tencent QQ
• Network country: China
• Typical episode runtime: 45 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 77298

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2024-05-25; final listed air date 2024-06-10; episode order: 32.

Source and licence

Adapted from Special Tasks on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.