The Sandbaggers (1978)🔹A Proper Function of Government (S1E2)💢

♾️ A Proper Function of Government: When the SIS station in Vienna reports the presence of Dr. Sir Donald Hopkins, Burnside is afraid that they may have a defector on their hands. Hopkins is the chief scientific advisor attached to the Cabinet Office and was supposed to be on his annual fishing holiday in Scotland. ♾️ It features Roy Marsden, Richard Vernon, Ray Lonnen, Alan MacNaughtan, Jerome Willis, and Laurence Payne. ♾️ The Sandbaggers is a British television espionage thriller series, which originally aired from 1978 to 1980. It concerns the men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. The Sandbaggers examines the effect of espionage on the personal and professional lives of British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) officers and their American colleagues.