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| Genre | Thriller |
| Written by | Murray Smith John Brason |
| Directed by | William Brayne Ken Grieve Roger Tucker |
| Starring | Terence Stamp Carmen du Sautoy Michael Culver Robin Sachs |
| Theme music composer | Christopher Gunning |
| ComposerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Christopher Gunning Dick Walter |
| Template:Pluralize from text of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original languageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
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| ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Richard Everitt |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production Template:Pluralize from text | Granada Television |
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| Network | ITV |
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Chessgame is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1983.[1]
The theme music was composed by Christopher Gunning.
Based on a series of novels by Anthony Price, the series dealt with the activities of a quartet of counter-intelligence agents: David Audley (Terence Stamp), Faith Steerforth (Carmen du Sautoy), Nick Hannah (Michael Culver) and Hugh Roskill (Robin Sachs).
Episodes
One series of six episodes was made. It adapted, in order, Anthony Price's first three novels: "The Labyrinth Makers" (1970), "The Alamut Ambush" (1971) and "Colonel Butler's Wolf" (1972)
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The series was later rebroadcast in 1986 as three TV movies called The Alamut Ambush, The Deadly Recruits, and The Cold War Killers.
Cast
Notable guest actors included David Haig, Nadim Sawalha, Rosalie Crutchley, Richard Wilson, Gary Whelan, Caroline Bliss, Anthony Calf, Art Malik and Matyelok Gibbs.
Home media
At least one of the three TV movies was released on DVD by CFM Media in 2004: Alamut Ambush (94 min). Ken Grieve is credited as director.
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Surprise move". The Northern Echo. 23 November 1983. Retrieved 16 January 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
