Chessgame

Chessgame
Genre	Thriller
Written by	John Brason
Directed by	Ken Grieve Roger Tucker
Starring	Terence Stamp Carmen du Sautoy Michael Culver Robin Sachs
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Granada Television
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	23 November 1983 – 28 December 1983

Chessgame is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1983.

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).

One series of six episodes was made.

• The Alamut Ambush
• Enter Hassan
• The Roman Collection
• Digging up the Future
• Flying Blind
• Cold Wargame

The series was rebroadcast as three TV movies in 1986 called The Alamut Ambush, The Deadly Recruits, and The Cold War Killers.

External links

• Chessgame at the Internet Movie Database
• Addenda to CRIME FICTION IV: Anthony Price, Otto Penzler & others.