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
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Running time	60 minutes
Production company	Granada Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	23 November (1983-11-23) – 28 December 1983 (1983-12-28)

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 Connection"
• "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.

The theme music was composed by Christopher Gunning.

External links

• Chessgame at IMDb
• Addenda to CRIME FICTION IV: Anthony Price, Otto Penzler & others.