One of these days I'll be able to watch a spy thriller at home without reaching for a bottle of whisky but tonight's not the night. The Sandbaggers series 3 with a Jack Daniels Blackberry and Lemonade. Happy Sunday!
November 2, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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50. The Sandbaggers. The Americans’ weird, creepy, fucked up, made-for-twenty-pounds-an-episode grandpa.
October 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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“Say, if they haven’t got the worst bunch of holdup men, yeggs and sandbaggers for umpires I ever saw!” 🤣🤣🤣
October 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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As returns from Slow Horses continue to diminish, can I interest anyone in Spy Trap?
A BBC series from 1972-75, about a counter espionage outfit that goes only by 'The Department', it plays like an even less action-packed version of The Sandbaggers (complementary)
A BBC series from 1972-75, about a counter espionage outfit that goes only by 'The Department', it plays like an even less action-packed version of The Sandbaggers (complementary)
October 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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If you have not heard of The Sandbaggers, I cannot recommend it highly enough. An intense and inside view of the life of spies during the cold war, written by a naval officer who died or disappeared mysteriously and may have been an agent himself~
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October 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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The yearly rewatch of Sandbaggers has begun. This year it is sweetening my first reads of Mick Herron's Slough House novels. I watched the TV series earlier this year. This means that after Pendragon, it will be time for choice selections from my spy RPGs @gobagpod.com
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October 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Re-watched 'The Sandbaggers' "A Proper Function Of Government". An early episode that pretty much sums up what made that show so very, very out-fucking-standing. A series of intelligent, sharp and terse conversations in offices that are more exciting and compelling than most action movies.
October 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I love Sandbaggers for many reasons but perhaps my favourite thing about it is the way parts of Yorkshire stand in for various exotic settings. Harrogate is Vienna. York University is Warsaw. Leeds University is an American city. Ilkley Moor is Cyprus.
Re-watched 'The Sandbaggers' "A Proper Function Of Government". An early episode that pretty much sums up what made that show so very, very out-fucking-standing. A series of intelligent, sharp and terse conversations in offices that are more exciting and compelling than most action movies.
October 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Ralph M Larmann, Sandbaggers, 2003. Acrylic on panel, 48 x 32 inches. Courtesy of the artist #art #painting #flooding #sandbags #sandbaggers #figures #landscape #rainscape #Ralph #Larmann #Evansville #Indiana #workers #orange #poncho #rivercrest #houses #deluge #levee #artsky #climatechange #rainy
October 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Guys! It's Newton Kyme Hall, in Yorkshire!
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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'First Principles', the debut episode of The Sandbaggers, was broadcast on this day in 1978.
September 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Ian MacKintosh sets the scene for The Sandbaggers with this introductory story. TV Times (w/e 22nd September 1978).
September 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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£3 charity shop find for when I am need cheering down.
September 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Antes pensaba que la misión que me había impuesto Dios era difundir las bondades de "Sandbaggers" pero ahora se suma esta nueva serie que me encantaría que se pudiese ver en España. Al no ser así agradezco el favor que nos hace un sitio noble como es Internet Archive.
September 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The Sandbaggers (if Mackintosh could’ve delayed defecting for a year).
If you could get just one more season of any cancelled show, which would you pick?
September 9, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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God bless Yorkshire Television. In the last 3 episodes of The Sandbaggers that I’ve watched, they’ve had the cast iron balls to have Leeds double for Austria, Paris and best of all, Gibraltar…in what looks like February.
September 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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Ralph M Larmann, Sandbaggers, 2003. Acrylic on panel, 48 x 32 inches. Courtesy of the artist #art #painting #flooding #sandbags #sandbaggers #figures #landscape #rainscape #Ralph #Larmann #Evansville #Indiana #workers #orange #poncho #rivercrest #houses #deluge #levee #artsky #Blueskyartshow #rainy
September 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Sandbaggers mention!! 👀
November 7, 2024 at 6:45 AM
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Some of the old British TV series from the 1970s have fantastic storylines and acting (just don't expect the same production values as today).
I Claudius (Roman epic), The Sandbaggers (outstanding cold war spy series), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alec Guinness spy drama)
I Claudius (Roman epic), The Sandbaggers (outstanding cold war spy series), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alec Guinness spy drama)
December 11, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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i don't know anything about Norwegian intelligence capabilities but this pilot for "Sandbaggers" suggests they were just ramping up in the '70s
Sandbaggers is my favorite 1970s British TV spy series cut short after its writer/creator disappeared mysteriously in a plane over Alaska
The Sandbaggers: First Principles https://youtu.be/ww5Ko6Fiq5s via @YouTube
The Sandbaggers: First Principles https://youtu.be/ww5Ko6Fiq5s via @YouTube
November 6, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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Issue with Sandbaggers is can I actually find it streaming again
October 10, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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Finished re-reading @gregrucka.com “A Gentleman’s Game”. While the book ending hits me like the finale episode of Sandbaggers, at least I have some more Q&C to re-read for now 🤣
December 31, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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Planning some Christmas viewing, hoping to get through my Sandbaggers box set having only watched a few episodes before now.
December 19, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Remembering actor Richard Vernon who would have been celebrating his 100th birthday today.
Famous for Yes (Prime) Minister, The Sandbaggers and Nanny.
To many Hitchhiker's fans, he will always be remembered as Slartibartfast.
Vernon passed away in 1997 at the age of 72.
Famous for Yes (Prime) Minister, The Sandbaggers and Nanny.
To many Hitchhiker's fans, he will always be remembered as Slartibartfast.
Vernon passed away in 1997 at the age of 72.
March 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Honestly, honourable mention category here should just be "@dropouttv.bsky.social content".
TV:
-Shogun
-Bosch
-The Sandbaggers
-Most Upsetting Guessing Game in the World
-Go Ahead Brother
Honourable mentions:
-Smiling Friends
-The Penguin
-Game Changer
-Make Some Noise
-Three Body Problem
TV:
-Shogun
-Bosch
-The Sandbaggers
-Most Upsetting Guessing Game in the World
-Go Ahead Brother
Honourable mentions:
-Smiling Friends
-The Penguin
-Game Changer
-Make Some Noise
-Three Body Problem
January 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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