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

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)

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.

References

External links

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