The Assassination Run

📊 Series Specifications

Network BBC One
Episode Runtime ~ min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 3
Original Language EN

The Assassination Run (1980)

⭐ Not Rated Yet 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 3 Episodes 🏷️ Action & Adventure 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

While attending Oxford University, Mark Fraser is recruited as an agent by Department Six of British Intelligence. In time he becomes one of their top "eliminators." After several years, he resigns in disgust, marries his girlfriend, Jill Marshall, and retires to the Scottish Highlands. While shopping one afternoon, Jill is kidnapped by five German terrorists and brought to Spain. When Mark receives a telephone call from the terrorists, instructing him to assassinate a right-wing German publisher, he is forced to employ his old skills as a hit man to ensure Jill's safety. .

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Episode 1

Death seems to follow Mark as he attempts to stay ahead of his pursuers, and discover why he has been framed for the murder of a British biochemist whose missing papers have created international concern.

E2 Episode 2

"You will fly to Spain, to Malaga at ten in the morning. Miss that plane and your wife will be killed instantly." Mark Fraser is forced to employ all his old skills as a former 'eliminator' to ensure the safety of his wife Jill. Only one thing is certain -- for someone, somewhere, his mission will end in death.

E3 Episode 3

Frustrated by the interference of British Intelligence and the Russian KGB in the search for his Wife, who remains a hostage of the terrorists, Mark is running out of time and being moved towards decision point -- assassination.