8.9/1022 votes#1 - Episode 1 Berlin Game: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/1988
Bernard Samson has spent most of his life in Berlin. Following in his late father's footsteps, he worked for British Intelligence during the Cold War period. After losing a member of his East German spy group while trying to cross back into West Berlin, he loses his nerve and has spent the last few years behind a desk in London. The other members of his Intelligence group are Oxford- and Cambridge-bred bureaucrats with no field experience. Bernard is an anachronism, a dinosaur -but they need him. There is a mole working in London Central leaking secrets to the Russians. Bernard is called out of semi-retirement to go back to Berlin and make contact with his old spy group and try to find out who the mole is. But who can be trusted? He calls upon his oldest friend Werner Volkmann for help.
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/109 votes
#2 - Episode 2 Berlin Game: Part 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1988
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) has returned to Berlin with a mission to sniff out a suspected traitor who threatens the security of his Brahms network.
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/109 votes
#3 - Episode 3 Berlin Game: Part 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1988
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) finds double-dealing on both sides of the Berlin Wall, but uncovers the identity of the suspected mole in the Foreign Office.
Director: Patrick Lau
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/109 votes
#4 - Episode 4 Berlin Game: Part 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1988
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) confronts the suspected mole in the Foreign Office. Meanwhile, in Berlin, Volkmann and his wife are playing a curious game of intrigue and deception.
Director: Patrick Lau
Writer: N/A
- 8.9/1010 votes
#5 - Episode 5 Berlin Game: Part 5
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1988
The suspected mole has been killed, and a traitor in London Central itself is implicated. Samson goes to East Berlin to investigate, but the KGB are prepared for his arrival.
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1010 votes
#6 - Episode 6 Mexico Set: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1988
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) is a marked man following the exposure of his wife, Fiona, as a traitor. Meanwhile, a KGB agent in Mexico wants to defect to the west.
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: N/A
- 8.9/108 votes
#7 - Episode 7 Mexico Set: Part 2
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1988
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) tries to prove his own loyalty by master-minding an operation to secure the defection of a KGB officer from Mexico.
Director: Patrick Lau
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/108 votes
#8 - Episode 8 Mexico Set: Part 3
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1988
Samson's father-in-law threatens legal action to secure custody of the children. Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) receives a surprise visitor. Mackenzie is found dead in an MI6 safe house.
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/106 votes
#9 - Episode 9 Mexico Set: Part 4
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1988
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) is caught in a deadly spiral of distrust and violence, and his actions lead to a death in custody.
Director: Patrick Lau
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/106 votes
#10 - Episode 10 Mexico Set: Part 5
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1988
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) goes to Mexico to try to turn Stinnes.
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/105 votes
#11 - Episode 11 London Match: Part 1
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1988
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) attends a lavish Christmas party in Berlin, in the hunt for a traitor. Stinnes offers information about a KGB spy cell operating in Oxford.
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/106 votes
#12 - Episode 12 London Match: Part 2
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1988
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) and Gloria are babysitting Soviet defector Stinnes in London, but developments at London Central lead to a deadly turn of events.
Director: Patrick Lau
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/107 votes
#13 - Episode 13 London Match: Part 3
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1988
Bernard Samson (Ian Holm) has to oversee one last operation to trap the KGB, and to test the sincerity of Stinnes's defection.
Director: Ken Grieve
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Game, Set, and Match Season 1
Every episode of Game, Set, and Match Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Game, Set, and Match Season 1!
Focuses on Bernard Samson (Ian Holm), beginning with his search for the "mole" that threatens the Brahms Network in East Germany. Samson is sent to...
Genre:Drama
Network:ITV1
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Episode 1 Berlin Game: Part 1" is the best rated episode of "Game, Set, and Match" season 1. It scored 8.9/10 based on 22 votes. Directed by Ken Grieve and written by N/A, it aired on 10/3/1988. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Episode 2 Berlin Game: Part 2".