The Phoenix Team
tv show
6 total episodes
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1 seasons
First Aired February 10, 1980
Overview
The Phoenix Team was a Canadian drama series that aired on CBC Television in 1980. Starring Don Francks and Elizabeth Shepherd, the show featured eight one-hour adventure dramas centered on former spies drawn back into action by circumstance. Shepherd portrayed Valerie Koester, a British secret service agent who enlists the unofficial help of her ex-lover, David Brook, played by Francks. Once a top Canadian agent during the Cold War, Brook became disillusioned with high-tech espionage and was relegated to a desk job. Both Brook and Koester, known for their nonconformist attitudes, opposed the overly bureaucratic Graydon, played by Brian Linehan, and partnered with the sympathetic General, portrayed by Mavor Moore, head of the Canadian secret service.
Saving Grace - The Last Gambit
Season 1 - Episode 4 - 1h 0m
Air Date
October 14, 1980
Overview
This episode concerns a young black communications officer in Brook's office who believes that he will never attain his dream of becoming a field operative, because of racial prejudice against him. Brook and Val are with Jerome and his wife Grace when they take part in a demonstration against racial injustice. A counter demonstration breaks out in which Grace is critically injured. Brook and Val, in investigating an organization called the Canadian Patriot Society, discover that members of the Ku Klux Klan are in Canada stirring up fear and dissent.