The General (Spyforce Episode)

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“The General”

Spyforce episode

Episode no.

Season 1
Episode 1

Written by

Ron McLean

Directed by

Roger Mirams

Production no.

Paramount Pictures

Original airdate

August 2, 1971 (Nine)

Episode chronology
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This page is about episode one of the Australian wartime espionage drama, Spyforce. For other uses, see: The General.

The General is episode one of the first series of the Australian wartime espionage drama, Spyforce created by Roger Mirams and Ron McLean. The series was about sabotage and covert operations by a secretive Australian intelligence organisation known as the Special Intelligence Unit. The episode builds upon the dislike, and distrust that the two main protagonists have towards each other.

[edit] Plot

Warning! This is a summary of the plot of this episode, and may spoil the outcome.

Colonel Cato, the Commanding Officer of the Special Intelligence Unit, sends Erskine and his partner Gunther Haber to New Ireland to try and kidnap a German Officer who is working there with their Japanese Allies. It is vital the snatch goes according to plan, as Cato believes that the General is in possession of a list that contains the names of all German agents working in Australia. Erskine, who already has a strong dislike for his reluctant partner Haber, starts to distrust him even more when Haber, who is a German national, seemingly defects to the enemy.