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Season 2

Bird of Prey Season 2

September. 06,1984
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8.3
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From its video game-inspired opening titles to its pervasive electronic music track, Bird of Prey went to great lengths to demonstrate its credentials as 'a thriller for the electronic age'. These elements, together with a clever and complex plot that combines a breathless fascination with the still-young field of computing with pan-European fraud, international terrorism, rogue intelligence operatives and organised crime, link it firmly to the early 1980s, expressing that era's growing anxieties about the burgeoning 'Eurocracy'.

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Bird of Prey Season 2 Full Episode Guide

Episode 4 - Trapdoor + Spook
First Aired: September. 27,1984

Henry discovers that he is on the hit list of Le Pouvier's hired assassin.

Episode 3 - Ducks In A Row
First Aired: September. 20,1984

Henry Jay continues to be threatened by the sinister Le Pouvier computer-crime syndicate.

Episode 2 - A State Of The Art Way To Die
First Aired: September. 13,1984

Henry Jay and his wife, Anne, go undercover in St.Leonards-on-Sea. His recent promotion means that he has to be vetted and what is uncovered is passed straight to the political head of Henry's department.

Episode 1 - Death + Taxes
First Aired: September. 06,1984

Richard Griffiths again stars as the reluctant hero, Henry Jay, the mild-mannered civil servant.

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