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COLLECTION · Series · 2010

Strike Back

The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Source: TMDB
* 7.4 (399)ActionAdventureDramaUnited Kingdom · United States
Creators
Jed Mercurio · Marigo Kehoe
Countries
United Kingdom · United States · Denmark
Studios
Sky One · Cinemax · Double D Productions · Left Bank Pictures · Ingenious Broadcasting · BSB
Runtime
45 min/ep
Age rating
TV-MA
Release
05/05/2010
Score
7.4 / 10 (399)
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Seasons and episodes
Specials
Specials
6 episodes
Episode 1. On Strike: Making Chris Ryan's Strike Back
16 min

Season 1 extra

Episode 2. Guns 'N' Ammo: Arming Strike Back
10 min

Season 1 extra

Episode 3. Spotlight on Location: Shooting South Africa
3 min

Season 1 extra

Episode 4. Making of Strike Back Project Dawn
24 min

Season 2 extra

Episode 5. Scott vs Igor Fight
11 min

Season 2 extra

Episode 6. Firearms Training
9 min

Season 2 extra

Chris Ryan's Strike Back
Chris Ryan's Strike Back
6 episodes · 2010

John Porter resigns from the SAS following the aftermath of a rescue mission in Iraq on the eve of the American led invasion in 2003, where two fellow soldiers were killed, apparently by a thirteen-year boy Porter had failed to kill, leaving him responsible. Seven years later, Porter is "reactivated" following the kidnap of journalist Katie Dartmouth by…

Episode 1
Episode 1. Episode 1
2010-05-05 · 45 min

Still haunted by the memory of a disastrous Special Forces mission which he led in 2003, John Porter is given an opportunity to redeem himself by returning to Iraq to rescue a kidnapped TV reporter.

Episode 2
Episode 2. Episode 2
2010-05-05 · 45 min

After locating the terrorist safe house Katie is being held in, Porter is also taken prisoner, and Hugh Collinson and a team at Section 20 have to act quickly before it is too late.

Episode 3
Episode 3. Episode 3
2010-05-12 · 45 min

Collinson sends Porter undercover to Zimbabwe on a mission to break a former British soldier who was involved in a political assassination out of a high-security Harare jail.

Episode 4
Episode 4. Episode 4
2010-05-12 · 45 min

Porter and Masuku become the hunted as a bushman tracker leads the relentless Zimbabwean authorities after them, and Layla Thompson becomes increasingly aware of the tension that exists between Porter and Collinson.

Episode 5
Episode 5. Episode 5
2010-05-19 · 45 min

When a hacker interferes with air support causing a British missile to hit American forces, Porter is assigned the mission to find the man responsible, a former guidance engineer who was dismissed from the army. However, Porter is…

Episode 6
Episode 6. Episode 6
2010-05-19 · 45 min

Porter's life is in danger when he finds himself trapped in a rebels' base in Pakistan. When he manages to escape, he learns that Hugh Collinson, the man he blames for the fatal hostage extraction of 2003, has arrived in Afghanistan to…

Project Dawn
Project Dawn
10 episodes · 2011

Porter is captured by a Pakistani terrorist called Latif while investigating a planned operation of Latif, Project Dawn. Sergeant Michael Stonebridge finds disgraced ex-Delta Force operative Damian Scott, who would not be hired by even private military contractors, who previously worked with Porter to track Latif. After Porter is executed, Section 20…

Episode 1
Episode 1. Episode 1
2011-08-12 · 45 min

British sergeant Michael Stonebridge recruits help from Ex-Delta Force operative Damien Scott when an agent named John Porter is kidnapped by a Pakistani terrorist. The two then uncover clues to a possible terrorist attack at a New Delhi…

Episode 2
Episode 2. Episode 2
2011-08-19 · 45 min

An Indian general decides to hold off on the assault on a New Delhi hotel that has been under siege when he learns that Scott and Stoneridge are in the hotel and they have ID'd the weapons scientist known as Mahmood.

Episode 3
Episode 3. Episode 3
2011-08-26 · 45 min

Section 20 tracks Latif to South Africa, when a former IRA terrorist Daniel Connolly, targets a weapons-system designer. Scott switches places with a computer hacker and finds himself being lured into a dangerous honey trap.

Episode 4
Episode 4. Episode 4
2011-09-09 · 45 min

Scott manages to pass Connolly's explosive test and works on bypassing a security code. Bratton contacts Marshall.

Episode 5
Episode 5. Episode 5
2011-09-16 · 45 min

There is trouble looming for Claire. Scott and Stonebridge attempt to locate a global arms dealer.

Episode 6
Episode 6. Episode 6
2011-09-23 · 45 min

Grant travels to Khartoum when Sinclair and Scott are arrested. Clare is offered a choice by Tahir of either death or starting a new life as his partner. Stonebridge blames himself for Kate's death/ Crawford reveals that Latif has…

Episode 7
Episode 7. Episode 7
2011-09-30 · 45 min

An MI6 agent called John Allen ends up takeing Stonebridge and Scott from Vienna on a dangerous mission to Kosovo.

Episode 8
Episode 8. Episode 8
2011-10-07 · 45 min

In Kosovo, Stonebridge, Scott and four hostages find themselves in dire straits after being double-crossed by KFOR soldiers and the drug lord Hasani.

Episode 9
Episode 9. Episode 9
2011-10-14 · 45 min

Scott and Stonebridge head to Chechnya to track down Latif and a stockpile of chemical weapons.

Episode 10
Episode 10. Episode 10
2011-10-21 · 45 min

In the season finale, Stonebridge and Scott are in a race against time to find a pair of suicide bombers targeting Budapest.

Vengeance
Vengeance
10 episodes · 2012

Former military intelligence operative, Major Rachel Dalton takes charge of Section 20. They work throughout Africa to gain their hands on four nuclear triggers which are in the wrong hands after a mission in Somalia. The triggers have originally been sold to Conrad Knox, an English billionaire and philanthropist based in South Africa, who runs the Knox…

Episode 1
Episode 1. Episode 1
2012-08-17 · 45 min

Damian Scott is sent to Mogadishu, Somalia to rescue British diplomats after they are kidnapped by warlord Huseyin Waabri. Meanwhile Michael Stonebridge adapts to his new career outside Section 20.

Episode 2
Episode 2. Episode 2
2012-08-17 · 45 min

Scott learns that one of the hostages is a high-ranking military intelligence operative and that Waabri is planning to sell nuclear devices in South Africa.

Episode 3
Episode 3. Episode 3
2012-08-24 · 45 min

Scott and Stonebridge track down a radical Islamic cleric in order to recover the nuclear devices, but are sidetracked by a CIA air strike and hostile locals.

Episode 4
Episode 4. Episode 4
2012-08-31 · 45 min

Scott and Stonebridge prepare for an attack by Al Qaeda while holed up in an Algerian farmhouse with the nomad leader and the wounded courier. Meanwhile, back at headquarters, Dalton is called on the carpet for her relationship with the…

Episode 5
Episode 5. Episode 5
2012-09-07 · 45 min

The trail of the missing nuclear triggers leads to Cape Town, South Africa, where kidnappers abduct the children of an expatriate munitions expert to force him to cooperate.

Episode 6
Episode 6. Episode 6
2012-09-14 · 45 min

Stonebridge seeks revenge on Craig Hanson after he turns up in Cape Town, South Africa. Meanwhile, Scott reconnects with a Mossad agent who's been following their case, but with a different set of orders; Knox hustles Evans to a secret…

Episode 7
Episode 7. Episode 7
2012-09-21 · 45 min

Knox extricates a political leader from a Zimbabwe prison, and the unit tries to catch up with the escapee by tracking his activist daughter.

Episode 8
Episode 8. Episode 8
2012-09-28 · 45 min

Unrest spreads after the assassination attempt on political leader Lutulu, while Stonebridge questions the shooter in an isolated police station and looks for a safe way out.

Episode 9
Episode 9. Episode 9
2012-10-05 · 45 min

Knox plans on unloading nuclear bombs into politically unstable African nations, while Matlock reveals why he joined Knox.

Episode 10
Episode 10. Episode 10
2012-10-12 · 45 min

In order to stop Knox, Scott comes to Bryant for assistance. Meanwhile Stonebridge has trouble focusing on the mission as he is bent on revenge. Section 20 get assistance from South African police to stop Knox's plot.

Shadow Warfare
Shadow Warfare
10 episodes · 2013

Scott and Stonebridge are recalled from holiday in California to capture Leo Kamali, a high ranking member of a terrorist cell led by al-Zuhari, an elusive terrorist. After capturing him in Colombia it is revealed that Kamali is working deep cover with the CIA to stop al-Zuhari. As Kamali is pressured to work with Section 20, Dalton is suspended by Colonel…

Episode 1
Episode 1. Episode 1
2013-08-09 · 45 min

Enjoying a long-deserved vacation, Scott and Stonebridge are recalled after a fellow Section 20 member dies while pursuing the elusive terrorist al-Zuhari in Beirut. A new lead sends them into the remote jungles of Colombia in pursuit of…

Episode 2
Episode 2. Episode 2
2013-08-16 · 45 min

Out of options and hunted by the resourceful cartel, Section 20 goes for a longshot and attempts an assault in downtown Bogota, hoping to obtain intel on one of al-Zuhari’s key people. Meanwhile, Dalton looks for the source that exposed…

Episode 3
Episode 3. Episode 3
2013-08-23 · 45 min

Although they are uncertain of others’ loyalties, the team must work with an asset in Beirut to get a lead on James Leatherby, a dangerous and unpredictable operative with ties to al-Zuhari.

Episode 4
Episode 4. Episode 4
2013-09-06 · 45 min

Section 20 attempts a risky rescue for a potential new ally. Now veering close to the edge, but determined to find the truth, Dalton goes AWOL with a detainee.

Episode 5
Episode 5. Episode 5
2013-09-13 · 45 min

While recovering from a shocking turn of events, Section 20 faces a different threat: a new enemy joining forces with an old one. Locke draws Kamali in closer to the team. Scott looks for an old friend, while Stonebridge gets closer to a…

Episode 6
Episode 6. Episode 6
2013-09-20 · 45 min

Section 20 is torn between devoting their resources to the mission or saving one of their own. Stonebridge's health continues to affect him in the field. Al-Zuhari's network moves forward quickly, striking close. Kamali explains why yet…

Episode 7
Episode 7. Episode 7
2013-09-27 · 45 min

The team tracks stolen property to Russia, where Scott and Stonebridge continue their side careers as "outlaws." As Stonebridge's health continues to deteriorate, they discover new mysteries about a piece of Al-Zuhari's plan. Kamali…

Episode 8
Episode 8. Episode 8
2013-10-04 · 45 min

Scott looks for an escape from Black Bear Prison, while Locke becomes suspicious of Kamali. The team races to locate Stonebridge, whose condition grows more dire when he encounters Al-Zuhari's plan firsthand. Continuing his vendetta,…

Episode 9
Episode 9. Episode 9
2013-10-11 · 45 min

Scott and Stonebridge try to keep their promise to protect Ester; Richmond and Martinez follow an Al-Zuhari associate; the team sets out to stop an infiltrator before he reaches a populated area.

Episode 10
Episode 10. Episode 10
2013-10-18 · 45 min

Scott and Stonebridge face a new pivotal player in Al-Zuhari's plan, and with an imminent attack looming, the team resorts to questionable measures, sparking conflict within the unit.

Legacy
Legacy
10 episodes · 2015

From the tropical beaches of Thailand to the towering peaks of the Swiss Alps, Strike Back: Legacy thrusts Section 20 onto a mission the scale of which has never been seen before as this season Scott & Stonebridge go up against the state sanctioned criminal wing of the North Korean regime, known as Office 39. Coordinated by a beautiful and devoted North…

Episode 1
Episode 1. Episode 1
2015-06-03 · 45 min

The daughter of Thailand's British ambassador is kidnapped, so Stonebridge, Scott and the rest of the team sign up for another do-or-die trying adventure.

Episode 2
Episode 2. Episode 2
2015-06-10 · 45 min

Section 20 try to track down the real culprits behind the embassy attack, starting with getting information from gangster Ray McQueen.

Episode 3
Episode 3. Episode 3
2015-06-17 · 45 min

Locke works out that his long-time friend is working with the dangerous Yakuza and Office 39. Scott needs protect his son after they find themselves enemy fire.

Episode 4
Episode 4. Episode 4
2015-06-24 · 45 min

Scott has a serious talk with his son whilst the rest of Section 20 form an uneasy alliance with a couple of CIA mercenaries as they go after Shiro and Mei Foster.

Episode 5
Episode 5. Episode 5
2015-07-01 · 45 min

Scott and Stonebridge make a major mistake and fall into the clutches of North Korean agent Li-Na, leaving Locke having to defy orders to get them out.

Episode 6
Episode 6. Episode 6
2015-07-08 · 45 min

Scott and Stonebridge make a major mistake and fall into the clutches of North Korean agent Li-Na, leaving Locke having to defy orders to get them out.

Episode 7
Episode 7. Episode 7
2015-07-15 · 45 min

The battle with Li-Na is now in Europe, as Section 20 look for a way to get back on her trail. Locke ends up getting an unexpected chance to confront his nemesis.

Episode 8
Episode 8. Episode 8
2015-07-22 · 45 min

The team find out that Li-Na is planning to mount a nuclear attack in Europe. Locke puts himself in the firing line after he neglects the mission in order to avenge his son's murder.

Episode 9
Episode 9. Episode 9
2015-07-29 · 45 min

Locke takes Section 20 off the radar, as they defy Whitehall to travel to Geneva where he is convinced that Li-Na and Kwon are preparing to attack the United Nations HQ.

Episode 10
Episode 10. Episode 10
2015-07-29 · 45 min

Scott and Stonebridge are stranded in the Alps with the mercenaries in pursuit. Scott knows that the CIA hide weapons caches across Europe, so they find a telephone at the farm of a retired Austrian soldier Oscar (Wolf Kahler) to call…

Retribution
Retribution
10 episodes · 2017

Tasked with covert military intelligence and high-risk operations, the resurrected unit, known as Section 20, embarks on a lethal manhunt that will uncover a vast web of interconnected criminal activity. As the team journey across the Middle East and Europe, they uncover a deadly conspiracy which threatens to overwhelm them all and change the face of…

Episode 1
Episode 1. Episode 1
2017-10-31 · 45 min

A dangerous terrorist is on the loose and it's up to Section 20 to find him.

Episode 2
Episode 2. Episode 2
2017-11-07 · 45 min

Section 20 start to close in on terrorist Omair Idrisi and his wife Jane Lowry, but the team is forced to extract devious arms dealer Morgan Ives from Libya.

Episode 3
Episode 3. Episode 3
2017-11-14 · 45 min

As Jane Lowry surfaces in Budapest, Mac and Wyatt are forced to go undercover to infiltrate a dangerous group of white supremacists that has something she needs.

Episode 4
Episode 4. Episode 4
2017-11-21 · 45 min

Things aren't looking good for Mac. He's blown his cover and is now facing certain death. Donovan digs into Zarin's past... and she doesn't like what she learns.

Episode 5
Episode 5. Episode 5
2017-11-28 · 45 min

Section 20 must stop Lowry and Dr Markov from making and unleashing a deadly chemical weapon. In desperate need of intel, Novin infiltrates a drug lord's home.

Episode 6
Episode 6. Episode 6
2018-01-31 · 45 min

Locked, loaded and set to resume their high-stakes mission, Section 20 are back. And they've got a big problem on their hands.

Episode 7
Episode 7. Episode 7
2018-02-07 · 45 min

It's Section 20 vs Jane Lowry in a race to get to Omair Idrisi. It's a mission that hurls comms officer Jensen into extreme danger. Contains sexual scenes.

Episode 8
Episode 8. Episode 8
2018-02-14 · 45 min

Watch out for a massive twist as Jensen digs into Project Tenebrae. Things don't go to plan for Mac and Wyatt as they storm a black site in search of Idrisi.

Episode 9
Episode 9. Episode 9
2018-02-21 · 45 min

The team run into trouble as they race to get Idrisi back across Europe. The surprises keep coming as they learn the truth about Jensen and Project Tenebrae.

Episode 10
Episode 10. Episode 10
2018-02-28 · 45 min

Section 20 are desperate to clear their names. And to do so, they hatch a big and wreckless plan.

Revolution
Revolution
10 episodes · 2019

When a Russian bomber crashes in the South China Sea, the covert special-ops soldiers of Section 20— Thomas “Mac” McAllister, Samuel Wyatt and Gracie Novin — are sent to investigate. There, they cross paths with Katrina Zarkova, a rogue Russian operative with questionable loyalties. Under orders of the new commanding officer, Col. Alexander Coltrane,…

Episode 1
Episode 1. Episode 1
2019-01-25 · 45 min

Reuniting for what they think is a routine "cleanup" exercise in Malaysia, Gracie Novin, Samuel Wyatt and Thomas "Mac" McAllister learn that a British operative in possession of intel about a downed Russian plane has been killed in Kuala…

Episode 2
Episode 2. Episode 2
2019-02-01 · 45 min

Section 20 forges an uneasy alliance with Zarkova in hopes of tracking down a stolen nuclear warhead in Kuala Lumpur; the group grows frustrated when Police Inspector Amy Leong pulls them off the job after a false alarm.

Episode 3
Episode 3. Episode 3
2019-02-08 · 45 min

Section 20's search for the missing nuclear warhead leads them to India, where three scientists have been kidnapped by a militant; the team gains valuable intel on Anjali Vartak, a rich Hindu with a personal vendetta against Muslims.

Episode 4
Episode 4. Episode 4
2019-02-15 · 45 min

As Wyatt is tortured by Vartak's henchmen, Mac presses her corrupt lawyer to hand over an encrypted hard drive that might hold clues to the whereabouts of a pair of "nuclear suitcases."

Episode 5
Episode 5. Episode 5
2019-02-22 · 45 min

Following a high-speed jungle ambush in Myanmar, the suitcase nukes end up in the hands of a brutal Rwandan drug lord with a jealous streak; Colonel Beshnov, the Russian Alpha Group leader, surprises Pavel with a revelation about Zarkova.

Episode 6
Episode 6. Episode 6
2019-03-01 · 45 min

Novin and Zarkova find themselves at the mercy of corrupt police, while Mac and Wyatt take temporary refuge in a local village; Coltrane finally learns the location of the suitcase nukes, but the revelation comes at a high price.

Episode 7
Episode 7. Episode 7
2019-03-08 · 45 min

As Wyatt convalesces, Coltrane, Mac and Novin embark on a covert, 24-hour mission inside Russia to extract an FSB analyst with potentially vital information. Katrina questions Pavel's true identity, but chooses to stand by her commanding…

Revolution: Episode 8
Episode 8. Revolution: Episode 8
2019-03-15 · 45 min

Coltrane defends his decision to go rogue with S20. After tailing Hassan and the nuclear suitcase to a deserted shopping mall in Jakarta, Wyatt and Novin face down threats from Komodo soldiers and, later, Colonel Aldo and his insurgents.

Episode 9
Episode 9. Episode 9
2019-03-22 · 45 min

In pursuit of Pavel, Section 20 clashes with two other Russian renegades, Natasha Petrenko and Artem Orlov, as they attempt to purchase sophisticated software designed to short-circuit a ghost satellite containing precious cargo.

Revolution: Episode 10
Episode 10. Revolution: Episode 10
2019-03-29 · 45 min

Section 20 faces an ultimate dilemma as it battles Pavel and his team of Russian turncoats for keys to Soviet-era missiles thought to have been destroyed years earlier.

Vendetta
Vendetta
10 episodes · 2020

The members of Section 20 are thrown back into combat when a seemingly-straightforward mission in Kosovo to rescue a British scientist uncovers a conspiracy.

Episode 1
Episode 1. Episode 1
2020-02-14 · 45 min

Section 20 are thrown back into combat when a rescue mission unleashes a conspiracy. Series eight of the action-chocked Sky original.

Episode 2
Episode 2. Episode 2
2020-02-21 · 45 min

A double cross turns an already dangerous mission deadly as Section 20 board an enemy-packed train to stop the bioweapon's sale.

Episode 3
Episode 3. Episode 3
2020-02-28 · 45 min

The team run into an old ally as they're thrown headlong into a dangerous race to stop the cyberweapon falling into Jihadist hands.

Episode 4
Episode 4. Episode 4
2020-03-06 · 45 min

Novin is in danger, but saving their soldier isn't Section 20's only mission. The enemy is closing in on the cyberweapon. Fast.

Episode 5
Episode 5. Episode 5
2020-03-13 · 45 min

The team race to stop Zayef from terrorist attack that could kill thousands. For Mac, the mission has never been more personal.

Episode 6
Episode 6. Episode 6
2020-03-20 · 45 min

Mac's life outside of the army might seem happy, but the emotional strain of what happened in Munich starts to take a heavy toll.

Episode 7
Episode 7. Episode 7
2020-03-27 · 45 min

Section 20 are sent on a military mission to Bosnia to grab a jihadi financier who could lead them to Zayef Hajdari.

Episode 8
Episode 8. Episode 8
2020-04-03 · 45 min

Section 20 successfully destroys the Albanian Mafia's weapons stash, but can they get the truth out of Zayef before it's too late?

Episode 9
Episode 9. Episode 9
2020-04-10 · 45 min

CIA agent Carolyn Fortier convinces Section 20 to bring in their soldier alive, but the mission goes wrong when Russian forces arrive.

Episode 10
Episode 10. Episode 10
2020-04-17 · 45 min

It's never been more personal. Section 20 embark on their final-ever mission as they fight to stop Arianna Demachi's plans in Europe.

Cast by season
Richard Armitage
Richard Armitage
John Porter
Orla Brady
Orla Brady
Katie Dartmouth
Colin Salmon
Colin Salmon
James Middleton
Andrew Lincoln
Andrew Lincoln
Hugh Collinson
Jodhi May
Jodhi May
Layla Thompson
Shelley Conn
Shelley Conn
Danni Prendiville
Nicola Stephenson
Nicola Stephenson
Diane Porter
Jimi Mistry
Jimi Mistry
Maj. Jamal Ashkani / Latif
Jimi Mistry
Jimi Mistry
Latif
Amanda Mealing
Amanda Mealing
Col. Eleanor Grant
Sullivan Stapleton
Sullivan Stapleton
Sgt. Damien Scott
Philip Winchester
Philip Winchester
Sgt. Michael Stonebridge
Michelle Lukes
Michelle Lukes
Sgt. Julia Richmond
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