Bird of Prey
TV ShowTitle | Bird of Prey |
User score | 5.5 |
Release date | Apr 22, 1982 |
Release date of last episode | Sep 27, 1984 |
Genre | Drama |
Production country | GB |
Series status | Ended |
Seasons count | 2 (List of episodes) |
Episodes count | 8 |
Run time | 50 min. |
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'.