Strike Back / Episode List

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This episode list contains all episodes of the British war series Strike Back , sorted by the British or US first broadcast . Between 2010 and 2018, 66 episodes were created in seven seasons, each around 44 minutes in length.

Overview

Season	Number of episodes	First broadcast UK / US		German-language first broadcast
		Season premiere	Season finale	Season premiere	Season finale
1	6th	May 5, 2010 (UK)	May 19, 2010 (UK)	January 26, 2011	January 29, 2011
2	10	August 12, 2011 (US)	October 21, 2011 (US)	December 9, 2011	February 10, 2012
3	10	August 17, 2012 (US)	October 12, 2012 (US)	December 14, 2012	February 8, 2013
4th	10	August 9, 2013 (US)	October 18, 2013 (US)	December 13, 2013	February 7, 2014
5	10	June 3, 2015 (UK)	July 29, 2015 (UK)	December 7, 2015	February 8, 2016
6th	10	October 31, 2017 (UK)	February 28, 2018 (UK)	October 8, 2018	3rd December 2018
7th	10	January 25, 2019 (US)	March 29, 2019 (US)

Season 1: Chris Ryan's Strike Back

The first broadcast of the first season was from 5 to 19 May 2010 on the British television channel Sky1 . The German-language first broadcast was broadcast by RTL II from January 26 to 29, 2011 in double episodes.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in UK	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
1	1	Strike Back (1)	Episode 1	May 5, 2010	Jan. 26, 2011	Daniel Percival	Jed Mercurio
On March 18, 2003, British soldiers on a ship of the British Navy prepare for their mission to rescue Kenneth Bratton, the division manager of a British defense company , who was kidnapped two weeks ago in Baghdad . Your mission is successful insofar as the kidnapped man can be freed and flown out by helicopter. However, during the release of the hostage, the commanding officer John Porter and another soldier were injured, while S. Sgt. M. Reilly and Sgt. KT Finn were fatally wounded in the stairwell of the apartment building. Since Porter had previously defused the explosive vest of the young Iraqi named As'ad at the point where the two killed soldiers were found, but did not kill him, it is assumed that As'ad shot the British soldiers. As a result, Porter is advised on his return to England to be assigned a job in the office and to retire from active duty. Porter then quits his duty and finds a new job at MI6 as a security guard. Seven years later, Porter accidentally learns at MI6 that British journalist Katie Dartmouth was kidnapped in Iraq near Basra by a group that calls itself "The Sword of Islam". Her father was once an influential minister who advocated the British army's involvement in the Iraq war . Major Hugh Collinson, a former Porter team member, now heads the MI6 department responsible for the rescue of the kidnapped journalist. Porter asks him that he recognized As'ad as one of the alleged kidnappers in the photo on the journalist's cell phone and asks him to be sent to Iraq to rescue the journalist and the mistake he made seven years earlier to make amends. Collinson agrees and sends him into action as a further option alongside the official team. The British armed forces team of four is ambushed by an explosives trap.
2	2	Strike Back (2)	Episode 2	May 5, 2010	Jan. 26, 2011	Daniel Percival	Jed Mercurio
John Porter again enters the apartment building that had been the target of the operation seven years earlier. There he brings one of the hostage takers into his power. Porter forces the overwhelmed hostage taker to take him to the journalist's whereabouts. Meanwhile, the hostage-takers sever the journalist's left hand in a video message transmitted over the Internet because her father offered a sum of money to release his daughter without a ransom demand. Instead of asking for a ransom, the hostage-takers are demanding the release of an imprisoned fellow combatant from the British maximum security prison in Belmarsh . After being captured by the hostage-takers himself, Porter succeeds in freeing the journalist. When meeting As'ad it turns out that he did not kill the soldiers, but had to watch as the current chief of operations, Collinson, did it himself. Collinson radioed the crew of the helicopter that was taking Porter and the journalist out of the country to accept As'ad. Porter then has to leave him on the ground, where he is pursued by his brothers in arms. Before that, As'ad revealed his secret about the fatal shots at the British soldiers to journalist Katie.
3	3	Strike Back - The Mission (1)	Episode 3	May 12, 2010	Jan. 28, 2011	Daniel Percival	Jed Mercurio & Alan Whiting
In Harare , the capital of Zimbabwe , Felix Masuku, a former Special Air Service soldier, shoots a double of the President of Zimbabwe, believing he has President Robert Mugabe himself in front of the muzzle of his sniper rifle. His two co-conspirators die in the hail of bullets from the approaching soldiers. Masuku is captured and detained in a maximum security prison. Since Masuku grew up with an aunt in London and was a former soldier in the British armed forces, rumors spread in the media that the attack was planned by the British government. Therefore, John Porter is sent by Hugh Collinson to Zimbabwe to free Masuku from prison and then to kill him so that he cannot incriminate the British government with his testimony in the three months' trial. For this purpose, Porter is smuggled into Zimbabwe as an illegally operating blood diamond dealer under the name John Dean . When they arrived in Harare, the Zimbabwean police received a tip from the South African government on behalf of England to arrest Porter. This is picked up by the police and taken to the same prison as Masuku. Layla Thompson, one of Porter's colleagues who also works for MI6 , poses in prison as an envoy for the South African government demanding that Porter be extradited to South Africa . In conversation with Porter, she gives him the crucial information on how to escape with Masuku. At the same time she informs him that Masuku's legal proceedings have been accelerated by two months and that Masuku's transfer from prison is imminent. Meanwhile, Colonel Tshuma receives a tip from a British contact who works for the South African government that Layla Thompson is operating under a false identity. Nevertheless, Porter and Masuku manage to break out of the maximum security prison. Outside the city, the two fugitives leave their getaway car. Porter recalls the content of his mission, which is to kill Masuku. In the face of death, Masuku announced that he had been recruited by British intelligence to kill President Robert Mugabe, but was linked. Porter believes him and sets off with Masuku to the South African border so that he is given the opportunity to make a statement.
4th	4th	Strike Back - The Mission (2)	Episode 4	May 12, 2010	Jan. 28, 2011	Daniel Percival	Jed Mercurio & Alan Whiting
Colonel Tshuma and his men and a track-reading Bushman hunt porters and masuku. Taken under fire by the soldiers, the two refugees at a ravine can only save themselves by jumping into a river that brings them to a mission station. There they witness how the school class of the missionary Leyla, which consists mainly of AIDS orphans , is harassed by armed gangsters, so-called tsotsis. One of the gangsters dragged one of the girls into a hut, whereupon Masuku rushed to her aid to prevent the impending rape . Porter reluctantly gives him fire protection, the two kill the three fighters, but Masuku is shot. This makes it clear to Porter that he will not continue his escape to South Africa without the school class. Leyla points out to the two men that two of the children are held hostage by the tsotsis in the village a few kilometers away. Porter then sets out to free the two children, while Masuku remains behind due to his injury in the mission station and takes care of the school class. During the rescue operation, Porter is also shot, but can keep the two children and bring them back to the mission station. There Porter and Masuku hide from the approaching soldiers of Colonel Tshuma. Meanwhile, Hugh Collinson succeeds in unmasking the mole within his own ranks, who sold the information required for the Masuku attack for a total of 6 million US dollars from the British embassy in South Africa . When Collinson then decides to travel to South Africa to confront the public servant with his allegations of treason, the latter commits suicide . From the documents that Collinson finds in the traitor's house, he recognizes the explosiveness of the situation and asks the South African military for support. This rushes to the aid of Porter and Masuku and drives the attacking soldiers to flight. During the exchange of fire, Masuku manages to escape, while Tshuma, who shoots Collinson, is killed by Porter. While still in Africa , Porter found out via satellite telephone connection from his daughter that his wife, who was now separated from him and had been operated on for a tumor, died as part of the medical procedure.
5	5	Strike Back - Day of Vengeance (1)	Episode 5	May 19, 2010	Jan. 29, 2011	Edward Hall	Robert Murphy
The software engineer for remote missile Gerald Baxter was once in the service of the British forces, but was after the accidental bombing of a village near Samara declared unfit for active service after being blamed for the failure of the weapons used and subsequently under a post-traumatic stress disorder suffered. The CIA, on the other hand, recruited him despite knowledge of his mental state and sent him to Afghanistan . When Baxter, who has since taken the name Yusuf Mohammed, succeeds in reprogramming an air-to- surface missile fired by a British fighter in the Afghan province of Helmand , so that it misses its target by 600 m and is in a force of 22 US American Marines , the American military attaché Frank Arlington approaches MI6 in London . He would like the British government to officially acknowledge responsibility for the deaths of the US soldiers, publicly apologize to the families and pay them generously. Hugh Collinson, Head of Department, does not agree with this suggestion. However, he reveals to Arlington that he has meanwhile sent John Porter to Afghanistan, who pretends to be an arms dealer , in order to locate Baxter and bring him back to England. Thereupon the US-American armed forces also go in search of Porter and Baxter and take them both into custody. Although Porter reveals his true identity as a British soldier, the Marines are ordered to kill both men. Porter and Baxter manage to escape from American captivity. Baxter then confesses that he used to work for the CIA but has since joined Zahir Sharq, the increasingly influential Taliban rebel leader , after discovering that the US government is trying to kill him. Baxter responds to Porter's request to bring him to Sharq in Pakistan . When the two British arrive at Sharq's fortress, however, he reveals Porter's true identity to the rebel leader, whereupon Porter is arrested by Sharq's followers. However, after Baxter is able to record a video call between Sharq and Arlington, in which Arlington promises to provide the Afghan with weapons and information if Sharq is ready to kill Porter and Baxter, he helps Porter to overpower the Afghan rebels and out to flee the fortress.
6th	6th	Strike Back - Day of Vengeance (2)	Episode 6	May 19, 2010	Jan. 29, 2011	Edward Hall	Robert Murphy
Porter is able to convince Baxter to come back to England with him to put his testimony on the American soldiers killed in Helmand on record, to start a new life and to reconnect with his family living in the USA. A phone call negotiated with Collinson to guarantee Baxter impunity and protection for his family. In order to be picked up by a British evacuation squad, however, the two men first have to cross the border into Afghanistan from Pakistan. At the agreed meeting point, which Arlington learned from Collinson, Baxter is killed in an ambush by one of Sharq's men, as previously agreed between Arlington and Sharq. According to this agreement, Porter should have been killed as well, but the latter can kill the attacker. Seven years earlier, a soldier was shot while on a mission under Porter's command in Baghdad and has been in a coma ever since. Since this soldier dies despite attempts to resuscitate the doctors, the projectile can now be removed from his skull and subjected to a ballistic examination , which Leyla orders in London. It turns out that Collinson was the shooter of the fatal shots back then. Leyla confronts Collinson with her newfound knowledge. He decides to travel to Afghanistan to kill Porter on the spot, but Leyla can warn him by phone. At the end of the fight between Collinson and Porter, Collinson tearfully states that he was under enormous tension during the mission at the time and that he fired the shots reflexively without realizing that it was his own comrades. Porter forgives him. After this confession, the two British are attacked by fighters of the Taliban. Collinson is fatally wounded, while Porter manages to reach the armed and armored Land Rover with which he manages to escape. While driving the car through the Afghan wastelands, a Delta Force team is given the go-ahead to eliminate Porter, who is believed to be moving towards Iran .

Season 2: Project Dawn

The first broadcast of the second season took place from August 12 to October 21, 2011 on the British television channel Sky1 . The German-language premiere was broadcast on the FOX Channel between December 9, 2011 and February 10, 2012.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in UK	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
7th	1	Deadly Command (1)	Episode 1	Aug 21, 2011	Dec 9, 2011	Daniel Percival	Frank Spotnitz
8th	2	Deadly Command (2)	Episode 2	28 Aug 2011	Dec 16, 2011	Daniel Percival	Frank Spotnitz
9	3	Business with death (1)	Episode 3	4th Sep 2011	23 Dec 2011	Bill Eagles	Frank Spotnitz
10	4th	Business with death (2)	Episode 4	Sep 11 2011	Dec 30, 2011	Bill Eagles	Frank Spotnitz
11	5	The Killer Militia (1)	Episode 5	Sep 18 2011	Jan. 6, 2012	Alex Holmes	Richard Zajdlic
12	6th	The Killer Militia (2)	Episode 6	25 Sep 2011	Jan. 13, 2012	Alex Holmes	Richard Zajdlic
13	7th	Brutal Game (1)	Episode 7	Oct 2, 2011	Jan. 20, 2012	Paul Wilmhurst	Simon Burke
14th	8th	Brutal Game (2)	Episode 8	Oct 9, 2011	Jan. 27, 2012	Paul Wilmhurst	Simon Burke
15th	9	Assault (1)	Episode 9	Oct 16, 2011	Feb 3, 2012	Daniel Percival	Tony Saint
16	10	Assault (2)	Episode 10	Oct 23, 2011	Feb 10, 2012	Daniel Percival	Tony Saint

Season 3: Vengeance

The first broadcast of the third season was from August 17 to October 12, 2012 on the British television channel Sky1 . The German-language first broadcast took place from December 14, 2012 to February 8, 2013 on the FOX Channel .

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in UK	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
17th	1	The defector	Episode 1	Sep 2 2012	Dec 14, 2012	Bill Eagles	Tony Saint
18th	2	Locked in	Episode 2	Sep 9 2012	Dec 21, 2012	Bill Eagles	Tony Saint
19th	3	Hunter and hunted	Episode 3	16 Sep 2012	Dec 28, 2012	Paul Wilmshurst	James Dormer
20th	4th	The brother	Episode 4	23 Sep 2012	Jan. 4, 2013	Paul Wilmshurst	James Dormer
21st	5	No choice	Episode 5	Sep 30 2012	Jan. 11, 2013	Julian Holmes	Richard Zajdlic
22nd	6th	On the run	Episode 6	Oct 7, 2012	Jan. 18, 2013	Julian Holmes	Richard Zajdlic
23	7th	The assassination	Episode 7	Oct 14, 2012	Jan. 25, 2013	Michael J. Bassett	John Simpson
24	8th	The promise	Episode 8	Oct 21, 2012	Feb. 1, 2013	Michael J. Bassett	John Simpson
25th	9	Wrong tracks	Episode 9	Oct 28, 2012	Feb 8, 2013	Bill Eagles	Tony Saint
26th	10	Against the time	Episode 10	Nov 4, 2012	Feb 8, 2013	Bill Eagles	Tony Saint

Season 4: Shadow Warfare

The first broadcast of the fourth season was from August 9 to October 18, 2013 on the British television channel Sky1 . The German-language first broadcast was broadcast by the FOX Channel from December 13, 2013 to February 7, 2014.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in UK	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
27	1	Kamali	Episode 1	Oct 28, 2013	Dec 13, 2013	Michael J. Bassett	Simon Burke, Tim Vaughan & Michael J. Bassett
28	2	Man with no past	Episode 2	Nov 4, 2013	Dec 20, 2013	Michael J. Bassett	Simon Burke, Tim Vaughan & Michael J. Bassett
29	3	Chilled	Episode 3	Nov 11, 2013	Dec. 27, 2013	Julian Holmes	James Dormer
30th	4th	The trap	Episode 4	Nov 18, 2013	Jan. 3, 2014	Julian Holmes	James Dormer
31	5	The price of freedom	Episode 5	Nov 25, 2013	Jan. 10, 2014	Paul Wilmshurst	John Simpson
32	6th	The attack	Episode 6	Dec 2, 2013	Jan. 17, 2014	Paul Wilmshurst	John Simpson
33	7th	Pushkin	Episode 7	Dec 9, 2013	Jan. 24, 2014	Stephen Woolfenden	Simon Burke & Ben Newman
34	8th	The killer virus	Episode 8	Dec 16, 2013	Jan. 31, 2014	Stephen Woolfenden	Michael J. Bassett & Tim Vaughan
35	9	step by step	Episode 9	23 Dec 2013	Feb. 7, 2014	Michael J. Bassett	Richard Zajdlic
36	10	At the end of time	Episode 10	Dec 30, 2013	Feb. 7, 2014	Michael J. Bassett	Richard Zajdlic

Season 5: Legacy

The fifth season premiered in the UK on June 3 and ended on Sky1 on July 29, 2015 . In the US, the season ran from July 31, 2015 to October 9, 2015 on Cinemax . The German-language first broadcast was broadcast by the FOX Channel from December 7, 2015 to February 8, 2016.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in UK	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
37	1	Chloe	Episode 1	3rd June 2015	Dec 7, 2015	Michael J. Bassett	Michael J. Bassett, Tim Vaughan & James Dormer
38	2	Office 39	Episode 2	June 10, 2015	Dec 14, 2015	Michael J. Basset	Michael J. Bassett, Tim Vaughan & James Dormer
39	3	The Syndicate	Episode 3	17th June 2015	Dec 21, 2015	Julian Holmes	James Dormer
40	4th	The mercenaries	Episode 4	June 24, 2015	Dec 28, 2015	Julian Holmes	James Dormer
41	5	Beyond the border	Episode 5	July 1, 2015	Jan. 4, 2016	Brendan Maher	Jack Lothian
42	6th	Undercover	Episode 6	July 8, 2015	Jan. 11, 2016	Brendan Maher	Jack Lothian
43	7th	Oppenheimer	Episode 7	15th July 2015	Jan. 18, 2016	Michael J. Bassett	Richard Zajdlic & Ed Whitmore
44	8th	The bomb	Episode 8	July 22, 2015	Jan. 25, 2016	Michael J. Bassett	Ed Whitmore & Jack Lothian
45	9	The last job	Episode 9	July 29, 2015	Feb. 1, 2016	Michael J. Bassett	Jack Lothian
46	10	Billed	Episode 10	July 29, 2015	Feb 8, 2016	Michael J. Bassett	Jack Lothian

Season 6: Retribution

The sixth season premiered in the UK on October 31, 2017 and ended on February 28, 2018 on Sky1 . In the US, the season ran from February 2 to April 6, 2018 on Cinemax . The German-language first broadcast was broadcast by the station FOX from October 8 to December 3, 2018.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in UK	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
47	1	The hunt is on	Episode 1	Oct. 31, 2017	Oct 8, 2018	Michael J. Bassett	Jack Lothian
48	2	Heavy guns	Episode 2	Nov 7, 2017	Oct 15, 2018	Michael J. Bassett	Jack Lothian
49	3	Naked violence	Episode 3	Nov 14, 2017	Oct. 22, 2018	Brendan Maher	Jack Lothian, James Payne, Steve Bailie
50	4th	The expert	Episode 4	Nov 21, 2017	Oct 29, 2018	Brendan Maher	Jack Lothian, James Payne, Steve Bailie
51	5	Dance of death	Episode 5	Nov 28, 2017	Nov 5, 2018	Michael J. Bassett	Jack Lothian
52	6th	A pointless death	Episode 6	Jan. 31, 2018	Nov 12, 2018	Debs Paterson	Jack Lothian
53	7th	A web of lies	Episode 7	7th Feb 2018	19 Nov 2018	Bill Eagles	Jack Lothian & Simon Allen
54	8th	Treason	Episode 8	Feb. 14, 2018	Nov 26, 2018	Bill Eagles	Jack Lothian & Simon Allen
55	9	Double game	Episode 9	Feb 21, 2018	3 Dec 2018	Michael J. Bassett	Jack Lothian
56	10	Against the wall	Episode 10	28 Feb 2018	3 Dec 2018	Michael J. Bassett	Jack Lothian

Season 7: Revolution (Silent War)

The first broadcast of the seventh season ran from January 25, 2019 to March 29, 2019 on Cinemax . The German-language first broadcast was broadcast by the station FOX from October 7 to December 2, 2019.

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in UK	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
57	1	Kingfisher	Episode 1	Jan. 25, 2019	Oct 7, 2019	Bill Eagles	Jack Lothian
58	2	Your father, the killer	Episode 2	Feb. 1, 2019	Oct 14, 2019	Bill Eagles	Jack Lothian
59	3	Power games	Episode 3	Feb. 8, 2019	Oct 21, 2019	Paul Wilmshurst	Jack Lothian
60	4th	Shadow of death	Episode 4	Feb 15, 2019	Oct 28, 2019	Paul Wilmshurst	Jack Lothian
61	5	In the golden triangle	Episode 5	Feb 22, 2019	Nov 4, 2019	Steve Shill	Jack Lothian
62	6th	green Hell	Episode 6	1st March 2019	Nov 11, 2019	Steve Shill	Jack Lothian
63	7th	The wolf	Episode 7	March 8, 2019	Nov 18, 2019	Mark Everest	Jack Lothian & Chris Cornwell
64	8th	Welcome to Moscow	Episode 8	15th March 2019	Nov 25, 2019	Mark Everest	Jack Lothian
65	9	Collision course	Episode 9	March 22, 2019	Dec 2, 2019	Bill Eagles	Jack Lothian
66	10	The unknown enemy	Episode 10	29th March 2019	Dec 2, 2019	Bill Eagles	Jack Lothian

Web links

• Episode list in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Episode list at TheFutonCritic.com
• List of episodes at Fernsehserien.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Strike Back: Season 1 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved December 7, 2016.
2. Jump up ↑ Strike Back: Season 2 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved January 13, 2014.
3. ↑ Strike Back: Season 3 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved January 13, 2014.
4. Jump up ↑ Strike Back: Season 4 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved January 13, 2014.
5. ↑ Strike Back: Season 5 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved December 7, 2016.
6. ^ Strike Back: Season 6 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved December 8, 2018.
7. ↑ Strike Back: Season 7 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved November 30, 2019.