Strike Back / Episode List
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 | ||
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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.
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German title | Original title | First broadcast in UK | German language first broadcast (D) | Director | script |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
- ↑ Strike Back: Season 1 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved December 7, 2016.
- Jump up ↑ Strike Back: Season 2 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved January 13, 2014.
- ↑ Strike Back: Season 3 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved January 13, 2014.
- Jump up ↑ Strike Back: Season 4 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved January 13, 2014.
- ↑ Strike Back: Season 5 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved December 7, 2016.
- ^ Strike Back: Season 6 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved December 8, 2018.
- ↑ Strike Back: Season 7 . In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved November 30, 2019.