Broadcast History
- In the United Kingdom, Series One was broadcast nationwide on ITV in September and October 1978; Series Two, January–March 1980; Series Three, June and July 1980. ITV repeated The Sandbaggers once in the 1980s. In the 1990s, the cable/satellite channels Granada Plus and SelecTV showed repeats.
- In Canada, the CBC aired The Sandbaggers nationwide in the 1980s.
- In Australia, the Nine Network aired The Sandbaggers nationwide in 1982.
- In the United States, there was never a nationwide broadcast, but The Sandbaggers was sold in syndication to individual PBS stations from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s.
- In Italy, the series was briefly shown on some local television stations in 1988. All episodes were dubbed in Italian.
- In Israel, Channel 1 aired The Sandbaggers (titled "The Selected") nationwide in the mid 1980s. All episodes were subtitled in Hebrew.
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