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Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
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- E1 Part OneNext upOct 31, 1982 · 30 min
Synopsis
A relief column led by Major de Beaujolais approaches Fort Zinderneuf, only to find the garrison apparently slaughtered. Legionnaire Digby Geste offers to climb in to investigate, but then seems to disappear himself. The Major enters, and finds a letter grasped in the dead hand of Sergeant-Major Lejaune, mentioning a Lady Brandon, in England. Before investigating further, the fort goes up in flames. Prompted by the letter, de Beaujolais recalls visiting Lady Brandon years earlier, when she was bringing up her three nephews, Digby, John and Michael 'Beau' Geste.
Guest stars: Anthony Calf (Bugler), John Forgeham (Sergeant-Major Lejaune), David Sumner (Major Henri de Beaulolais), Wendy Williams (Lady Brandon), Barry Dennen (Buddy), Christopher Malcolm (Hank), David Shawyer (Sergeant-Major Dufour), Paul Hawkins (Young Beau)
- E2 Part TwoNov 7, 1982 · 30 min
Synopsis
The brothers have returned to Brandon Abbas from university, when a valuable family heirloom, the 'Blue Water' sapphire, goes missing. Lady Brandon is reluctant to call the police and hesitates, to give an opportunity for the jewel to be returned; instead, Michael vanishes after leaving a note accepting responsibility for the theft.
Guest stars: Benedict Taylor (Michael 'Beau' Geste), Jonathon Morris (John Geste), Anthony Calf (Digby Geste), Wendy Williams (Lady Brandon), Paul Hawkins (Young Beau), Paul Critchley (Young John), Robin Crane (Young Digby), Sian Pattenden (Young Isobel)
- E3 Part ThreeNov 14, 1982 · 30 min
Synopsis
To protect Michael, Digby also departs, taking the blame in a note left for John; John, though, guesses that they will have both gone to join the French Foreign Legion, and quietly leaves to do likewise. Accepted as a recruit, he is befriended by petty criminal and former legionnaire Boldini, who is re-enlisting.
Guest stars: Benedict Taylor (Michael 'Beau' Geste), Jonathon Morris (John Geste), Anthony Calf (Digby Geste), Sally Baxter (Isobel Rivers), Julia Chambers (Claudia), Philip Shelley (Augustus Brandon), Stefan Gryff (Boldini), Andrew Armour (Recruiting Sergeant-Major)
- E4 Part FourNov 21, 1982 · 30 min
Synopsis
The brothers are reunited after being sent to Oran with a draft of new recruits. Their Sergeant-Major, Lejaune, takes a disliking to the trio, and also to two American recruits, Hank and Buddy. Boldini overhears the brothers discussing the Blue Water, and – with his criminal contacts – offers to help them, only to be rebuffed.
Guest stars: Benedict Taylor (Michael 'Beau' Geste), Jonathon Morris (John Geste), Anthony Calf (Digby Geste), John Forgeham (Sergeant-Major Lejaune), Barry Dennen (Buddy), Christopher Malcolm (Hank), Stefan Gryff (Boldini), Terry Gurry (Corporal)
- E5 Part FiveNov 28, 1982 · 30 min
Synopsis
Boldini informs Lejaune that Michael has a stolen jewel on him. After Boldini fails to talk two recruits to steal it for him, Lejaune himself persuades former pickpocket Bolidar to do so. He is caught, and narrowly evades lynching. Lejaune, though, knows that they are to be sent to the isolated Fort Zinderneuf, where it will be easier to isolate Michael from his friends.
Guest stars: Benedict Taylor (Michael 'Beau' Geste), Jonathon Morris (John Geste), Anthony Calf (Digby Geste), John Forgeham (Sergeant-Major Lejaune)
- E6 Part SixDec 5, 1982 · 30 min
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The column marches across country to Fort Zinderneuf; once there, Lejaune has Hank, Buddy and Digby sent to a further post. Lejaune's harsh treatment, and promotion of Boldini to corporal, cause increasing resentment; when the fort's CO, Renouf, shoots himself, Lejaune has to take command.
Guest stars: Benedict Taylor (Michael 'Beau' Geste), Jonathon Morris (John Geste), Anthony Calf (Digby Geste), John Forgeham (Sergeant-Major Lejaune)
- E7 Part SevenDec 12, 1982 · 30 min
Synopsis
Some of the men are on the edge of mutiny when the fort comes under repeated attack from the Tuareg. Before being killed, Michael reveals he has some letters and a parcel for his brothers and Lady Brandon. Eventually, the last two survivors of the garrison are John and Lejaune; John confronts Lejaune, who had found the hidden jewel after searching Michael's corpse.
Guest stars: Benedict Taylor (Michael 'Beau' Geste), Jonathon Morris (John Geste), John Forgeham (Sergeant-Major Lejaune)
- E8 Part EightDec 19, 1982 · 30 min
Synopsis
John kills Lejaune in the struggle, and then flees the fort on the approach of the relief column. Digby finds Michael's body and, remembering a childhood promise, gives it a Viking funeral – on a pyre – before fleeing himself. He finds John and they set off on foot, but is killed; only John is able to reach England where he returns the Blue Water to Lady Brandon – as Michael had known, a copy made when she had been forced to sell the original.
Guest stars: Benedict Taylor (Michael 'Beau' Geste), Jonathon Morris (John Geste), Anthony Calf (Digby Geste), John Forgeham (Sergeant-Major Lejaune)
Cast & crew
Created by Alistair Bell, Terrance Dicks
