The Phoenix Team - Episode Guide

Former Canadian master spy David Brook, relegated to the Filing and Records Department by a boss who has little use or respect for David and his generation of agents, accidentally meets his former lover, British MI6 agent Val Koester, with whom he frequently collaborated in the "old days". When David is approached by a defecting Soviet agent with secrets to sell, he seeks Val's assistance in verifying the man's story.

David and Val must uncover the mole in British Intelligence who has been leaking the codes used by top secret couriers to the Soviets.

When their old friend and colleague is killed, Brook and Val try to track down his killer. Their relationship is threatened because the son, also an agent, falls in love with Valerie, who is attracted to him as well.

Val is working undercover to try and determine who is stealing scientific secrets from a famous scientist. When Val shoots the scientist's brother, who is only using him, she is removed from the case. Disobeying orders, she continues to work to clear her name. The scientist has a formula which has very positive medical uses, but can also be made into an offensive weapon.

This episode concerns a young black communications officer in Brook's office who believes that he will never attain his dream of becoming a field operative, because of racial prejudice against him. Brook and Val are with Jerome and his wife Grace when they take part in a demonstration against racial injustice. A counter demonstration breaks out in which Grace is critically injured. Brook and Val, in investigating an organization called the Canadian Patriot Society, discover that members of the Ku Klux Klan are in Canada stirring up fear and dissent.

When his barber suddenly disappears, in the midst of giving him a haircut, Brook begins to investigate. Val shows up and they uncover a complex plot by Arabs to gain control of a major department store chain.

After his girlfriend, a British agent, is killed in Hungary, a veteran agent disappears for three months. When he surfaces, he asks Brook for help, thinking that the Canadian authorities are pursuing him. When Brook tries to bring him into Canada safely, the agent is killed. Val is on the case as well, and Brook believes that she may be behind the whole affair.