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Nick Thorne, a successful businessman whose company markets games, is pulled by his former partner Magnus into a game which appears far too real... The One Game is a four-part 1988 British television drama serial, produced by Central Independent Television and broadcast on ITV from 4 June to 25 June 1988. Set and filmed in Birmingham, it starred Patrick Malahide, Stephen Dillane, Pippa Haywood and Kate McKenzie, and was written by John Brown from a concept by Tony Benet.
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1988-06-25
S1E4 — Monday
The battle of wits between Nick and Magnus reaches its end game. Everything will come down to one final realisation and then confrontation. For The One Game started many years before ...
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Stephen Dillane
Nicholas Thorne
Patrick Malahide
Magnus
Pippa Haywood
Jenny Thorne
Alex Norton
The Conjuror
David Mallinson
Tom Darke
Kate McKenzie
Fay
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