Espionage (TV series)
| Espionage | |
|---|---|
|
1963 title screenshot. | |
| Genre | Anthology |
| Written by |
Raymond Bowers Norman Borisoff John Furia, Jr. David Greene Donald Jonson Ernest Kinoy Albert Ruben Halsted Welles |
| Directed by |
Robert Butler Fielder Cook David Greene Ray Herbert Herbert Hirschman Seth Holt Ken Hughes William T. Kotcheff Anton M. Leader Michael Powell Stuart Rosenberg James Sheldon |
| Composer(s) |
Malcolm Arnold Benjamin Frankel |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Herbert Hirschman |
| Producer(s) | George Justin |
| Running time | 48 min. |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format | Black-and-white, 4:3 |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | 2 October 1963 – 25 March 1964 |
Espionage is a 1963 Associated Television (ATV) series, distributed outside the UK by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by NBC.
Synopsis
The 24 b/w episodes with a running time of 48 minutes per episode had no regular cast, choosing instead to follow various "spies" as they did their "jobs." The episodes featured spies for the West, for the Soviet Bloc, spies working for peace and resistance operatives. The episodes drifted between contemporary times, the Second World War and the interwar period with occasional episodes set in other times.
Guest cast
Featured guest stars included:
- Martin Balsam
- David Kossoff
- Dennis Hopper
- Patricia Neal
- Joan Hickson
- Patrick Troughton
- Billie Whitelaw
- Patrick Cargill
- Jill Bennett
- Millicent Martin
- Anthony Quayle - a real-life "spy" with the Special Operations Executive during World War II.
Many of the cast members were largely unknown in the United States when this series was first broadcast and some members would go on to fame in the US because of the exposure.
Episode list
This list is in NBC's airdate order.
| Title | Air date | Director | Stars |
| A Covenant with Death | 2 October 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | David Kossoff, Aubrey Morris, George Roubicek, John G. Heller |
| The Weakling | 9 October 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | John Gregson, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Neal, Steve Plytas, Roger Avon |
| The Incurable One | 16 October 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | Steven Hill, Frederick Schiller, Martin Miller, Norman Mitchell, Andrew Sachs |
| The Gentle Spies | 23 October 1963 | David Greene | Barry Foster, Angela Douglas, Godfrey Quigley, Joan Hickson, Michael Hordern, Eric Pohlmann |
| He Rises on Sunday and We on Monday | 30 October 1963 | David Greene | T. P. McKenna, Patrick Troughton, Billie Whitelaw, Andrew Keir, Maurice Good |
| To the Very End | 6 November 1963 | David Greene | James Fox, Michael Anderson, Jr., Clifford Evans, Robert Cawdron |
| The Dragon Slayer | 13 November 1963 | William T. Kotcheff | Sam Kydd, Patrick Cargill, Thorley Walters, Peter Dyneley, Alan Tilvern, Cyril Shaps, Ric Young, Stephen Jack, Michael Chow, Kristopher Kum, Milton Reid |
| The Whistling Shrimp | 20 November 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | Dana Elcar |
| The Light of a Friendly Star | 4 December 1963 | James Sheldon | Carl Schell, Loretta Parry, Ronald Howard, Donald Pickering, George Pravda, John Herrington, Ian Fleming |
| Festival of Pawns | 11 December 1963 | James Sheldon | Diane Cilento, Sam Wanamaker, Peter Howell, Dennis Edwards, Mark Hardy |
| A Camel to Ride | 18 December 1963 | Fielder Cook | Bill Travers, Marne Maitland, Roger Delgado, Sandor Elès, Vernon Dobtcheff, Derek Sydney, Anthony Jacobs, Edward Underdown, Gertan Klauber, Tracy Connell |
| Never Turn Your Back on a Friend | 1 January 1964 | Michael Powell | Mark Eden, Donald Madden, Julian Glover, Pamela Brown |
| Medal for a Turned Coat | 15 January 1964 | David Greene | Nigel Stock, Fritz Weaver, Joseph Furst, Sylvia Kay, Richard Carpenter, Michael Wolf, Carl Conway, David Blake Kelly |
| The Final Decision | 22 January 1964 | Ray Herbert | Martin Balsam, Alan Gifford, Ann Lynn, Richard Marner, James Maxwell, Gordon Sterne |
| Do You Remember Leo Winters? | 29 January 1964 | Robert Butler | George A. Cooper, Peter Madden, Cyril Luckham, Rhoda Lewis, Brian Peck, Mostyn Evans, Alan Haywood, David Healy |
| We the Hunted | 5 February 1964 | Ken Hughes | Joseph Campanella, Anthony Dawson |
| The Frantick Rebel | 12 February 1964 | Michael Powell | Roger Livesey, Stanley Baxter, Jill Bennett, Bernard Bresslaw, Max Adrian, Graham Crowden, Gordon Gostelow, Edward Jewesbury, Declan Mulholland, Edna Doré, Patsy Byrne |
| Castles in Spain | 19 February 1964 | Anton M. Leader | Roland Culver, David Spenser |
| Snow on Mount Kama | 26 February 1964 | David Greene | Bernard Lee, Nigel Davenport, Geoffrey Chater, Howard Lang, Ilario Bisi-Pedro |
| Once a Spy ... | 4 March 1964 | David Greene | Peter Vaughan, Millicent Martin, Earl Cameron, William Lucas, Basil Dignam, Harry Landis, Eric Thompson, Shay Gorman, Glynn Edwards, Dickie Owen, Tom Bowman |
| The Liberators | 11 March 1964 | Seth Holt | Donald Pleasence, Leonard Sachs, Jeremy Spenser, John Bennett |
| Some Other Kind of World | 18 March 1964 | Herbert Hirschman | John Hollis, Alan Tilvern, George Pastell, Jeffry Wickham, David Healy, Bruce Boa, John Tillinger, Richard Marner |
| A Free Agent | 21 March 1964 | Michael Powell | Anthony Quayle, Siân Phillips, Norman Foster, John Abineri, Gertan Klauber |
| A Tiny Drop of Poison | 21 March 1964 | Herbert Hirschman | Louise Sorel, Jim Backus, Jack May, Charles Lloyd-Pack |
Music
The theme music was composed and conducted by Malcolm Arnold.
References
External links
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