Espionage
Espionage
TV ShowEnded

Espionage

10.0 / 10
1963
1 season
24 episodes
Action & AdventureDrama

Pulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.

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  • Ep 1

    1.A Covenant with Death

    02-10-196348m

    During World War II, two Norwegian resistance fighters are tried for the deaths of an elderly couple.

  • Ep 2

    2.The Weakling

    09-10-196348m

    An American commando is sent to occupied France to contact the underground, but he's captured and endures horrific torture by the Nazis, protecting what he believes to be a top mil...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Incurable One

    16-10-196348m

    Celeste, a Scandinavian aristocrat who has lost everything in the war, is trained as a killer and spy by an American officer in World War II. But, years after the war, he learns th...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Gentle Spies

    23-10-196348m

    An Aldermaston-type ban-the-bomb group is staging sit-in demonstrations around London, even on the steps of Whitehall. Worse, they keep releasing top secret documents in fliers and...

  • Ep 5

    5.He Rises on Sunday and We on Monday

    30-10-196348m

    During the First World War, Sir Roger Casement returns to Ireland to lead the Easter Rising.

  • Ep 6

    6.To the Very End

    06-11-196348m

    A young American in France joins a trio of French anti-nuclear protesters in the kidnapping of Professor Moreau, an eminent scientist. But one of them has another agenda - a person...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Dragon Slayer

    13-11-196348m

    Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-Sen is kidnapped in London and held prisoner.

  • Ep 8

    8.The Whistling Shrimp

    20-11-196348m

    A journalist begins to suspect CIA involvement in the internal politics of a newly-emergent African nation.

  • Ep 9

    9.The Light of a Friendly Star

    04-12-196348m

    A spy gets into the British embassy in West Germany. He manages to get some secrets, but to make good his escape, he reluctantly must kidnap the ambassador's 10 year old daughter.

  • Ep 10

    10.Festival of Pawns

    11-12-196348m

    The beautiful Lina has defected to the West from East Germany. But is she a genuine refugee or a spy?

  • Ep 11

    11.A Camel to Ride

    18-12-196348m

    Catholic priest Father James leads protests against a nation's oppressive goverment.

  • Ep 12

    12.Never Turn Your Back on a Friend

    01-01-196448m

    A multi-national commando team raid a Heavy Water plant in occupied Europe - and come away with the Chief Scientist...but which country will win the battle for the scientist's dead...

  • Ep 13

    13.Medal for a Turned Coat

    15-01-196448m

    A German officer arrives in wartime England to negotiate a peace settlement in the event of Hitler's being assassinated by his own High Command.

  • Ep 14

    14.The Final Decision

    22-01-196448m

    When Richard Carey is told by his doctor that he's going to die soon, his first reaction is to get drunk and stay drunk. But the mysterious Mr. Smith has another suggestion about w...

  • Ep 15

    15.Do You Remember Leo Winters?

    29-01-196448m

    A onetime WWII hero diver is reactivated to do some underwater spying for MI5-against an American naval vessel anchored at Portsmouth. But is he reliable?

  • Ep 16

    16.We, the Hunted

    05-02-196448m

    An old man living in Spain seems likely to be be an escaped Nazi war criminal. Israeli agents arrive to investigate.

  • Ep 17

    17.The Frantick Rebel

    12-02-196448m

    It's 1777, and a mysterious lady is in London...is she spying for the American revolutionaries? Dr Johnson and Boswell investigate, but always seem a couple of steps behind.

  • Ep 18

    18.Castles in Spain

    19-02-196448m

    An aging onetime revolutionary war fighter returns to Spain to visit a fellow American friend, but complications arise when a badly wounded young man, hiding from the police, conce...

  • Ep 19

    19.Snow on Mount Kama

    26-02-196448m

    As a British colony in Africa moves toward independence, the foreign office recommends the white citizens leave. As some plot an insurrection against the incoming Black president,...

  • Ep 20

    20.Once a Spy...

    04-03-196448m

    A washed-up British spy, desperate for one last big chance to prove himself to his superiors, agrees to go on a secret mission in Africa – unaware that his chief wants him to fail.

  • Ep 21

    21.The Liberators

    11-03-196448m

    An American mercenary is sent to a small Latin American country to rescue the famous revolutionary Escalon — but finds a different kind of man than the one he was expecting.

  • Ep 22

    22.Some Other Kind of World

    18-03-196448m

    When an American jazz band does a goodwill performance in Russia, their self-important guitarist defies state department guidelines and goes out with a local girl, leading to KGB i...

  • Ep 23

    23.A Free Agent

    21-03-196448m

    When a Soviet agent falls in love with a woman on the other side, he falls under the scrutiny of his allies and his enemies.

  • Ep 24

    24.A Tiny Drop of Poison

    20-05-196448m

    A rumor is deliberately spread to the effect that an American embassy official is 'emotionally unstable'.

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