Espionage (TV series)

Espionage
1963 title screenshot.
Genre	Anthology
Written by	Raymond Bowers Norman Borisoff John Furia David Greene Donald Johnson Donald Jonson Ernest Kinoy Albert Ruben Halsted Welles
Directed by	David Greene Herbert Hirschman Ken Hughes Michael Powell Stuart Rosenberg James Sheldon
Composer(s)	Malcolm Arnold Benjamin Frankel
Country of origin	United Kingdom
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.
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Picture format	Black-and-white, 4:3
Audio format	Monaural
Original run	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:

• 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 member 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, 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, 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	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, Vernon Dobtcheff, Derek Sydney, Anthony Jacobs, Edward Underdown, Gertan Klauber
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 Fürst, 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, 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
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, Jeffrey Wickham, David Healy, Bruce Boa, John Tillinger
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

Music

The theme music was composed and conducted by Malcolm Arnold.

External links

• CTA information
• Espionage at the Internet Movie Database
• Espionage at TV.com