Espionage (TV series)
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| 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 |
| Composers | Malcolm Arnold Benjamin Frankel |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Herbert Hirschman |
| Producer | George Justin |
| Running time | 48 min. |
| Production companies | ATV ITC Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV (UK) NBC (USA) |
| Release | 2 October 1963 – 20 May 1964 |
Espionage is a British TV spy anthology series broadcast on the ITV network in the UK and on NBC in the United States for a single series in the autumn of 1963. Its US run lasted from October 2, 1963, until September 2, 1964.[1]
Synopsis
[edit]Made from actual case histories,[2] episodes used newsreel and documented narratives to show the activities of spies from various countries as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.[3]
Guest cast
[edit]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.
Production
[edit]Herbert Hirschman[3] and Herbert Brodkin were the producers.[1]
In the United States, the series was broadcast from 9 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday nights.[2]
Episode list
[edit]This list is in NBC's airdate order.
| Title | Air date NBC | Air date ITV | Director | Stars |
| A Covenant with Death | 2 October 1963 | 12 October 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | David Kossoff, Aubrey Morris, George Roubicek, John G. Heller, David Davies |
| The Weakling | 9 October 1963 | 19 October 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | John Gregson, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Neal, Steve Plytas, Roger Avon |
| The Incurable One | 16 October 1963 | 5 October 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | Ingrid Thulin, Steven Hill, Frederick Schiller, Martin Miller, Norman Mitchell, Andrew Sachs |
| The Gentle Spies | 23 October 1963 | 26 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 | 2 November 1963 | David Greene | T. P. McKenna, Patrick Troughton, Billie Whitelaw, Andrew Keir, Maurice Good |
| To the Very End | 6 November 1963 | 16 November 1963 | David Greene | James Fox, Michael Anderson Jr., Clifford Evans, Robert Cawdron, Roy Patrick |
| The Dragon Slayer | 13 November 1963 | 9 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 | 21 December 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | Dana Elcar |
| The Light of a Friendly Star | 4 December 1963 | 30 November 1963 | James Sheldon | Carl Schell, Loretta Parry, Ronald Howard, Donald Pickering, George Pravda, John Herrington, Ian Fleming |
| Festival of Pawns | 11 December 1963 | 14 December 1963 | James Sheldon | Diane Cilento, Sam Wanamaker, Peter Howell, Dennis Edwards, Mark Hardy |
| A Camel to Ride | 18 December 1963 | 28 March 1964 | 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 | 4 January 1964 | Michael Powell | Mark Eden, Donald Madden, Julian Glover, Pamela Brown |
| Medal for a Turned Coat | 15 January 1964 | 11 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 | 18 January 1964 | Ray Herbert | Martin Balsam, Alan Gifford, Ann Lynn, Richard Marner, James Maxwell, Gordon Sterne |
| Do You Remember Leo Winters? | 29 January 1964 | 25 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 | 29 February 1964 | Ken Hughes | Joseph Campanella, Anthony Dawson |
| The Frantick Rebel | 12 February 1964 | 1 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, Pauline Boty |
| Castles in Spain | 19 February 1964 | 8 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 | 7 March 1964 | Seth Holt | Donald Pleasence, Leonard Sachs, Jeremy Spenser, John Bennett, Robert Webber |
| Some Other Kind of World | 18 March 1964 | 14 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 | 21 March 1964 | Michael Powell | Anthony Quayle, Siân Phillips, Norman Foster, John Abineri, Gertan Klauber |
| A Tiny Drop of Poison | 20 May 1964 | 7 December 1963 | Herbert Hirschman | Louise Sorel, Jim Backus, Jack May, Charles Lloyd-Pack |
Critical response
[edit]Cynthia Lowry, in a review of the premiere episode for the Associated Press, wrote, "It was well produced and had a fine cast of actors".[4] She added that the series "promises to be a most interesting addition to the network schedule."[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 261. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
- ^ a b Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle F. (2009). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present. Random House Publishing Group. pp. 426–427. ISBN 978-0-307-48320-1. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ a b Terrace, Vincent (2014). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed. McFarland. p. 311. ISBN 978-0-7864-8641-0. Retrieved 27 February 2022.
- ^ a b Lowry, Cynthia (3 October 1963). "ABC Quiz Show Gets Cancelled". The Marshall News Messenger. Associated Press. p. 10. Retrieved 13 September 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
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