Espionage (TV series)
Espionage is a 1963 Associated Television (ATV) series, distributed outside the UK by ITC Entertainment and broadcast in the United States by NBC.
Espionage | |
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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 |
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 |
Distributor | Independent Television Corporation |
Release | |
Original network | ITV (UK) NBC (USA) |
Picture format | Black and white, 4:3 |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original release | 2 October 1963 – 20 May 1964 |
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.
Music
The theme music was composed and conducted by Malcolm Arnold.