| Espionage | |
| 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 | 60 mins. |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NBC |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| 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.
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Synopsis
The series of 24 one-hour monchrome episodes 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 |
| The Weakling | 9 October 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | John Gregson, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Neal |
| The Incurable One | 16 October 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | Steven Hill |
| The Gentle Spies | 23 October 1963 | David Greene | Barry Foster, Angela Douglas, Joan Hickson, Michael Hordern |
| He Rises on Sunday and We on Monday | 30 October 1963 | David Greene | T.P. McKenna, Patrick Troughton, Billie Whitelaw |
| To the Very End | 6 November 1963 | David Greene | James Fox, Michael Anderson, Jr. |
| The Dragon Slayer | 13 November 1963 | William T. Kotcheff | Sam Kydd, Patrick Cargill |
| The Whistling Shrimp | 20 November 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | Dana Elcar |
| The Light of a Friendly Star | 4 December 1963 | James Sheldon | Donald Pickering |
| Festival of Pawns | 11 December 1963 | James Sheldon | Diane Cilento, Sam Wanamaker |
| A Camel to Ride | 18 December 1963 | Fielder Cook | Bill Travers |
| 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 |
| The Final Decision | 22 January 1964 | Ray Herbert | Martin Balsam |
| Do You Remember Leo Winters? | 29 January 1964 | Robert Butler | George A. Cooper, Peter Madden |
| We the Hunted | 5 February 1964 | Ken Hughes | Joseph Campanella |
| The Frantick Rebel | 12 February 1964 | Michael Powell | Roger Livesey, Stanley Baxter, Jill Bennett |
| Castles in Spain | 19 February 1964 | Anton M. Leader | Roland Culver |
| Snow on Mount Kama | 26 February 1964 | David Greene | Bernard Lee, Nigel Davenport |
| Once a Spy ... | 4 March 1964 | David Greene | Peter Vaughan , Millicent Martin , Earl Cameron |
| The Liberators | 11 March 1964 | Seth Holt | Donald Pleasence, Leonard Sachs |
| Some Other Kind of World | 18 March 1964 | Herbert Hirschman | John Hollis |
| A Free Agent | 21 March 1964 | Michael Powell | Anthony Quayle, Siân Phillips, Norman Foster |
| 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.
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