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
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 (1963-10-02) – 20 May 1964 (1964-05-20)

Espionage is a 1963 Associated Television (ATV) series, distributed outside the UK by ITC Entertainment and broadcast in the United States by NBC.

Synopsis[]

The 24 black-and-white episodes, each with a running time of 48 minutes, had no regular cast. Instead they followed various spies as they went about their work, includingspies for the West, spies for the Soviet Bloc, spies working for peace and resistance operatives. Most episodes are set in 1963, but others take place during the Second World War, between the two world wars, or 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.^{[citation needed]}

Episode list[]

This list is in NBC's airdate order.

Music[]

The theme music was composed and conducted by Malcolm Arnold.

References[]

External links[]

• CTA information
• Espionage at IMDb