Espionage is a British TV spy anthology series broadcast on the ITV network in the UK and on NBC in the USA for a single series in the autumn of 1963. Its American run lasted from October 2, 1963, until September 2, 1964.

Synopsis Made from actual case histories, 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.

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.

Production Herbert Hirschman and Herbert Brodkin were the producers.

In the United States, the series was broadcast from 9 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday nights.

Episode list 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 John Gregson, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Neal, Steve Plytas, Roger Avon The Incurable One 16 October 1963 5 October 1963 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 T. P. McKenna, Patrick Troughton, Billie Whitelaw, Andrew Keir, Maurice Good To the Very End 6 November 1963 16 November 1963 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 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 15 February 1964 David Greene Bernard Lee, Nigel Davenport, Geoffrey Chater, Howard Lang, Ilario Bisi-Pedro Once a Spy ... 4 March 1964 22 February 1964 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 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". She added that the series "promises to be a most interesting addition to the network schedule."

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