Espionage
Espionage was an ATV production of 24 stand-alone dramas about (can anyone guess??) espionage (!). The mid-60's was certainly a golden age for that genre. Danger Man, I Spy, The Avengers, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Champions, Mission: Impossible, the Bond films, and even sitcoms spoofing them such as Get Smart. In addition to the expected cast of British actors, a number of Amercian actors appear as well, most of them from the New York City based studios which, at that time, were in their final days. Not only was this broadcast in the UK by ATV, it also appeared in the US on NBC, Wednesday nights at 9 during the 1963-1964 season. During that same time block CBS was showing the Beverly Hillbillies and the Dick Van Dyke Show, the #1 and #3 rated programs in the US that season, so it appears NBC's main interest in Espionage was just an inexpensive way of waving a white flag at CBS. I could find no information on ATV broadcasts so the NBC episode sequence and original broadcast dates are used here.
Espionage was an ATV production of 24 stand-alone dramas about (can anyone guess??) espionage (!). The mid-60's was certainly a golden age for that genre. Danger Man, I Spy, The Avengers, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Champions, Mission: Impossible, the Bond films, and even sitcoms spoofing them such as Get Smart. In addition to the expected cast of British actors, a number of Amercian actors appear as well, most of them from the New York City based studios which, at that time, were in their final days. Not only was this broadcast in the UK by ATV, it also appeared in the US on NBC, Wednesday nights at 9 during the 1963-1964 season. During that same time block CBS was showing the Beverly Hillbillies and the Dick Van Dyke Show, the #1 and #3 rated programs in the US that season, so it appears NBC's main interest in Espionage was just an inexpensive way of waving a white flag at CBS. I could find no information on ATV broadcasts so the NBC episode sequence and original broadcast dates are used here.
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