| Genre: | Anthology |
| Director: | 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 |
| Composer: | Malcolm Arnold Benjamin Frankel |
| Country: | United Kingdom United States |
| Language: | English |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 24 |
| Executive Producer: | Herbert Hirschman |
| Producer: | George Justin |
| Runtime: | 48 min. |
| Company: | ATV ITC Productions |
| Channel: | ITV (UK) NBC (USA) |
Espionage is a British TV spy anthology series broadcast on the ITV network in the UK and on NBC in the United States for a single series in the autumn of 1963. Its US run lasted from October 2, 1963, until September 2, 1964.[1]
Made from actual case histories,[2] 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.[3]
Featured guest stars included:
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.[2]
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 | David Kossoff, Aubrey Morris, George Roubicek, John G. Heller, David Davies | ||
| The Weakling | 9 October 1963 | 19 October 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | John Gregson, Dennis Hopper, Patricia Neal, Steve Plytas, Roger Avon | |
| The Incurable One | 16 October 1963 | 5 October 1963 | Stuart Rosenberg | Ingrid Thulin, Steven Hill, Frederick Schiller, Martin Miller, Norman Mitchell, Andrew Sachs | |
| The Gentle Spies | 23 October 1963 | 26 October 1963 | 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 | David Greene | T. P. McKenna, Patrick Troughton, Billie Whitelaw, Andrew Keir, Maurice Good | |
| To the Very End | 6 November 1963 | 16 November 1963 | David Greene | James Fox, Michael Anderson Jr., Clifford Evans, Robert Cawdron, Roy Patrick | |
| The Dragon Slayer | 13 November 1963 | 9 November 1963 | 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 | Carl Schell, Loretta Parry, Ronald Howard, Donald Pickering, George Pravda, John Herrington, Ian Fleming | ||
| Festival of Pawns | 11 December 1963 | 14 December 1963 | James Sheldon | Diane Cilento, Sam Wanamaker, Peter Howell, Dennis Edwards, Mark Hardy | |
| A Camel to Ride | 18 December 1963 | 28 March 1964 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | David Greene | Bernard Lee, Nigel Davenport, Geoffrey Chater, Howard Lang, Ilario Bisi-Pedro | ||
| Once a Spy ... | 4 March 1964 | David Greene | 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 | Donald Pleasence, Leonard Sachs, Jeremy Spenser, John Bennett, Robert Webber | ||
| Some Other Kind of World | 18 March 1964 | 14 March 1964 | 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 |
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".[4] She added that the series "promises to be a most interesting addition to the network schedule."[4]