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Behind Closed Doors

Season: 1

Episode: 1

The Cape Canaveral Story

Air Date:02/10/1958

Wayne Hollister, a Florida fisherman, is approached by a Mr. Meyers who rents his boat for one day and demands to be taken to the waters off Cape Canaveral, not to fish, but to watch a rocket launching.

Crew

Name: Paul Monash

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: Paul Wendkos

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Virginia Christine

Character: Julie Hollister

Department: Acting

Name: William Henry

Character: Herb Goodwin

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Whitney

Character: Edwin Getty

Department: Acting

Name: Joe Maross

Character: Wayne Hollister

Department: Acting

Name: Ellis M. Zacharias

Character: Self (as Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias)

Department: Acting

Name: Jacques Aubuchon

Character: Charlie Meyers

Department: Acting

Name: Gabriel Curtiz

Character: Russian Scientist

Department: Acting

Name: Marc Snow

Character: Captain

Department: Acting

Name: Kathleen O'Malley

Character: Sue-Ellen

Department: Acting

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Episode: 2

Flight to Freedom

Air Date:09/10/1958

Brauer, a German scientist is held prisoner by the communists. The German scientist, forced to serve Russia’s guided missile program, attempts an escape when he sees his associate turned into a "human vegetable" by brain surgery.

Crew

Name: Fenton Earnshaw

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: Paul Wendkos

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Francis Lederer

Character: Brauer

Department: Acting

Name: Arlene Martel

Character: Maria

Department: Acting

Name: Jack Kruschen

Character: Ruchef

Department: Acting

Name: John Wengraf

Character: Von Elm

Department: Acting

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Episode: 3

Double Jeopardy

Air Date:16/10/1958

British and U.S. intelligence agents learn that the Soviet ambassador to the U.N. is scheduled to arrive in London and divulge the Russian's new tactics to the Russian embassy there. The Allies try to plant a recording device in the embassy and ask a staid Britisher to help them.

Crew

Name: Gerd Oswald

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Leonard Lee

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Lester Matthews

Character: Colonel Brookston

Department: Acting

Name: Reginald Gardiner

Character: Ernest Farrington

Department: Acting

Name: Joseph Marievsky

Character: Alexis Shtaravna

Department: Acting

Name: Tom McKee

Character: Collins

Department: Acting

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Episode: 4

Mig 9

Air Date:23/10/1958

Lt. Tarkhanov, a Russian test pilot, sent to Germany on secret mission is hampered by Russian agents. The Russian Air Force lieutenant who wants to defect to the West, arranges to fly out the latest Rusian Mig jet to an American Air Force base in Germany.

Crew

Name: John Peyser

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Malvin Wald

Role: Teleplay

Department: Writing

Name: Jon Manchip White

Role: Story

Department: Writing

Name: Henry F. Greenberg

Role: Teleplay

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Kenneth Tobey

Character: Colonel Pete Kellogg

Department: Acting

Name: Jim Bannon

Character: Colonel Patterson

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Coe

Character: Lieutenant Tarkhanov

Department: Acting

Name: Melinda Byron

Character: Janet Kellogg

Department: Acting

Name: Douglas Evans

Character: Kincaid

Department: Acting

Name: Linda Leighton

Character: Leona

Department: Acting

Name: John McNamara

Character: Ingram

Department: Acting

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Episode: 5

Trouble in Test Cell 19

Air Date:30/10/1958

A new jet engine that is being tested for its suitability for mass production blows up on the final test. Exam of the wreckage shows evidence of sabotage. U.S. Intelligence agents try to find the sabateur.

Crew

Name: Richard Tregaskis

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: John Peyser

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Jacqueline Hazard

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Jacques Aubuchon

Character: Shulnik

Department: Acting

Name: Sam Buffington

Character: Horne

Department: Acting

Name: Bek Nelson

Character: Kitty

Department: Acting

Name: James Todd

Character: Clarke

Department: Acting

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Episode: 6

Man in the Moon

Air Date:06/11/1958

Clara Koller, a widow, has the important job of handling the budget of a manufacturing company engaged in a secret government project. When she is asked to join a friendship club she accepts, unaware that the club is a front for enemy agents.

Crew

Name: Irving Wallace

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: John Peyser

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Denver Pyle

Character: Roger Woodson

Department: Acting

Name: Judith Evelyn

Character: Clara Koller

Department: Acting

Name: Ruth Terry

Character: Sally Anderson

Department: Acting

Name: Stewart Bradley

Character: Sam Lombardi

Department: Acting

Name: John Damler

Character: Dan Radford

Department: Acting

Name: Ruth Lee

Character: Mrs. Gates

Department: Acting

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Episode: 7

The Nike Story

Air Date:13/11/1958

Captain John Benson is sent to investigate when a fellow officer is murdered trying to trap an enemy agent on a missile base. Benson arranges to hold open house at the base in an attempt to capture the entire ring of agents at the base.

Crew

Name: John Peyser

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: John Hawkins

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: John Doucette

Character: Capt. John Benson

Department: Acting

Name: Bill Quinn

Character: Col. Barrett Cole

Department: Acting

Name: Angela Greene

Character: Hazel Shaw

Department: Acting

Name: William Bryant

Character: Capt. Peter Shiller

Department: Acting

Name: Ralph Clanton

Character: Ed Bailey

Department: Acting

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Episode: 8

It Was Learned on High Authority

Air Date:27/11/1958

Fred Lang, an enemy agent, works as an engineer on a missile base in Los Angeles. He learns that a group of scientists is scheduled to fly to Cape Canaveral and is ordered to place a bomb on the plane.

Crew

Name: John Peyser

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Stanley Niss

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: Herbert Abbott Spiro

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Richard Davies

Character: Werner

Department: Acting

Name: Alex Gerry

Character: Barnes

Department: Acting

Name: Jeanne Baird

Character: Nina

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Knapp

Character: Fred Lang

Department: Acting

Name: Walter Maslow

Character: Salvatori

Department: Acting

Name: Dick Rich

Character: Martin

Department: Acting

Name: Ellis M. Zacharias

Character: Self (as Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias)

Department: Acting

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Episode: 9

The Enemy on the Flank

Air Date:04/12/1958

U.S. Intelligence men learn that a U.S.S.R. sub operating from a base in Albania plan to interfere with movements of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Two agents are assigned to get information re the U.S.S.R. plans.

Crew

Name: Alan Caillou

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: John Peyser

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: James Best

Character: Webb

Department: Acting

Name: Myron Healey

Character: Lister

Department: Acting

Name: Olan Soule

Character: Hotchkiss

Department: Acting

Name: Gil Frye

Character: Selim

Department: Acting

Name: Francis De Sales

Character: Commander Rogers

Department: Acting

Name: Marya Stevens

Character: Rakya Ahmed

Department: Acting

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Episode: 10

A Cover of Art

Air Date:11/12/1958

Commander Matson enters Czechoslovakia disguised as an art dealer, part of a plan to get atomic scientist Andrew Fleming out of the country. Tension mounts as the time of Fleming's trial nears and Matson has to call upon a group of Czech resistance fighters for help.

Crew

Name: Boris Sagal

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: George Fass

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: Gertrude Fass

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Florence Marly

Character: Marie Savit

Department: Acting

Name: John Banner

Character: Prosecutor Hoxa

Department: Acting

Name: Ellis M. Zacharias

Character: Self (as Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias)

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Flato

Character: Serko

Department: Acting

Name: Keith Richards

Character: Andrew Fleming

Department: Acting

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Episode: 11

The Middle East Story

Air Date:18/12/1958

Jessica Tabor overhears a plot to assassinate King Hussein of Jordan and turns to secret agents James Foster and Harry Shaw to help forward information to Jordan and put the King out of danger.

Crew

Name: Fenton Earnshaw

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: John Peyser

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Richard Webb

Character: James Foster

Department: Acting

Name: Abraham Sofaer

Character: Fadhil

Department: Acting

Name: Ellis M. Zacharias

Character: Self (as Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias)

Department: Acting

Name: George Keymas

Character: Aman

Department: Acting

Name: Ziva Rodann

Character: Jessica Tabor

Department: Acting

Name: John Sutton

Character: Shaw

Department: Acting

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Episode: 12

The Brioni Story

Air Date:25/12/1958

This episode tells of an American secret operative (Sheldon Lawrence) who uncovers a plot to assassinate Marshal Tito and is warned to beware of a sculptress (Jeanette Strike.).

Crew

Name: Samuel Gallu

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Charles Bennett

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Eric Pohlmann

Character: Drigo

Department: Acting

Name: Glyn Owen

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Ferdy Mayne

Character: General Racz

Department: Acting

Name: Ellis M. Zacharias

Character: Self (as Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias)

Department: Acting

Name: Sheldon Lawrence

Character: Blake Adams

Department: Acting

Name: Carl Duering

Character: Rienk

Department: Acting

Name: Jeanette Sterke

Character: Sarah Fletcher

Department: Acting

Name: Carl Jaffe

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 13

The Obelisk

Air Date:01/01/1959

A British atomic scientist steals important papers and heads for the moors, where he is to meet a U.S.S.R. helicopter.

Crew

Name: Samuel Gallu

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Walter Gotell

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Edwin Richfield

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Ayres

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Caldicot

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Dermot Walsh

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 14

The Germany Story

Air Date:08/01/1959

A Dr. Haas has set himself up as head of German fencing society, whose youthful members he uses to further his own subversive plans. Peter Gebhardt joins in an attempt to learn of plans to establish a new regime.

Guest Stars

Name: Richard Jaeckel

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Corey Allen

Character:

Department: Directing

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Episode: 15

The Alkaloid Angle

Air Date:22/01/1959

During an investigation of a shipment of narcotics to a Mid East port, a U.S. agent is killed. Agent Robert Hatfield, called out of retirement to work on the case, learns that a traitor has revealed his identity to the Communists.

Guest Stars

Name: Harry Bartell

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 16

Crypto 40

Air Date:29/01/1959

Scientist David Sparrow, developer of a code machine, is captured and held behind the Iron Curtain. Realizing that Sparrow will be forced to make a similar machine for the U.S.S.R., Captain Early devises a rescue scheme.

Crew

Name: John English

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Werner Klemperer

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Osa Massen

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 17

The Alaskan Story

Air Date:05/02/1959

Attempting to break up a Communist spy ring in Alaska, Captain John Rand enters the penitentiary as a prisoner to become friendly with a Red agent, help him to escape in the hope that he will lead Rand to other members of the ring.

Guest Stars

Name: Brad Dexter

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Don Haggerty

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Milton Frome

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 18

The Quemoy Story

Air Date:12/02/1959

In Macao, Anna Sung, a U.S. agent, is kidnapped by the Reds. Searching for her, Commander Bennett and Mike Perrera, a local police detective, come across a plan to infiltrate and capture Quemoy Island.

Guest Stars

Name: Paul Picerni

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Ellenstein

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Robert H. Harris

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 19

The Espionage Students

Air Date:19/02/1959

Guest Stars

Name: Richard Alexander

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Nestor Paiva

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Dean Harens

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Liliane Montevecchi

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 20

The Geneva Story

Air Date:26/02/1959

A former Soviet official is released from prison to represent the U.S.S.R. at the Geneva arms conference. U.S. agent Nick Blake is assigned to learn why.

Guest Stars

Name: Gregory Gaye

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Dennis Patrick

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Wendell Holmes

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 21

The Meeting

Air Date:05/03/1959

U.S. spies learn that a new chief of the U.S.S.R. secret police has been appointed. Agent Ralph Drake goes to Austria to meet with Western agents from six Iron Curtain countries.

Crew

Name: Robert C. Dennis

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Ray Danton

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Warwick

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: David Opatoshu

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Booth Colman

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Virginia Gregg

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 22

Mightier Than the Sword

Air Date:12/03/1959

U.S. agent Douglas Kincaid joins the Communist Party and learns that Feodor Mashay, once a top Kremlin official, wants to defect. Kincaid is assigned to help Mashay escape.

Crew

Name: Robert Leslie Bellem

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: John Warburton

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 23

The Gamble

Air Date:19/03/1959

Crew

Name: Robert Leslie Bellem

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Jeff Richards

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 24

Double Agent

Air Date:26/03/1959

A British counterintelligence agent tries to track down a spy working for both East and West who is responsible for the shipment of arms to western sympathizers behind the Iron Curtain.

Guest Stars

Name: Liam Sullivan

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 25

The Antidote

Air Date:02/04/1959

Dr. Paul Matley, inventor of a radiation antidote and his wife Laura, are at a night club when Laura is poisoned by Communist agents. Matley is told that Laura will be saved only if he turns over the antidote.

Guest Stars

Name: John Lupton

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Barney Phillips

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Bull

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Lawrence Dobkin

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Nan Leslie

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 26

Assignment Prague

Air Date:09/04/1959

In Warsaw, an anti-Communist uprising has somehow gone unreported in the West. A U.S. agent posing as a former American film director recruited by the Commies to direct propaganda films in Poland, has, along with his crew, compiled a documentary film about the rebellion and is trying to smuggle it to the West where it can be shown at the U.N.