''Overseas Press Club – Exclusive!'' is a British adventure

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which first aired on

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in 1957. Each episode featured a different story based on a purportedly real case involving foreign correspondents of the Overseas Press Club. It was shot at ABPC's Elstree Studios. Actors who appeared on the show included Ralph Bellamy, Phyllis Calvert,

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, Nicole Maurey, Claude Dauphin, Kieron Moore, Eric Pohlmann, John Laurie, Leonard Sachs, Ferdy Mayne, Stratford Johns,

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, Peter Wyngarde,

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, André Morell,

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, Alan Tilvern, Austin Trevor, Nigel Stock and

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