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television series, starring
Bernard Archard, which ran from 1959 to 1961. It was based on the real-life activities of Dutch counterintelligence officer, Lieutenant-Colonel
Oreste Pinto Oreste Pinto (9 October 1889 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands – 18 September 1961 in London, England) was a Dutch counterintelligence officer and Lieutenant-Colonel. His activities during the Second World War, in which he worked with MI5 interrogatin ...
(once called "the greatest living authority on security"),
who specialised in the interrogation of suspected spies during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
and had later published his memoirs under the title ''Spy Catcher''. Each episode showed Pinto (Archard) questioning refugees to England from
Nazi
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...
-dominated Europe, and eventually exposing them as enemy agents (or, on two occasions, concluding that they were genuine refugees).
In 1960 a board game called ''Spycatcher'' inspired by the series was produced by
J & L Randall under their Merit trading name.
There was also an earlier BBC Radio series, of 24 episodes, which covered the same cases in radio-drama form.
Unusual for BBC programming of the 1950s and early 60s, the series is thought to still exist, but has yet to be released publicly.
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1950s British drama television series
1959 British television series debuts
1960s British drama television series
1961 British television series endings
BBC television dramas
Espionage television series
Television shows set in England
World War II television drama series
British spy television series
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