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O.S.S. (1957)

O.S.S. poster
Directed by
Peter Maxwell
Genre
adventure television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 26 episodes
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A television series from the 1950s about an American spy named Frank Hawthorne. He works for the O.S.S. and carries out missions behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France during World War Two.

suspensefulgrittytenseserioushistoricspywartime

What happens

O.S.S. is a wartime television drama series that was co-produced by Buckeye Productions and ATV. It ran for 26 half-hour monochrome episodes during the 1957–1958 season and was distributed by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by ABC. The series followed the adventures of Frank Hawthorne, an agent with the American Office of Strategic Services, who operated behind Nazi lines in occupied France. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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