Underplayed Gems

Spycatcher (1959)

Spycatcher poster
Genre
drama television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
4 seasons, 26 episodes
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A Dutch counterintelligence officer interrogates refugees from Nazi occupied Europe during World War II. Each episode follows his questioning of a suspect, usually exposing them as a spy.

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What happens

Spycatcher was a BBC 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 (once called "the greatest living authority on security"), who specialised in the interrogation of suspected spies during World War II and had later published his memoirs under the title Spy Catcher. Each episode showed Pinto (Archard) questioning refugees to England from Nazi-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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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