Spycatcher (TV Series)

Spycatcher (TV Series)

"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"), [cite journal|date=1952-09-01|title=With My Little Eye|journal=TIME|publisher=Time Warner|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,816924,00.html|accessdate=2008-05-06] 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).

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