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Behind Closed Doors

All Episodes 1958 - 1959

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  • 1958-10-02T04:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 13h (26 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Screen Gems + 1 more, Jane Gallu Productions Inc.
  • Drama, War
Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander Matson. The series, which aired on NBC from October 2, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American missile secrets and proposes steps to prevent further espionage. Behind Closed Doors is based on the files and experiences of Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who offers comments at the end of each segment. Behind Closed Doors, a Screen Gems production, replaced Jackie Cooper's sitcom The People's Choice, followed the NBC quiz show, Twenty-One, and preceded the The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Its competition was The Pat Boone Chevy Show on ABC and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater western anthology series on CBS.

26 episodes

Series Premiere

1958-10-02T04:00:00Z

1x01 The Cape Canaveral Story

Series Premiere

1x01 The Cape Canaveral Story

  • 1958-10-02T04:00:00Z30m

Wayne Hollister, a Florida fisherman, is approached by a Mr. Meyers who rents his boat for one day and demands to be taken to the waters off Cape Canaveral, not to fish, but to watch a rocket launching.

1958-10-09T04:00:00Z

1x02 Flight to Freedom

1x02 Flight to Freedom

  • 1958-10-09T04:00:00Z30m

Brauer, a German scientist is held prisoner by the communists. The German scientist, forced to serve Russia’s guided missile program, attempts an escape when he sees his associate turned into a "human vegetable" by brain surgery.

1958-10-16T04:00:00Z

1x03 Double Jeopardy

1x03 Double Jeopardy

  • 1958-10-16T04:00:00Z30m

British and U.S. intelligence agents learn that the Soviet ambassador to the U.N. is scheduled to arrive in London and divulge the Russian's new tactics to the Russian embassy there. The Allies try to plant a recording device in the embassy and ask a staid Britisher to help them.

1958-10-23T04:00:00Z

1x04 Mig 9

1x04 Mig 9

  • 1958-10-23T04:00:00Z30m

Lt. Tarkhanov, a Russian test pilot, sent to Germany on secret mission is hampered by Russian agents. The Russian Air Force lieutenant who wants to defect to the West, arranges to fly out the latest Rusian Mig jet to an American Air Force base in Germany.

1958-10-30T05:00:00Z

1x05 Trouble in Test Cell 19

1x05 Trouble in Test Cell 19

  • 1958-10-30T05:00:00Z30m

A new jet engine that is being tested for its suitability for mass production blows up on the final test. Exam of the wreckage shows evidence of sabotage. U.S. Intelligence agents try to find the sabateur.

1958-11-06T05:00:00Z

1x06 Man in the Moon

1x06 Man in the Moon

  • 1958-11-06T05:00:00Z30m

Clara Koller, a widow, has the important job of handling the budget of a manufacturing company engaged in a secret government project. When she is asked to join a friendship club she accepts, unaware that the club is a front for enemy agents.

1958-11-13T05:00:00Z

1x07 The Nike Story

1x07 The Nike Story

  • 1958-11-13T05:00:00Z30m

Captain John Benson is sent to investigate when a fellow officer is murdered trying to trap an enemy agent on a missile base. Benson arranges to hold open house at the base in an attempt to capture the entire ring of agents at the base.

1x08 It Was Learned on High Authority

  • 1958-11-27T05:00:00Z30m

Fred Lang, an enemy agent, works as an engineer on a missile base in Los Angeles. He learns that a group of scientists is scheduled to fly to Cape Canaveral and is ordered to place a bomb on the plane.

1958-12-04T05:00:00Z

1x09 The Enemy on the Flank

1x09 The Enemy on the Flank

  • 1958-12-04T05:00:00Z30m

U.S. Intelligence men learn that a U.S.S.R. sub operating from a base in Albania plan to interfere with movements of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Two agents are assigned to get information re the U.S.S.R. plans.

1958-12-11T05:00:00Z

1x10 A Cover of Art

1x10 A Cover of Art

  • 1958-12-11T05:00:00Z30m

Commander Matson enters Czechoslovakia disguised as an art dealer, part of a plan to get atomic scientist Andrew Fleming out of the country. Tension mounts as the time of Fleming's trial nears and Matson has to call upon a group of Czech resistance fighters for help.

1958-12-18T05:00:00Z

1x11 The Middle East Story

1x11 The Middle East Story

  • 1958-12-18T05:00:00Z30m

Jessica Tabor overhears a plot to assassinate King Hussein of Jordan and turns to secret agents James Foster and Harry Shaw to help forward information to Jordan and put the King out of danger.

1958-12-25T05:00:00Z

1x12 The Brioni Story

1x12 The Brioni Story

  • 1958-12-25T05:00:00Z30m

This episode tells of an American secret operative (Sheldon Lawrence) who uncovers a plot to assassinate Marshal Tito and is warned to beware of a sculptress (Jeanette Strike.).

1959-01-01T05:00:00Z

1x13 The Obelisk

1x13 The Obelisk

  • 1959-01-01T05:00:00Z30m

A British atomic scientist steals important papers and heads for the moors, where he is to meet a U.S.S.R. helicopter.

1959-01-08T05:00:00Z

1x14 The Germany Story

1x14 The Germany Story

  • 1959-01-08T05:00:00Z30m

A Dr. Haas has set himself up as head of German fencing society, whose youthful members he uses to further his own subversive plans. Peter Gebhardt joins in an attempt to learn of plans to establish a new regime.

1959-01-22T05:00:00Z

1x15 The Alkaloid Angle

1x15 The Alkaloid Angle

  • 1959-01-22T05:00:00Z30m

During an investigation of a shipment of narcotics to a Mid East port, a U.S. agent is killed. Agent Robert Hatfield, called out of retirement to work on the case, learns that a traitor has revealed his identity to the Communists.

1959-01-29T05:00:00Z

1x16 Crypto 40

1x16 Crypto 40

  • 1959-01-29T05:00:00Z30m

Scientist David Sparrow, developer of a code machine, is captured and held behind the Iron Curtain. Realizing that Sparrow will be forced to make a similar machine for the U.S.S.R., Captain Early devises a rescue scheme.

1959-02-05T05:00:00Z

1x17 The Alaskan Story

1x17 The Alaskan Story

  • 1959-02-05T05:00:00Z30m

Attempting to break up a Communist spy ring in Alaska, Captain John Rand enters the penitentiary as a prisoner to become friendly with a Red agent, help him to escape in the hope that he will lead Rand to other members of the ring.

1959-02-12T05:00:00Z

1x18 The Quemoy Story

1x18 The Quemoy Story

  • 1959-02-12T05:00:00Z30m

In Macao, Anna Sung, a U.S. agent, is kidnapped by the Reds. Searching for her, Commander Bennett and Mike Perrera, a local police detective, come across a plan to infiltrate and capture Quemoy Island.

1959-02-19T05:00:00Z

1x19 The Espionage Students

1x19 The Espionage Students

  • 1959-02-19T05:00:00Z30m

1959-02-26T05:00:00Z

1x20 The Geneva Story

1x20 The Geneva Story

  • 1959-02-26T05:00:00Z30m

A former Soviet official is released from prison to represent the U.S.S.R. at the Geneva arms conference. U.S. agent Nick Blake is assigned to learn why.

1959-03-05T05:00:00Z

1x21 The Meeting

1x21 The Meeting

  • 1959-03-05T05:00:00Z30m

U.S. spies learn that a new chief of the U.S.S.R. secret police has been appointed. Agent Ralph Drake goes to Austria to meet with Western agents from six Iron Curtain countries.

1959-03-12T05:00:00Z

1x22 Mightier Than the Sword

1x22 Mightier Than the Sword

  • 1959-03-12T05:00:00Z30m

U.S. agent Douglas Kincaid joins the Communist Party and learns that Feodor Mashay, once a top Kremlin official, wants to defect. Kincaid is assigned to help Mashay escape.

1959-03-19T05:00:00Z

1x23 The Gamble

1x23 The Gamble

  • 1959-03-19T05:00:00Z30m

1959-03-26T05:00:00Z

1x24 Double Agent

1x24 Double Agent

  • 1959-03-26T05:00:00Z30m

A British counterintelligence agent tries to track down a spy working for both East and West who is responsible for the shipment of arms to western sympathizers behind the Iron Curtain.

1959-04-02T05:00:00Z

1x25 The Antidote

1x25 The Antidote

  • 1959-04-02T05:00:00Z30m

Dr. Paul Matley, inventor of a radiation antidote and his wife Laura, are at a night club when Laura is poisoned by Communist agents. Matley is told that Laura will be saved only if he turns over the antidote.

Season Finale

1959-04-09T05:00:00Z

1x26 Assignment Prague

Season Finale

1x26 Assignment Prague

  • 1959-04-09T05:00:00Z30m

In Warsaw, an anti-Communist uprising has somehow gone unreported in the West. A U.S. agent posing as a former American film director recruited by the Commies to direct propaganda films in Poland, has, along with his crew, compiled a documentary film about the rebellion and is trying to smuggle it to the West where it can be shown at the U.N.

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