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Ghost Squad

Season 2 1962 - 1963

  • 1963-01-19T20:30:00Z on Associated Television
  • 1h
  • 1d 2h (26 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Crime, Drama
This series depicted the adventures of the secret crime unit of Scotland Yard, known as "The Ghost Squad," based on the real-life International Investigation Division of Scotland Yard. The series (39 episodes airing from 1961 to 1964) starred Donald Wolfit (pictured with Angela Browne) as Sir Andrew Wilson, the squad's chief, and Michael Quinn as undercover agent Nick Craig. In 1964, the series was renamed "G.S.5" for 13 episodes and featured a new agent Peter Clarke (played by Ray Barrett), who was assisted by Tony Miller, an agent from the earlier series played by Neil Hallett.

26 episodes

Season Premiere

1963-01-19T20:30:00Z

2x01 The Big Time

Season Premiere

2x01 The Big Time

  • 1963-01-19T20:30:00Z1h

A small time crook steals a bag of diamonds being used as bait to trap a smuggling ring that the Ghost Squad had planted, now they and the smugglers are after him.

1963-01-26T20:30:00Z

2x02 Death of a Sportsman

2x02 Death of a Sportsman

  • 1963-01-26T20:30:00Z1h

In Egypt, Miller insists he's just seen a famous British sportsman in passing at his hotel- the problem is, the chap's been dead and buried for a week. He insists on investigating and uncovers a connection with a smuggling ring.

1962-11-29T20:30:00Z

2x03 Interrupted Requiem

2x03 Interrupted Requiem

  • 1962-11-29T20:30:00Z1h

A scientist refuses to do further work on a British rocket system after he gets a glimpse of his supposedly dead daughter. Craig is sent undercover to a hostile country under cover as toy maker at a trade show to locate her.

1962-12-06T20:30:00Z

2x04 East of Mandalay

2x04 East of Mandalay

  • 1962-12-06T20:30:00Z1h

Miller is sent to investigate a British mining corporation in a jungle-choked, revolution-infested far eastern country. After attempts on his life, it's determined that the whole operation is only a cover for international arms smugglers.

1963-02-16T20:30:00Z

2x05 Escape Route

2x05 Escape Route

  • 1963-02-16T20:30:00Z1h

Craig poses as an embezzler on the run to infiltrate a criminal network that's supposed to make clients "disappear" into a new identity far away from the authorities that are after them.

1963-02-23T20:30:00Z

2x06 The Last Jump

2x06 The Last Jump

  • 1963-02-23T20:30:00Z1h

Miller and Stock join a parachute regiment where someone is killing paras and using its West Germany jumps to pass equipment to East Germany. Miller calls Carter: "Porridge" 3 times

1963-03-02T20:30:00Z

2x07 Polsky

2x07 Polsky

  • 1963-03-02T20:30:00Z1h

Miller assumes the identity of a Polish expatriate and small time crook to infiltrate cell of a politically motivated international crime syndicate working out of a run-down London garage.

1963-03-09T20:30:00Z

2x08 The Heir Apparent

2x08 The Heir Apparent

  • 1963-03-09T20:30:00Z1h

Threats to an Arab oil sheik's son are monitored while he's a student at an eccentric English public school by Craig, now under cover as the school's sports instructor.

1963-03-16T20:30:00Z

2x09 The Magic Bullet

2x09 The Magic Bullet

  • 1963-03-16T20:30:00Z1h

The car brake pipes of a scientist working on nuclear weapon research are cut, resulting in his death. Craig becomes a scientist and with help from Jean Carter tries to find the person responsible.

1963-03-09T20:30:00Z

2x10 The Menacing Mazurka

2x10 The Menacing Mazurka

  • 1963-03-09T20:30:00Z1h

In the guise of a publicity agent, Miller must deal with a Russian dance troupe in London for a cultural exchange, but are rife with Soviet spies. He must decide if a dancer's efforts to defect are legitimate.

A man at a country old folks home is murdered just as he was about to unmask a double agent from World War Two. Stock goes undercover as a new resident of the home to follow the lead.

1963-03-16T20:30:00Z

2x12 Mr. Five Percent

2x12 Mr. Five Percent

  • 1963-03-16T20:30:00Z1h

A shady minor crook is persuaded to assist Miller in uncovering an international drug and arms smuggler's operations in Rome, where a shipment of high-powered rifles are destined for some revolutionaries in southeast Asia.

1963-03-23T20:30:00Z

2x13 Gertrude

2x13 Gertrude

  • 1963-03-23T20:30:00Z1h

Craig struggles in a comedy of errors to take a female spy and her plans of a Middle East anti-British uprising to England. However Gertrude (Mary MacKenzie) is self-centred, untrustworthy and nothing but trouble to all around her as Atarah agents and the police close in

1963-03-30T20:30:00Z

2x14 Sabotage

2x14 Sabotage

  • 1963-03-30T20:30:00Z1h

Miller takes the place of a Dutch saboteur out to blow up a port installation in the Fillemore Islands, which are about to gain independence from Britain.

1963-04-27T19:30:00Z

2x15 The Thirteenth Girl

2x15 The Thirteenth Girl

  • 1963-04-27T19:30:00Z1h

A Swiss agent convinces the squad to investigate an apparently legitimate high class Au Pair agency, who's girls seem to vanish when they start work in England. Sally is sent undercover to infiltrate the agency, and finds drugs, prostitution and murders in the offing.

1963-05-04T19:30:00Z

2x16 Sentences of Death

2x16 Sentences of Death

  • 1963-05-04T19:30:00Z1h

Craig is drugged in a pub, taken to a mysterious doctor's surgery that he can barely remember later. The Surgery was actually a caravan and the "Doctor" used a truth drug to extract top secret information that he now plans to blackmail the squad with.

1963-05-11T19:30:00Z

2x17 The Grand Duchess

2x17 The Grand Duchess

  • 1963-05-11T19:30:00Z1h

A forgery of an important Spanish painting is stolen from a gallery by unwitting thieves who replace it with another, but the real artwork has been taken by an aging ex-nobleman.

1963-05-18T19:30:00Z

2x18 The Desperate Diplomat

2x18 The Desperate Diplomat

  • 1963-05-18T19:30:00Z1h

Craig and Geoffrey Stock investigate with the help of a safe-cracker (Tom Bowman) when the wife of a diplomat is not just a user but is also smuggling heroin into the country

1963-05-25T19:30:00Z

2x19 Hot Money

2x19 Hot Money

  • 1963-05-25T19:30:00Z1h

An old Italian forger has been blackmailed by master criminals into helping them counterfeit thousands of pound notes that have been officially written off as destroyed in a fire.

1963-06-01T19:30:00Z

2x20 Quarantine at Kavar

2x20 Quarantine at Kavar

  • 1963-06-01T19:30:00Z1h

Valuable thorium is believed to have been found in a small desert kingdom. Craig helped by Jean Carter is thwarted at every step by the Emir who wants to keep his kingdom isolated to protect his power.

1963-06-08T19:30:00Z

2x21 The Golden Silence

2x21 The Golden Silence

  • 1963-06-08T19:30:00Z1h

A gold smuggling ring is using a travel agency as a front. Miller goes under cover to join the gang and discover how they sneak it into the country.

1963-06-15T19:30:00Z

2x22 Lost in Transit

2x22 Lost in Transit

  • 1963-06-15T19:30:00Z1h

An agent is murdered at a London airport, but it turns out that he's an impostor. The real agent has infiltrated a secret neo-Nazi organization that is planning a terror attack.

2x23 The Man With the Delicate Hands

  • 1963-06-22T19:30:00Z1h

A man is burned to death in an apparent car accident but his sister knows it is not the man claimed because the body does not have delicate hands. Her brother is being tortured nearby to get information that can be used on Insider trading to make money on planned currency devaluations. Boss Henry Dickinson (Basil Dignam) sends Miller on the case.

1963-04-13T19:30:00Z

2x24 The Missing People

2x24 The Missing People

  • 1963-04-13T19:30:00Z1h

An underground smuggling network promises people behind the iron curtain a chance to escape to England-at a high price. Trouble is, they're disappearing instead. Miller becomes a pilot to infiltrate the gang.

1963-05-04T19:30:00Z

2x25 PG7

2x25 PG7

  • 1963-05-04T19:30:00Z1h

A top secret gas has been stolen from a government laboratory by a pacifist scientist. He works with an American crook who is trying to sell it to a foreign revolutionary. Craig finds that instead of being a harmless gas that temporarily paralyzes, it's quite lethal.

1962-12-09T20:30:00Z

2x26 A First Class Way to Die

2x26 A First Class Way to Die

  • 1962-12-09T20:30:00Z1h

On a luxury cruise, a scientist and his daughter, refugees from the iron curtain. Murder, stowaways and disguised identities complicate things for Craig, who's assignment is to protect them.

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