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  • 1968-03-27T23:00:00Z on ITV
  • 1h
  • 13h (13 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Action, Adventure, Drama
Set in the 1900s, when the British Secret Service was a new, unofficial arm of military activity, the series features Captain Robert Virgin - an officer and a gentleman who fights as a man of honour. Armed only with intelligence, ingenuity, physical strength and abundant charm, Virgin faces every sort of peril as he defends King and country - from industrial espionage to anarchist bomb plots, assassination attempts to kidnapping.

13 episodes

Series Premiere

1968-03-27T23:00:00Z

1x01 Dark Deeds on the Northwest Frontier

Series Premiere

1x01 Dark Deeds on the Northwest Frontier

  • 1968-03-27T23:00:00Z1h

A professor is abducted while hunting butterflies on the Afghan border.

1968-04-03T23:00:00Z

1x02 Russian Roundabout

1x02 Russian Roundabout

  • 1968-04-03T23:00:00Z1h

A Russian masterplan to bring down the British Empire is hidden in the St Petersburg palace of Prince Rouvaloff.

1968-04-10T23:00:00Z

1x03 Entente Cordiale

1x03 Entente Cordiale

  • 1968-04-10T23:00:00Z1h

Doublett and Mrs Cortez impersonate the Duke and Dutchess of Albany when Entente Cordiale is threatened by von Brauner's attempts to have the Duke killed and throw suspicion on the French.

1968-04-17T23:00:00Z

1x04 The Great Ring of Akba

1x04 The Great Ring of Akba

  • 1968-04-17T23:00:00Z1h

Virgin is tasked with escorting a princess back to Akba. But, von Brauner plans to capture the princess and deliver her to Akba's murderous new ruler.

1968-04-24T23:00:00Z

1x05 The Amazons

1x05 The Amazons

  • 1968-04-24T23:00:00Z1h

Virgin and Doublett have a desperate mission to Brazil thrust upon them when Colonel Shaw-Camberley learns that a vital rubber plantation is not being worked, and that the company manager's daughters are in dire danger.

1x06 The Rajah and the Suffragette

  • 1968-05-01T23:00:00Z1h

Virgin and Doublett uncover a plot to stir the Indian princes against the British Raj, masterminded by von Brauner.

1x07 Persuasion of a Million Drops

  • 1968-05-08T23:00:00Z1h

A Swiss professor develops a paralysing gas, and von Brauner is quick to see the possibilities if he can obtain the secret for himself and his ally Generalissimo Chu Chen Yu.

1968-05-15T23:00:00Z

1x08 Pride of Assassins

1x08 Pride of Assassins

  • 1968-05-15T23:00:00Z1h

Von Brauner has been ordered to arrange the assassination of the King of Croatia.

An ancient prophesy tells of a white warrior who will cross the Silver Pass and claim the immortal Shang Li as his bride. Von Brauner plans to make himself the warrior, thus wrecking a proposed trade treaty; but Virgin has a trump card.

1968-05-29T23:00:00Z

1x10 The Pyramid Plot

1x10 The Pyramid Plot

  • 1968-05-29T23:00:00Z1h

As the Colonel arrives in Egypt to investigate the disappearance of no fewer than seven British officers, he narrowly escapes becoming the eighth. Can Virgin's timely arrival help save the Colonel's life as well as thwarting a plot to seize the Suez Canal?

1968-06-05T23:00:00Z

1x11 A Fate Worse Than Death

1x11 A Fate Worse Than Death

  • 1968-06-05T23:00:00Z1h

When Virgin is faced with a plot to assassinate the King and seize the Crown Jewels, he finds that he will have to work with von Brauner during the occasion of the state visit of the Kaiser.

1968-06-12T23:00:00Z

1x12 The Professor Goes West

1x12 The Professor Goes West

  • 1968-06-12T23:00:00Z1h

When an Englishman in America invents a magnometer - a device that locates oil - he is kidnapped by von Brauner and would-be oil tycoon Big Jack.

1968-06-19T23:00:00Z

1x13 Wings Over Glencraig

1x13 Wings Over Glencraig

  • 1968-06-19T23:00:00Z1h

At a time when the world is waiting for man to be airborne, it is rumoured that the Laird of Glencraig has invented a flying machine. Men of all nations want the secret - among them the wily von Brauner...

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