TV series

Spycatcher

1959–1961, English, on BBC Television.

Based on the real-life activities of Dutch counterintelligence officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Oreste Pinto, 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 questioning refugees to England from Nazi-dominated Europe, and eventually exposing them as enemy agents.

Seasons

4

Episodes

24

Episode length

15 min

Status

Ended in 1961