
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.
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Air Date: 1958-10-02
Wayne Hollister, a Florida fisherman, is approached by a Mr. Meyers who rents his boat for one day and demands to be ...
Air Date: 1958-10-09
Brauer, a German scientist is held prisoner by the communists. The German scientist, forced to serve Russia’s guided ...
Air Date: 1958-10-16
British and U.S. intelligence agents learn that the Soviet ambassador to the U.N. is scheduled to arrive in London an...
Air Date: 1958-10-23
Lt. Tarkhanov, a Russian test pilot, sent to Germany on secret mission is hampered by Russian agents. The Russian Air...
Air Date: 1958-10-30
A new jet engine that is being tested for its suitability for mass production blows up on the final test. Exam of the...
Air Date: 1958-11-06
Clara Koller, a widow, has the important job of handling the budget of a manufacturing company engaged in a secret go...
Air Date: 1958-11-13
Captain John Benson is sent to investigate when a fellow officer is murdered trying to trap an enemy agent on a missi...
Air Date: 1958-11-27
Fred Lang, an enemy agent, works as an engineer on a missile base in Los Angeles. He learns that a group of scientist...
Air Date: 1958-12-04
U.S. Intelligence men learn that a U.S.S.R. sub operating from a base in Albania plan to interfere with movements of ...
Air Date: 1958-12-11
Commander Matson enters Czechoslovakia disguised as an art dealer, part of a plan to get atomic scientist Andrew Flem...
Air Date: 1958-12-18
Jessica Tabor overhears a plot to assassinate King Hussein of Jordan and turns to secret agents James Foster and Harr...
Air Date: 1958-12-25
This episode tells of an American secret operative (Sheldon Lawrence) who uncovers a plot to assassinate Marshal Tito...
Air Date: 1959-01-01
A British atomic scientist steals important papers and heads for the moors, where he is to meet a U.S.S.R. helicopter.
Air Date: 1959-01-08
A Dr. Haas has set himself up as head of German fencing society, whose youthful members he uses to further his own su...
Air Date: 1959-01-22
During an investigation of a shipment of narcotics to a Mid East port, a U.S. agent is killed. Agent Robert Hatfield,...
Air Date: 1959-01-29
Scientist David Sparrow, developer of a code machine, is captured and held behind the Iron Curtain. Realizing that Sp...
Air Date: 1959-02-05
Attempting to break up a Communist spy ring in Alaska, Captain John Rand enters the penitentiary as a prisoner to bec...
Air Date: 1959-02-12
In Macao, Anna Sung, a U.S. agent, is kidnapped by the Reds. Searching for her, Commander Bennett and Mike Perrera, a...
Air Date: 1959-02-19
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Air Date: 1959-02-26
A former Soviet official is released from prison to represent the U.S.S.R. at the Geneva arms conference. U.S. agent ...
Air Date: 1959-03-05
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...
Air Date: 1959-03-12
U.S. agent Douglas Kincaid joins the Communist Party and learns that Feodor Mashay, once a top Kremlin official, want...
Air Date: 1959-03-19
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Air Date: 1959-03-26
A British counterintelligence agent tries to track down a spy working for both East and West who is responsible for t...
Air Date: 1959-04-02
Dr. Paul Matley, inventor of a radiation antidote and his wife Laura, are at a night club when Laura is poisoned by C...
Air Date: 1959-04-09
In Warsaw, an anti-Communist uprising has somehow gone unreported in the West. A U.S. agent posing as a former Americ...