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Behind Closed Doors(1958)

War & PoliticsDrama
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First Air Date: 1958-10-02
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 8.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 26

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.

Keywords

cold waranthologymilitary

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 26
E01
The Cape Canaveral Story

Air Date: 1958-10-02

30m

Wayne Hollister, a Florida fisherman, is approached by a Mr. Meyers who rents his boat for one day and demands to be ...

E02
Flight to Freedom

Air Date: 1958-10-09

30m

Brauer, a German scientist is held prisoner by the communists. The German scientist, forced to serve Russia’s guided ...

E03
Double Jeopardy

Air Date: 1958-10-16

30m

British and U.S. intelligence agents learn that the Soviet ambassador to the U.N. is scheduled to arrive in London an...

E04
Mig 9

Air Date: 1958-10-23

30m

Lt. Tarkhanov, a Russian test pilot, sent to Germany on secret mission is hampered by Russian agents. The Russian Air...

E05
Trouble in Test Cell 19

Air Date: 1958-10-30

30m

A new jet engine that is being tested for its suitability for mass production blows up on the final test. Exam of the...

E06
Man in the Moon

Air Date: 1958-11-06

30m

Clara Koller, a widow, has the important job of handling the budget of a manufacturing company engaged in a secret go...

E07
The Nike Story

Air Date: 1958-11-13

30m

Captain John Benson is sent to investigate when a fellow officer is murdered trying to trap an enemy agent on a missi...

E08
It Was Learned on High Authority

Air Date: 1958-11-27

30m

Fred Lang, an enemy agent, works as an engineer on a missile base in Los Angeles. He learns that a group of scientist...

E09
The Enemy on the Flank

Air Date: 1958-12-04

30m

U.S. Intelligence men learn that a U.S.S.R. sub operating from a base in Albania plan to interfere with movements of ...

E10
A Cover of Art

Air Date: 1958-12-11

30m

Commander Matson enters Czechoslovakia disguised as an art dealer, part of a plan to get atomic scientist Andrew Flem...

E11
The Middle East Story

Air Date: 1958-12-18

30m

Jessica Tabor overhears a plot to assassinate King Hussein of Jordan and turns to secret agents James Foster and Harr...

E12
The Brioni Story

Air Date: 1958-12-25

30m

This episode tells of an American secret operative (Sheldon Lawrence) who uncovers a plot to assassinate Marshal Tito...

E13
The Obelisk

Air Date: 1959-01-01

30m

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

E14
The Germany Story

Air Date: 1959-01-08

30m

A Dr. Haas has set himself up as head of German fencing society, whose youthful members he uses to further his own su...

E15
The Alkaloid Angle

Air Date: 1959-01-22

30m

During an investigation of a shipment of narcotics to a Mid East port, a U.S. agent is killed. Agent Robert Hatfield,...

E16
Crypto 40

Air Date: 1959-01-29

30m

Scientist David Sparrow, developer of a code machine, is captured and held behind the Iron Curtain. Realizing that Sp...

E17
The Alaskan Story

Air Date: 1959-02-05

30m

Attempting to break up a Communist spy ring in Alaska, Captain John Rand enters the penitentiary as a prisoner to bec...

E18
The Quemoy Story

Air Date: 1959-02-12

30m

In Macao, Anna Sung, a U.S. agent, is kidnapped by the Reds. Searching for her, Commander Bennett and Mike Perrera, a...

E19
The Espionage Students

Air Date: 1959-02-19

30m

No episode overview available.

E20
The Geneva Story

Air Date: 1959-02-26

30m

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

E21
The Meeting

Air Date: 1959-03-05

30m

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...

E22
Mightier Than the Sword

Air Date: 1959-03-12

30m

U.S. agent Douglas Kincaid joins the Communist Party and learns that Feodor Mashay, once a top Kremlin official, want...

E23
The Gamble

Air Date: 1959-03-19

30m

No episode overview available.

E24
Double Agent

Air Date: 1959-03-26

30m

A British counterintelligence agent tries to track down a spy working for both East and West who is responsible for t...

E25
The Antidote

Air Date: 1959-04-02

30m

Dr. Paul Matley, inventor of a radiation antidote and his wife Laura, are at a night club when Laura is poisoned by C...

E26
Assignment Prague

Air Date: 1959-04-09

30m

In Warsaw, an anti-Communist uprising has somehow gone unreported in the West. A U.S. agent posing as a former Americ...

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Top Cast

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