Season 1
12 episodes · Jan 17, 1969
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- S1E1
Delayed Action
Jan 17, 1969Fulton Mackay guest stars as the survivor of an accidental RAF bombing that has wiped out his family.
- S1E3
Crosscheck
Jan 31, 196960mMichael Barnett is a spy whom the Department wants Austen to vet positively, despite every fact about him being easily verified lies.
- S1E5
Discord
Feb 14, 196960mRenowned concert pianist Robert Flemyng returns home after spending 18 months in a Russian prison camp. Concerned about how the harrowing experience might have changed him, his wife, Lisa Daniely, turns to Austen for help in understanding what kind of man her husband has become.
- S1E7
Lady in the Bath
Feb 28, 196960mRachel Marlow, a rich and glamorous film director, is found dead in her bath with her wrists slashed. It looks as if she has finally said her own goodbye to a world that had become too fast. But when Dr. Austen starts to reconstruct her life and background from the memories of the people who knew her, he finds he is engaged in a quest much more deadly and sinister than that of a beautiful suicide.
- S1E8
An East-West Affair
Mar 7, 196960m"Are you repelled by the sight of a middle-aged woman in love with a man years younger? Some people are." When a young Eastern attaché takes a more than friendly interest in a high-ranking but mature lady member of the British diplomatic staff, Dawnay's department is alarmed—especially as her briefcase contains classified information. In a background of Civil Service intrigue and vicious gossip-mongering, Dr. James Austen tries to restore some sanity in an attempt to stop the Juggernaut of the Establishment from crushing the private lives of ordinary people.
- S1E9
The Spy Vanishes
Mar 14, 196960mWhen Dr. James Austen interviews convicted spy Josef Borozhek at the start of a 40-year sentence in maximum security, the prospect looks ugly indeed--especially when Borozhek becomes the victim of savage attacks from his cell-mates. But when his tormentors try to strike a bargain, Borozhek becomes a key figure in an even more frightening chase to the death.
- S1E10
A Day of Angels
Mar 21, 196960mWhen a fear-crazed man, without past, present, or future. is picked up in Berlin, and refuses to talk, Dr. Austen is thrown into the highly-charged world of East-West tension. He is faced with the problem of making the victim talk before the Department resorts to more brutal forms of persuasion.
- S1E11
The Case of the Abandoned Wife
Mar 28, 196960mWhen a fear-crazed man, without past, present or future. is picked up in Berlin, and refuses to talk, Dr. Austen is thrown into the highly-charged world of East-West tension. He is faced with the problem of making the victim talk before the Department resorts to more brutal forms of persuasion.
- S1E12
Revenge for a Visitor
Apr 4, 196960m"Leave me alone! I don't want you near me! You've been watching, listening, all these months. You're just another spy." In the last of the current series. James Austen finds himself caught up in the strange case of a Polish girl living in London who appears to have become terrified by sudden explosions of family hatred. For Austen, the frightened Irena is strictly a private patient, but for Dawnay, she is the beginning of a trail which leads him to a deadly plot of political revenge.