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Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!

1957
1 season
13 episodes

The series adapted for television some true tales from press correspondents from around the world.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Man Who Changed Faces

    15-06-1957

    Jim Bishop tells how, during World War Two, a Norwiegian underground fighter switched places with a Nazi officer with the aid of plastic surgery.

  • Ep 2

    2.The General's War with Scotland

    22-06-1957

    Maurice Dekobra tells the story from the 1930s, where a Chinese warlord is wooed by a stern Scottish missionary, in order to save the lives of a number of children.

  • Ep 3

    3.The Monk of Chimay

    29-06-1957

    As told by Frank Jerome Riley, he goes in search of his hero, WW1 air ace, Rene Fonck, who has drop out of public life. He meets an ex RAF Spitfire pilot, who was shot down in WWII...

  • Ep 4

    4.Father Tiger

    06-07-1957

    Frederic Sondern tells of Father Maggiore of Naples, who removes his robes to became a member of a dangerous street gang. The priest wins the boys over, providing the means to scho...

  • Ep 5

    5.My Favourite Kidnapper

    13-07-1957

    Having arrived in Munich ahead of the liberation army, a US airman joins forces with the local resistance to dupe Bavarian Nazis into surrender.

  • Ep 6

    6.The Billion Franc Mystery

    20-07-1957

    In Paris 1938, an American journalist is warned of a plot to devalue the French economy by printing duplicate banknotes, but there is more to this story than at first appears.

  • Ep 7

    7.Santa Claus in a Jeep

    27-07-1957

    Ralph Bellamy plays a UN officer determined to help peasants in the Greek countryside with relief aid after the war.But a partisan leader, who once fought the Nazis, now controls t...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Millionth Frenchman

    03-08-1957

    A public relations scheme to honour the millionth repatriated French soldier from Prisoner of War camps runs into some comedic snags when the man selected won't go without his unsa...

  • Ep 9

    9.The George Polk Story

    10-08-1957

    A lady reporter covers the murder of CBS newsman during the 1947 Greek civil war, but she's unexpectedly accused of complicity in it.

  • Ep 10

    10.The Littlest Sergeant

    17-08-1957

    A comic story of how a Polish orphan boy is adopted by an American sergeant while fighting in Germany. After the war, the boy must stay behind until he's processed, but in the mean...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Unknown Man

    24-08-1957

    Stevadores unloading a ship in London discover a weak stowaway suffering from lack of food and water, but the captain of the communist Polish ship has him hauled away. The free Pol...

  • Ep 12

    12.Tatiana, the Czar's Daughter

    31-08-1957

    An American reporter relates how the Czar's daughter, who escaped her family's murder, now incognito as a nurse, is sought by soviet agents who would prevent her from collecting a...

  • Ep 13

    13.Two Against the Kremlin

    07-09-1957

    An American correspondent with a Russian wife and children faces increased hostility in Moscow during Stalin's reign, and try desperately to secure a way out of the country.

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