Behind Closed Doors
TV ShowEnded

Behind Closed Doors

1958
1 season
26 episodes
War & PoliticsDrama

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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  • Ep 1

    1.The Cape Canaveral Story

    02-10-195830m

    Wayne Hollister, a Florida fisherman, is approached by a Mr. Meyers who rents his boat for one day and demands to be taken to the waters off Cape Canaveral, not to fish, but to wat...

  • Ep 2

    2.Flight to Freedom

    09-10-195830m

    Brauer, a German scientist is held prisoner by the communists. The German scientist, forced to serve Russia’s guided missile program, attempts an escape when he sees his associate...

  • Ep 3

    3.Double Jeopardy

    16-10-195830m

    British and U.S. intelligence agents learn that the Soviet ambassador to the U.N. is scheduled to arrive in London and divulge the Russian's new tactics to the Russian embassy ther...

  • Ep 4

    4.Mig 9

    23-10-195830m

    Lt. Tarkhanov, a Russian test pilot, sent to Germany on secret mission is hampered by Russian agents. The Russian Air Force lieutenant who wants to defect to the West, arranges to...

  • Ep 5

    5.Trouble in Test Cell 19

    30-10-195830m

    A new jet engine that is being tested for its suitability for mass production blows up on the final test. Exam of the wreckage shows evidence of sabotage. U.S. Intelligence agents...

  • Ep 6

    6.Man in the Moon

    06-11-195830m

    Clara Koller, a widow, has the important job of handling the budget of a manufacturing company engaged in a secret government project. When she is asked to join a friendship club s...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Nike Story

    13-11-195830m

    Captain John Benson is sent to investigate when a fellow officer is murdered trying to trap an enemy agent on a missile base. Benson arranges to hold open house at the base in an a...

  • Ep 8

    8.It Was Learned on High Authority

    27-11-195830m

    Fred Lang, an enemy agent, works as an engineer on a missile base in Los Angeles. He learns that a group of scientists is scheduled to fly to Cape Canaveral and is ordered to place...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Enemy on the Flank

    04-12-195830m

    U.S. Intelligence men learn that a U.S.S.R. sub operating from a base in Albania plan to interfere with movements of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Two agents are assig...

  • Ep 10

    10.A Cover of Art

    11-12-195830m

    Commander Matson enters Czechoslovakia disguised as an art dealer, part of a plan to get atomic scientist Andrew Fleming out of the country. Tension mounts as the time of Fleming's...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Middle East Story

    18-12-195830m

    Jessica Tabor overhears a plot to assassinate King Hussein of Jordan and turns to secret agents James Foster and Harry Shaw to help forward information to Jordan and put the King o...

  • Ep 12

    12.The Brioni Story

    25-12-195830m

    This episode tells of an American secret operative (Sheldon Lawrence) who uncovers a plot to assassinate Marshal Tito and is warned to beware of a sculptress (Jeanette Strike.).

  • Ep 13

    13.The Obelisk

    01-01-195930m

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

  • Ep 14

    14.The Germany Story

    08-01-195930m

    A Dr. Haas has set himself up as head of German fencing society, whose youthful members he uses to further his own subversive plans. Peter Gebhardt joins in an attempt to learn of...

  • Ep 15

    15.The Alkaloid Angle

    22-01-195930m

    During an investigation of a shipment of narcotics to a Mid East port, a U.S. agent is killed. Agent Robert Hatfield, called out of retirement to work on the case, learns that a tr...

  • Ep 16

    16.Crypto 40

    29-01-195930m

    Scientist David Sparrow, developer of a code machine, is captured and held behind the Iron Curtain. Realizing that Sparrow will be forced to make a similar machine for the U.S.S.R....

  • Ep 17

    17.The Alaskan Story

    05-02-195930m

    Attempting to break up a Communist spy ring in Alaska, Captain John Rand enters the penitentiary as a prisoner to become friendly with a Red agent, help him to escape in the hope t...

  • Ep 18

    18.The Quemoy Story

    12-02-195930m

    In Macao, Anna Sung, a U.S. agent, is kidnapped by the Reds. Searching for her, Commander Bennett and Mike Perrera, a local police detective, come across a plan to infiltrate and c...

  • Ep 19

    19.The Espionage Students

    19-02-195930m
  • Ep 20

    20.The Geneva Story

    26-02-195930m

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

  • Ep 21

    21.The Meeting

    05-03-195930m

    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 to meet with Western agents from six Iron Curtain countries.

  • Ep 22

    22.Mightier Than the Sword

    12-03-195930m

    U.S. agent Douglas Kincaid joins the Communist Party and learns that Feodor Mashay, once a top Kremlin official, wants to defect. Kincaid is assigned to help Mashay escape.

  • Ep 23

    23.The Gamble

    19-03-195930m
  • Ep 24

    24.Double Agent

    26-03-195930m

    A British counterintelligence agent tries to track down a spy working for both East and West who is responsible for the shipment of arms to western sympathizers behind the Iron Cur...

  • Ep 25

    25.The Antidote

    02-04-195930m

    Dr. Paul Matley, inventor of a radiation antidote and his wife Laura, are at a night club when Laura is poisoned by Communist agents. Matley is told that Laura will be saved only i...

  • Ep 26

    26.Assignment Prague

    09-04-195930m

    In Warsaw, an anti-Communist uprising has somehow gone unreported in the West. A U.S. agent posing as a former American film director recruited by the Commies to direct propaganda...

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