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Spyder's Web

6.5 / 10

1972

1 season

13 episodes

CrimeDrama

Spyder's Web was a British crime drama television series aired in 1972. It starred Anthony Ainley as Clive Hawksworth and Patricia Cutts as Charlotte "Lottie" Dean as two secret agents working for the mysterious Spyder organisation in the interests of the British government.

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Cast

Roger Lloyd Pack

Veronica Carlson

Patricia Cutts

Anthony Ainley

Peter Sallis

Seasons

The Arachnid Film Unit run by Lottie Dean (Patricia Cutts) is the cover for an obscure group of intelligence operatives. Licensed to Kill.

Ep 1
1.Spyder Secures a Main Strand
21-01-1972
After a British agent fleeing across a Communist border is picked up by car, and shot, the Web weaves its way into the hunt for a traitor. A reshuffle of British security is called...
Ep 2
2.The Executioners
28-01-197252m
Hawksworth infiltrates a wealthy group of men who imprison, and aim to re-educate, degenerate members of society.
Ep 3
3.Romance on Wheels
04-02-197251m
Lottie and Hawksworth join members of a dating agency on a trip behind the Iron Curtain to discover how certain candidates are being replaced by Soviet agents.
Ep 4
4.The Hafiz Affair
11-02-197250m
The Spyder team are manipulated into a plot against the election of a new president in an emergent African state.
Ep 5
5.Life at a Price
18-02-197248m
The Spyder agents uncover murder and fraud in an exclusive maternity home.
Ep 6
6.Emergency Exit
25-02-197250m
Spyder's Web (1972) A Spyder agent is substituted for one of the opposition's to discover how the enemy escape route works. The trail leads to the Viscount Employment Agency run b...
Ep 7
7.Red Admiral
03-03-197252m
On the pretext of making a film, Lottie and Hawksworth investigate Admiral Manders. Could he be falling under Soviet influence?
Ep 8
8.Lies and Dolls
10-03-197248m
Spyder's Web (1972) A message from a myna bird alerts Lottie to the death of an MP, which then leads to Eastern European puppeteers who are the front for a people-smuggling organi...
Ep 9
9.Things That Go Bang in the Night
17-03-197251m
An inventor of bizarre killing-machines leaves a lethal legacy, which his eccentric relations compete to get their hands on.
Ep 10
10.An Almost Modern Man
24-03-197251m
Lottie and Hawksworth endeavour to protect the president of a Central American republic from assassination.
Ep 11
11.Nobody's Strawberry Fool
31-03-197251m
A bizarre story of a body preserved in the Swiss snow since 1914 - which has now gone missing in transit.
Ep 12
12.The Prevalence of Skeletons
07-04-197251m
What is behind the killing of a number of prominent individuals, why did they withdraw their life savings on the day of their deaths, and why have their corpses aged so dramaticall...
Ep 13
13.Rev Counter
14-04-197252m
Lottie and Hawksworth infiltrate an eccentric group led by a vicar who aim to liberate the Isle of Wight from the English - by armed force.

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