Virgin of the Secret Service — Season 1, Episode 12: The Professor Goes West

Episode synopsis

When an Englishman in America invents a magnometer - a device that locates oil - he is kidnapped by von Brauner and would-be oil tycoon Big Jack.

About Virgin of the Secret Service

Set in the 1900s, when the British Secret Service was a new, unofficial arm of military activity, the series features Captain Robert Virgin - an officer and a gentleman who fights as a man of honour. Armed only with intelligence, ingenuity, physical strength and abundant charm, Virgin faces every sort of peril as he defends King and country - from industrial espionage to anarchist bomb plots, assassination attempts to kidnapping.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Dark Deeds on the Northwest Frontier
• E2Russian Roundabout
• E3Entente Cordiale
• E4The Great Ring of Akba
• E5The Amazons
• E6The Rajah and the Suffragette
• E7Persuasion of a Million Drops
• E8Pride of Assassins
• E9Across the Silver Pass of Gusri Song
• E10The Pyramid Plot
• E11A Fate Worse Than Death
• E13Wings Over Glencraig