Spyder's Web — Season 1
The Arachnid Film Unit run by Lottie Dean (Patricia Cutts) is the cover for an obscure group of intelligence operatives. Licensed to Kill.
About this season
The Arachnid Film Unit run by Lottie Dean (Patricia Cutts) is the cover for an obscure group of intelligence operatives. Licensed to Kill.
Episodes (13)
1. Spyder Secures a Main Strand
Aired 21 January 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 for and Charlotte accepts the challenge.
2. The Executioners
Aired 28 January 1972 • 52 min
Hawksworth infiltrates a wealthy group of men who imprison, and aim to re-educate, degenerate members of society.
3. Romance on Wheels
Aired 4 February 1972 • 51 min
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.
4. The Hafiz Affair
Aired 11 February 1972 • 50 min
The Spyder team are manipulated into a plot against the election of a new president in an emergent African state.
5. Life at a Price
Aired 18 February 1972 • 48 min
The Spyder agents uncover murder and fraud in an exclusive maternity home.
6. Emergency Exit
Aired 25 February 1972 • 50 min
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 by Kalashnkov - whom adores the British aristocracy.
7. Red Admiral
Aired 3 March 1972 • 52 min
On the pretext of making a film, Lottie and Hawksworth investigate Admiral Manders. Could he be falling under Soviet influence?
8. Lies and Dolls
Aired 10 March 1972 • 48 min
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 organization.
9. Things That Go Bang in the Night
Aired 17 March 1972 • 51 min
An inventor of bizarre killing-machines leaves a lethal legacy, which his eccentric relations compete to get their hands on.
10. An Almost Modern Man
Aired 24 March 1972 • 51 min
Lottie and Hawksworth endeavour to protect the president of a Central American republic from assassination.
11. Nobody's Strawberry Fool
Aired 31 March 1972 • 51 min
A bizarre story of a body preserved in the Swiss snow since 1914 - which has now gone missing in transit.
12. The Prevalence of Skeletons
Aired 7 April 1972 • 51 min
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 dramatically? Lottie and Hawksworth investigate.
13. Rev Counter
Aired 14 April 1972 • 52 min
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.