Spycatcher

[John Bisson]

Anybody remember this drama series with Bernard Archer in the role of Colonel Oreste Pinto? This memorable series was based on a book about the wartime work of Colonel Pinto in screening out possible spies.
A website gives some details of episodes that may survive, but I'd be very interested to known of more details & if any episodes are available commercially.
I remember one or two of the episodes quite well, including one were the man being interrogated said that he had swum part of the way across the Straits of Gibraltar--as a result he had to prove it by doing 50 laps or so of the local swimming pool!

[helpful hartley]

I thought i had remembered it, then i realised i was thinking about 'Spytrap' with Paul Daneman

[William Martin]

Guest-John said:

Anybody remember this drama series with Bernard Archer in the role of Colonel Oreste Pinto? This memorable series was based on a book about the wartime work of Colonel Pinto in screening out possible spies.
A website gives some details of episodes that may survive, but I'd be very interested to known of more details & if any episodes are available commercially.
I remember one or two of the episodes quite well, including one were the man being interrogated said that he had swum part of the way across the Straits of Gibraltar--as a result he had to prove it by doing 50 laps or so of the local swimming pool!

was this a true story? I have read about the swiming pool thing before