Mantrap (ITV 1956)

UK / ITV – Associated Rediffusion / 7×30 minute episodes / Broadcast 17 September – 9 October 1956

Executive Producer: Caryl Doncaster

Wartime spy drama series. Exploits of spies during the Second World War.. Writers were Jan Murray, Paul Vincent Carroll, Miles Fleetwood, Colin Fraser, Juan Cortez and A.R. Rawlinson.

THE EPISODES
1. THE TRAITOR
2. OPERATION SHAMROCK
3. THE LIAR
4. PHANTOM REFUGEES
5. THE HOSTAGE
6. NO ESCAPE
7. THE THIRD MEETING

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