Episode 9493: Spy Catcher - "Keeping A Promise" (09-13-61)

Keeping A Promise (Aired September 13, 1961)

Spy Catcher was based on the memoirs of Lt. Col. Oreste Pinto, a Dutch intelligence agent who worked for the Allied Counterintelligence Services in England during WWII - described by Eisenhower as "the greatest living expert in security". It charted the exploits of Pinto and his team of investigators as they relentlessly tried to root out potential spies entering Britain. Spy Catcher began its life in 1959 as a 19 part TV series and made a star of Bernard Archard who played Pinto. Masterminded by writer Robert Barr, Spy Catcher was produced in an almost the documentary manner and Pinto's half-hour cases were based on true stories. Each episode found Pinto interrogating a self-proclaimed Allied serviceman or political refugee. Using all the verbal and psychological tricks at his command, Pinto endeavored to find out if the interviewee was actually a Nazi spy - which often as not proved to be the case. In 1960 Robert Barr penned 26 Spy Catcher stories for BBC Radio - and these were broadcast in two seasons across the next two years again with Bernard Archard in the role of Pinto. Show Notes From Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod