Ghost Squad (TV series): Difference between revisions

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| network = [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]

| first_aired = {{start date|1961|9|9|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1964|5|16|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1964|||df=y}}

| num_series = 3

| num_episodes = 52 (13 [[Lost television broadcast#Wiping|missing]])

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| Series Three

| 22 February 1964

| 6 June 1964<ref>{{cite news |title=June 6 Saturday |url=https://mcmweb.co.uk/tvtimes/1964/May%2031st%201964.pdf |date=29 May 1964 |accessdate=16 December 2025 |work=TV Times |page=43}}</ref>

| 16 May 1964

| 13

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==Series one==

* 1. Hong Kong Story: A man is murdered so Craig gets a job as air crew to get inside a ring of smugglers, smuggling gold from Hong Kong to Karachi. Also features: [[Bill Kerr]], [[George Pastell]] and [[Leonard Sachs]].

* 1. Hong Kong Story: A man is murdered so Craig gets a job as air crew to get inside a ring of smugglers, smuggling gold from Hong Kong to Karachi. Also features [[Bill Kerr]], [[George Pastell]] and [[Leonard Sachs]].

* 2. Bullet with my Name on it: An American lawyer in Rome is the next target of Murder, Inc. Craig takes his place as the assassin’s next victim. Also features [[Alfred Burke]], [[Philip Ray]] and [[Richard Shaw (actor)|Richard Shaw]].

* 3. Ticket for Blackmail: An exclusive tour of France run by two brothers is a front for a con game, blackmail and murder. When Craig is in trouble with the French police, his boss denies knowledge of him. Also features: [[Ronald Leigh-Hunt]], [[Alex Scott (actor)|Alex Scott]], [[Donald Morley (actor)|Donald Morley]] and [[Edwin Richfield]].

* 3. Ticket for Blackmail: An exclusive tour of France run by two brothers is a front for a con game, blackmail and murder. When Craig is in trouble with the French police, his boss denies knowledge of him. Also features [[Ronald Leigh-Hunt]], [[Alex Scott (actor)|Alex Scott]], [[Donald Morley (actor)|Donald Morley]] and [[Edwin Richfield]].

* 4. Broken Doll: Five blonde girls are murdered in Marseilles. Julie Peters ([[Julia Arnall]]) is sent to investigate as she fits the profile of the victims. She gets a job as singer with the creepy Sergie Federoff ([[Simon Lack]]) who makes dolls of his favourites. Odd that the Marseilles police did not recognise Craig from his adventure there in the previous episode. Also features: [[Richard Leech]] and [[Harry Locke]].

* 5. High Wire: A wave of bank robberies across Western Europe and a circus playing nearby each time leads Craig to get a job with them after saving the boss’s ([[William Hartnell]]) life. Rice, the boss worked with Wilson in Special Ops in WWII. Hartnell with no stand-in got very wet doing underwater escapes in this show. Also features [[John Cairney]], [[Tom Adams (actor)|Tom Adams]] and [[André Maranne]].

* 6. Eyes of the Bat: Jerome ([[William Lucas (actor)|William Lucas]]) and his gang steal secrets and then blackmail companies and even countries who want them back. Craig joins the organisation as The Bat, a well-known ~~safe cracker~~. Also features [[Lionel Murton]], [[Edward Judd]] and [[Dudley Foster]].

* 6. Eyes of the Bat: Jerome ([[William Lucas (actor)|William Lucas]]) and his gang steal secrets and then blackmail companies and even countries who want them back. Craig joins the organisation as The Bat, a well-known . Also features [[Lionel Murton]], [[Edward Judd]] and [[Dudley Foster]].

* 7. Still Waters: The jewels from a series of robberies around the world are known to be sent to Amsterdam to be recut before being sold on. Craig joins the organisation as a diamond cutter. Also features [[John Carson (actor)|John Carson]] and [[Stratford Johns]].

* 8. Assassin: The Prime Minister of a small ~~eastern~~ European country is murdered and an American man framed for his death in a plot to get the Communists to win power there. Also features [[Jill Ireland]], [[Joseph Fürst]], [[George Coulouris]], [[Paul Maxwell]] and [[Norman Bird]].

* 8. Assassin: The Prime Minister of a small European country is murdered and an American man framed for his death in a plot to get the Communists to win power there. Also features [[Jill Ireland]], [[Joseph Fürst]], [[George Coulouris]], [[Paul Maxwell]] and [[Norman Bird]].

* 9. Million Dollar Ransom: Dr Cookson who is working on a new anti-missile system is kidnapped in Stockholm for a large ransom with the threat of handing him over the Russians if the money is not paid. The 1961 [[Monte Carlo Rally]] (actual footage shown) is used to smuggle Cookson to Switzerland. Also features [[Bruce Beeby]], [[Peter Dyneley]], [[Jennifer Jayne]], [[Olaf Pooley]], [[Keith Pyott]] and [[Jenny Laird]].

* 10. Catspaw: In the small South American country of Sebasiana, the men under the President plot to frame him for theft of the country’s funds followed by his death. Craig has worked for Ghost Squad for eight years. Also features [[Paul Stassino]], [[Michael Goodliffe]], [[Alec Mango]], [[George Pastell]] and [[Brian Blessed]].

* 11. The Green Shoes: A small bar of radioactive material which can help make a neutron bomb is stolen and smuggled to Warsaw inside a ballet shoe. One man has already died from the radioactivity and Craig rushes to Warsaw to stop a ballerina who is to wear the shoe, from suffering the same fate. Also features [[Ewen Solon]], [[Glyn Houston]], [[Neil McCarthy (actor)|Neil McCarthy]] and [[Martin Miller (actor)|Martin Miller]].

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* 15. East of Mandalay: After being unable to get holidays in the earlier episodes, Craig is off on another 2-week holiday, allowing Tony Miller (Neil Hallett) to take the case. In the Far East country of Sylon, the ”British Eastern” company is suspected of helping the rebels who want to overthrow the government and Miller must get evidence of this. Also features [[Ian Fleming (actor)|Ian Fleming]] and [[Wolfe Morris]].

* 16. Sentences of Death: Craig is drugged and forced to reveal important information. The people want £40,000 or they will sell the information on. Also features [[Ronald Leigh-Hunt]], [[Ann Lynn]], [[Bernard Spear]], [[Reg Lye]] and [[John Boyd-Brent]].

* 17. The Golden Silence: No mention of Craig and Mike Ferrers ([[Gordon Jackson (actor)|Gordon Jackson]]) is boss. A GS operative is killed chasing gold smugglers so Tony Miller (who lives at 17, Hawthorne Mews, S.W.3.) tries to join their organisation but is almost immediately suspected. Bad guy, Max Leach ([[David Lodge (actor)|David Lodge]]) continually calls every man “darling” and “love”. Also features [[David Garth (actor)|David Garth]].

* 17. The Golden Silence: No mention of Craig and Mike Ferrers ([[Gordon Jackson (actor)|Gordon Jackson]]) is boss. A GS operative is killed chasing gold smugglers so Tony Miller (who lives at 17, Hawthorne Mews, S.W.3.) tries to join their organisation but is almost immediately suspected. Bad guy Max Leach ([[David Lodge (actor)|David Lodge]]) continually calls every man “darling” and “love”. Also features [[David Garth (actor)|David Garth]].

* 18. The Retirement of the Gentle Dove: Gentle Dove was the code name of a double agent working for the Allies in 1943 but he switched sides and many spies for the Allies were executed. The then head of British Intelligence set about finding him and eventually tracked him down to a retirement home, where he was murdered. A disguised Geoffrey Stock (Boss of GS) goes there undercover with Craig outside, to find Gentle Dove. Also features [[Ballard Berkeley]] and [[Philip Ray]].

* 19. The Missing People: A violent gang of people smugglers have killed a GS operative. Miller infiltrates the gang who charge Polish people £1,000 a time, then drop them into the sea. Also features [[Nigel Green]], [[Willoughby Goddard]], [[Pamela Ann Davy]], [[Hana Maria Pravda]], [[Rio Fanning]], [[Peter Fraser (actor)|Peter Fraser]] and [[Glyn Dearman]].

* 20. Lost in Transit: A murderous band of fanatics under Van Tempel (Anthony Jacobs) want to take over the world. GS has a man inside their organisation but they spot him. Tony Miller has to stop them letting a large bomb ~~off~~ at the Opera. Also features [[John Woodvine]], [[André Maranne]], [[Jeremy Young]], [[Arnold Diamond]], [[Walter Randall]], [[John Scott Martin]], [[Anthony Jacobs (actor)|Anthony Jacobs]], [[Brian Vaughan (actor)|Brian Vaughan]] and [[Wilfred Carter (actor)|Wilfred Carter]].

* 20. Lost in Transit: A murderous band of fanatics under Van Tempel (Anthony Jacobs) want to take over the world. GS has a man inside their organisation but they spot him. Tony Miller has to stop them letting a large bomb at the Opera. Also features [[John Woodvine]], [[André Maranne]], [[Jeremy Young]], [[Arnold Diamond]], [[Walter Randall]], [[John Scott Martin]], [[Anthony Jacobs (actor)|Anthony Jacobs]], [[Brian Vaughan (actor)|Brian Vaughan]] and [[Wilfred Carter (actor)|Wilfred Carter]].

* 21. The Man with the Delicate Hands: A man is burned to death in an apparent car accident but his sister knows it is not the man claimed because the body does not have delicate hands. Her brother is being tortured nearby to get information that can be used on [[Insider trading]] to make money on planned currency devaluations. Boss Henry Dickinson ([[Basil Dignam]]) sends Miller on the case. Also features [[Derek Francis]], [[Erik Chitty]] and [[Keith Marsh]].

* 22. Hot Money: An obviously counterfeit pound note leads Craig on the trail of a quarter of a million pounds of stolen money, thanks to Geoffrey Stock. Also features [[Lloyd Lamble]], [[Samantha Eggar]] and [[Michael Coles (actor)|Michael Coles]].

* 23. The Grand Duchess: The name of a Goya painting on loan to a London museum. Miller joins a gang intent on stealing it to find the gang’s mastermind. When they steal it, they find someone else has beaten them to it and all they have is a fake. Also features [[John Barron (actor)|John Barron]], [[Garfield Morgan]], [[Colin Douglas (actor)|Colin Douglas]], [[William Gaunt]], [[Michael Robbins]], [[John Ringham]], Clifford Cox and [[Roger Avon]].

* 24. A First Class Way to Die: Craig is on a cruise to Dubrovnik to protect an important scientist on holiday. It is not long before the first murder occurs then a second, both of which are tied up with ”The Condor”, a criminal. Tony Miller turns up at the end and meets Craig. Also features [[Peter Dyneley]], [[Peter Halliday]], [[Jennifer Daniel]], [[Keith Anderson (actor)|Keith Anderson]] and [[Charles Morgan (actor)|Charles Morgan]].

* 25. Quarantine at Kavar: Valuable thorium is believed to have been found in a small desert kingdom. Craig helped by Jean Carter is thwarted at every step by the Emir who wants to keep his kingdom isolated to protect his power. Also features [[Maurice Kaufmann]], [[Roger Delgado]], [[Martin Wyldeck]], [[Elvi Hale]], [[Patrick Carter (actor)|Patrick Carter]], [[Dallas Cavell]] and [[Julian Sherrier]].

* 26. The Desperate Diplomat: Craig and Geoffrey Stock investigate with the help of a ~~safe-cracker~~ (Tom Bowman) when the wife of a diplomat is not just a user but is also smuggling heroin into the country. Also features [[Ferdy Mayne]], [[Richard Caldicot]], [[Barbara Shelley]], [[Ivor Salter]] and [[Tom Bowman (actor)|Tom Bowman]].

* 26. The Desperate Diplomat: Craig and Geoffrey Stock investigate with the help of a (Tom Bowman) when the wife of a diplomat is not just a user but is also smuggling heroin into the country. Also features [[Ferdy Mayne]], [[Richard Caldicot]], [[Barbara Shelley]], [[Ivor Salter]] and [[Tom Bowman (actor)|Tom Bowman]].

* 27. The Big Time: A tramp ([[Paul Farrell]]) steals a purse containing £70,000 in uncut diamonds, spoiling the work of Craig and others who were waiting for it to be handed over so they could arrest the smugglers. Craig has to track him down before the gang gets to him. Also features [[Vincent Ball]], [[Geoffrey Chater]], [[George Murcell]], [[Derek Waring]], [[Henry McGee]] and [[Dennis Edwards (actor)|Dennis Edwards]].

* 28. The Last Jump: Miller and Stock join a parachute regiment where someone is killing paras and using its West Germany jumps to pass equipment to East Germany. Miller calls Carter: “Porridge” 3 times. Also features [[Jack Watling]].

* 29. Escape Route: A rich swindler in London turns up as a dead tramp in Sydney. Not the first rich swindler to have vanished just ahead of the police so Craig poses as one and is taken on the escape route, being systematically swindled along the way. Also features [[Hugh Burden]], [[Terence Alexander]], [[John Junkin]], [[Alan White (actor)|Alan White]] and [[Steven Scott (actor)|Steven Scott]].

* 30. Mr Five Per Cent: Smuggled guns are causing tension between Russia and America. Miller has to work with someone ([[Guy Deghy]]) who has spent his life making shady deals and living on the suffering of others to crack this case. Also features [[Edwin Richfield]] and [[William Marlowe]].

* 31. The Heir Apparent: A playboy prince from a Middle Eastern country comes to an English college. Craig not very successfully keeps his eye on him as a games master, as his uncle, ([[Roger Delgado]]) tries to kill him. Also features [[Frank Middlemass]], [[Arnold Diamond]], [[David Blake Kelly]] and [[Julian Sherrier]].

* 31. The Heir Apparent: A playboy prince from a Middle Eastern country comes to an English college. Craig not very successfully keeps his eye on him as a games master, as his uncle ([[Roger Delgado]]) tries to kill him. Also features [[Frank Middlemass]], [[Arnold Diamond]], [[David Blake Kelly]] and [[Julian Sherrier]].

* 32. Death of a Sportsman: Miller who is working with a female operative (Patricia Mort) in Cairo, trying to stop a diamond smuggling operation believes a man he had thought dead, ([[John Longden]]) may be part of it. Miller is recognised as a policeman who won a judo competition ten years ago. Also features [[Martin Benson (actor)|Martin Benson]], [[Warren Mitchell]], [[Noel Howlett]], [[Peter Diamond (actor)|Peter Diamond]] and [[Arnold Yarrow]].

* 32. Death of a Sportsman: Miller who is working with a female operative (Patricia Mort) in Cairo, trying to stop a diamond smuggling operation believes a man he had thought dead ([[John Longden]]) may be part of it. Miller is recognised as a policeman who won a judo competition ten years ago. Also features [[Martin Benson (actor)|Martin Benson]], [[Warren Mitchell]], [[Noel Howlett]], [[Peter Diamond (actor)|Peter Diamond]] and [[Arnold Yarrow]].

* 33. P. G. 7: A pacifist working for the government makes Paralyzing Gas 7. It makes test mice fall asleep for a few hours then wake up without any ill effects so he wants every country to have it to stop wars. He agrees to sell it to some unscrupulous people not knowing that if it is used on (monkeys or) humans it will kill them painfully after they revive. Also features [[George Pastell]], [[Alister Williamson]], [[Frank Gatliff]] and [[Derek Sydney]].

* 34. Polsky: A political group pull robberies across France to fund their anarchy then move to the UK, using and discarding people as they go. Miller pretends to be a Polish locksmith in trouble with the law, so is picked up by them (they nickname him Polsky). To get at the headman, Miller causes trouble, which puts him in deadly danger. Craig puts in an appearance at the office. Also features [[Ray Barrett]], [[Gerald Cross]], [[Frederick Schiller]], [[Fernanda Marlowe]], [[Tom Bowman (actor)|Tom Bowman]] and [[Alec Ross (actor)|Alec Ross]].

* 35. The Magic Bullet: The car brake pipes of a scientist working on nuclear weapon research are cut, resulting in his death. Craig becomes a scientist and with help from Jean Carter tries to find the person responsible. Also features [[David Markham]], [[Mary Morris]] and [[Norman Claridge]].

* 36. The Menacing Mazurka: Miller is a publicity agent to keep an eye on the (Moscow) Bassrai State Dancers visit to London. A dancer wants to defect but Miller is suspicious of her. The visit is being used to try and return a Colonel ([[George Pravda]]) who defected to Britain years earlier. Also features [[Olaf Pooley]], [[Harry Towb]] and [[Rex Robinson (actor)|Rex Robinson]].

* 37. Gertrude: Craig struggles in a comedy of errors to take a female spy and her plans of a Middle East anti-British uprising to England. However Gertrude (Mary MacKenzie) is self-centred, untrustworthy and nothing but trouble to all around her as Atarah agents and the police close in. End titles have bagpipe music. Also features [[Archie Duncan (actor)|Archie Duncan]], [[Douglas Wilmer]], [[Richard Caldicot]], [[Henry Lincoln]], [[Raf De La Torre]] and [[Steve Plytas]].

* 38. The Thirteenth Girl: Neither Craig nor Miller appeared in this. Sally Lomax (Patricia Mort) is sent undercover to find what has happened to 12 au pairs, who have vanished, one having recently turned up dead. Also features [[John Carson (actor)|John Carson]], [[Simon Oates]], [[Molly Weir]], [[Margaret John]] and [[Peter Diamond (actor)|Peter Diamond]].

* 39. Sabotage: Miller takes the place of a Dutch saboteur out to blow up a port installation in the Fillemore Islands, which are about to gain independence from Britain. Also features [[Eric Pohlmann]] and [[John Paul (actor)|John Paul]].

==Series three==

* 40. An Eye for an Eye: Also features [[William Marlowe]].

* 41. A Cast of Thousands: Also features [[Richard Easton]], [[Edwin Richfield]] and [[George Pravda]].

* 42. Death of a Cop: Also features [[Roger Delgado]] ~~and~~ [[Robert Brown (British actor)|Robert Brown]].

* 42. Death of a Cop: Also features [[Roger Delgado]] [[Robert Brown (British actor)|Robert Brown]].

* 43. Party for Murder: Also features [[Lois Maxwell]], [[Barry Letts]], [[Michael Mellinger]] and [[Larry Taylor (actor)|Lary Taylor]].<ref>{{cite news |title=March 14 Saturday |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0005554/19640306/301/0054 |date=6 March 1964 |accessdate=16 December 2025 |work=TV Times |page=54}}</ref>

* 43. Party for Murder: Also features [[Lois Maxwell]].

* 44. Dead Men Don’t Drive: Also features [[Zena Marshall]], [[Geoffrey Chater]], [[Colin Douglas (actor)|Colin Douglas]], [[~~Bernard~~ ~~Lee~~]] and [[Kenneth Watson (actor)|Kenneth Watson]].

* 44. Dead Men Don’t Drive: Also features [[Zena Marshall]], [[Geoffrey Chater]], [[Colin Douglas (actor)|Colin Douglas]], [[ ]] and [[Kenneth Watson (actor)|Kenneth Watson]].

* 45. Pay Up or Else: Also features [[Harry Towb]], [[Felix Felton]] ~~and~~ [[Toni Palmer]].

* 45. Pay Up or Else: Also features [[Harry Towb]], [[Felix Felton]] [[Toni Palmer]].

* 46. Dr. Ayre: Also features [[Garfield Morgan]], [[Freddie Earlle]] and [[Dennis Edwards (actor)|Dennis Edwards]].

* 47. Scorpion Rock: Also features [[Paul Whitsun-Jones]] ~~and~~ [[Michael Robbins]].

* 47. Scorpion Rock: Also features [[Paul Whitsun-Jones]] [[Michael Robbins]].

* 48. The Goldfish Bowl: Also features [[Gerald Sim]] ~~and~~ [[Talfryn Thomas]].

* 48. The Goldfish Bowl: Also features [[Gerald Sim]] [[Talfryn Thomas]].

* 49. Seven Sisters of Wong: Also features [[Reed De Rouen]], [[Donald Morley (actor)|Donald Morley]], [[Shane Rimmer]] and [[Leonard Sachs]].

* 50. Rich Ruby Wine: Also features [[Geoffrey Bayldon]], [[Harold Goldblatt]] and [[Tutte Lemkow]].

* 51. Hideout: Also features [[Emrys Jones (actor)|Emrys Jones]] ~~and~~ [[John Boyd-Brent]].

* 51. Hideout: Also features [[Emrys Jones (actor)|Emrys Jones]] [[John Boyd-Brent]].

* 52. It Won’t Be a Stylish Marriage: Also features [[George A. Cooper]] and [[David Garth (actor)|David Garth]].

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