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The Best Episodes of Behind Closed Doors

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Behind Closed Doors is an American drama series set during the Cold War hosted by and occasionally starring Bruce Gordon in the role of Commander Matson. The series, which aired on NBC from October 2,

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    Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 1 - The Cape Canaveral Story
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    #1 - The Cape Canaveral Story

    S1:E1

    Wayne Hollister, a Florida fisherman, is approached by a Mr. Meyers who rents his boat for one day and demands to be taken to the waters off Cape Canaveral, not to fish, but to watch a rocket launching.

    Director:Paul Wendkos
    Writer:Paul Monash

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  2. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 2 - Flight to Freedom
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    #2 - Flight to Freedom

    S1:E2

    Brauer, a German scientist is held prisoner by the communists. The German scientist, forced to serve Russia’s guided missile program, attempts an escape when he sees his associate turned into a "human vegetable" by brain surgery.

    Director:Paul Wendkos
    Writer:Fenton Earnshaw

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  3. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 3 - Double Jeopardy
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    #3 - Double Jeopardy

    S1:E3

    British and U.S. intelligence agents learn that the Soviet ambassador to the U.N. is scheduled to arrive in London and divulge the Russian's new tactics to the Russian embassy there. The Allies try to plant a recording device in the embassy and ask a staid Britisher to help them.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Leonard Lee

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  4. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 4 - Mig 9
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    #4 - Mig 9

    S1:E4

    Lt. Tarkhanov, a Russian test pilot, sent to Germany on secret mission is hampered by Russian agents. The Russian Air Force lieutenant who wants to defect to the West, arranges to fly out the latest Rusian Mig jet to an American Air Force base in Germany.

    Director:John Peyser
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 5 - Trouble in Test Cell 19
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    #5 - Trouble in Test Cell 19

    S1:E5

    A new jet engine that is being tested for its suitability for mass production blows up on the final test. Exam of the wreckage shows evidence of sabotage. U.S. Intelligence agents try to find the sabateur.

    Director:John Peyser
    Writers:Richard Tregaskis, Jacqueline Hazard

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  6. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 6 - Man in the Moon
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    #6 - Man in the Moon

    S1:E6

    Clara Koller, a widow, has the important job of handling the budget of a manufacturing company engaged in a secret government project. When she is asked to join a friendship club she accepts, unaware that the club is a front for enemy agents.

    Director:John Peyser
    Writer:Irving Wallace

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  7. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 7 - The Nike Story
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    #7 - The Nike Story

    S1:E7

    Captain John Benson is sent to investigate when a fellow officer is murdered trying to trap an enemy agent on a missile base. Benson arranges to hold open house at the base in an attempt to capture the entire ring of agents at the base.

    Director:John Peyser
    Writer:John Hawkins

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  8. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 8 - It Was Learned on High Authority
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    #8 - It Was Learned on High Authority

    S1:E8

    Fred Lang, an enemy agent, works as an engineer on a missile base in Los Angeles. He learns that a group of scientists is scheduled to fly to Cape Canaveral and is ordered to place a bomb on the plane.

    Director:John Peyser
    Writers:Stanley Niss, Herbert Abbott Spiro

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  9. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 9 - The Enemy on the Flank
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    #9 - The Enemy on the Flank

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    U.S. Intelligence men learn that a U.S.S.R. sub operating from a base in Albania plan to interfere with movements of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Two agents are assigned to get information re the U.S.S.R. plans.

    Director:John Peyser
    Writer:Alan Caillou

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  10. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 10 - A Cover of Art
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    #10 - A Cover of Art

    S1:E10

    Commander Matson enters Czechoslovakia disguised as an art dealer, part of a plan to get atomic scientist Andrew Fleming out of the country. Tension mounts as the time of Fleming's trial nears and Matson has to call upon a group of Czech resistance fighters for help.

    Director:Boris Sagal
    Writers:George Fass, Gertrude Fass

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  11. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 11 - The Middle East Story
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    #11 - The Middle East Story

    S1:E11

    Jessica Tabor overhears a plot to assassinate King Hussein of Jordan and turns to secret agents James Foster and Harry Shaw to help forward information to Jordan and put the King out of danger.

    Director:John Peyser
    Writer:Fenton Earnshaw

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  12. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 12 - The Brioni Story
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    #12 - The Brioni Story

    S1:E12

    This episode tells of an American secret operative (Sheldon Lawrence) who uncovers a plot to assassinate Marshal Tito and is warned to beware of a sculptress (Jeanette Strike.).

    Director:Samuel Gallu
    Writer:Charles Bennett

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  13. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 13 - The Obelisk
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    #13 - The Obelisk

    S1:E13

    A British atomic scientist steals important papers and heads for the moors, where he is to meet a U.S.S.R. helicopter.

    Director:Samuel Gallu
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 14 - The Germany Story
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    #14 - The Germany Story

    S1:E14

    A Dr. Haas has set himself up as head of German fencing society, whose youthful members he uses to further his own subversive plans. Peter Gebhardt joins in an attempt to learn of plans to establish a new regime.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 15 - The Alkaloid Angle
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    #15 - The Alkaloid Angle

    S1:E15

    During an investigation of a shipment of narcotics to a Mid East port, a U.S. agent is killed. Agent Robert Hatfield, called out of retirement to work on the case, learns that a traitor has revealed his identity to the Communists.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 16 - Crypto 40
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    #16 - Crypto 40

    S1:E16

    Scientist David Sparrow, developer of a code machine, is captured and held behind the Iron Curtain. Realizing that Sparrow will be forced to make a similar machine for the U.S.S.R., Captain Early devises a rescue scheme.

    Director:John English
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 17 - The Alaskan Story
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    #17 - The Alaskan Story

    S1:E17

    Attempting to break up a Communist spy ring in Alaska, Captain John Rand enters the penitentiary as a prisoner to become friendly with a Red agent, help him to escape in the hope that he will lead Rand to other members of the ring.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 18 - The Quemoy Story
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    #18 - The Quemoy Story

    S1:E18

    In Macao, Anna Sung, a U.S. agent, is kidnapped by the Reds. Searching for her, Commander Bennett and Mike Perrera, a local police detective, come across a plan to infiltrate and capture Quemoy Island.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 19 - The Espionage Students
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    #19 - The Espionage Students

    S1:E19

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 20 - The Geneva Story
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    #20 - The Geneva Story

    S1:E20

    A former Soviet official is released from prison to represent the U.S.S.R. at the Geneva arms conference. U.S. agent Nick Blake is assigned to learn why.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 21 - The Meeting
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    #21 - The Meeting

    S1:E21

    U.S. spies learn that a new chief of the U.S.S.R. secret police has been appointed. Agent Ralph Drake goes to Austria to meet with Western agents from six Iron Curtain countries.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert C. Dennis

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  22. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 22 - Mightier Than the Sword
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    #22 - Mightier Than the Sword

    S1:E22

    U.S. agent Douglas Kincaid joins the Communist Party and learns that Feodor Mashay, once a top Kremlin official, wants to defect. Kincaid is assigned to help Mashay escape.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert Leslie Bellem

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  23. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 23 - The Gamble
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    #23 - The Gamble

    S1:E23

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Robert Leslie Bellem

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  24. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 24 - Double Agent
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    #24 - Double Agent

    S1:E24

    A British counterintelligence agent tries to track down a spy working for both East and West who is responsible for the shipment of arms to western sympathizers behind the Iron Curtain.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Behind Closed Doors Season 1 Episode 25 - The Antidote
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    #25 - The Antidote

    S1:E25

    Dr. Paul Matley, inventor of a radiation antidote and his wife Laura, are at a night club when Laura is poisoned by Communist agents. Matley is told that Laura will be saved only if he turns over the antidote.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Cape Canaveral Story" is the best rated episode of "Behind Closed Doors". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Paul Wendkos and written by Paul Monash, it aired on 10/2/1958. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Flight to Freedom".