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The Worst Episodes of Behind Closed Doors

Every episode of Behind Closed Doors ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Behind Closed Doors!

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...
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Worst Episodes Summary

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

  • The Cape Canaveral Story
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    #1 - The Cape Canaveral Story

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1958

    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

  • Flight to Freedom
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    #2 - Flight to Freedom

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1958

    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

  • Double Jeopardy
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    #3 - Double Jeopardy

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1958

    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

  • Mig 9
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    #4 - Mig 9

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1958

    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: N/A

  • Trouble in Test Cell 19
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    #5 - Trouble in Test Cell 19

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1958

    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

    Writer: Jacqueline Hazard, Richard Tregaskis

  • Man in the Moon
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    #6 - Man in the Moon

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1958

    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

  • The Nike Story
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    #7 - The Nike Story

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1958

    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

  • It Was Learned on High Authority
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    #8 - It Was Learned on High Authority

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/27/1958

    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

    Writer: Stanley Niss, Herbert Abbott Spiro

  • The Enemy on the Flank
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    #9 - The Enemy on the Flank

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/1958

    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

  • A Cover of Art
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    #10 - A Cover of Art

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/11/1958

    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

    Writer: George Fass, Gertrude Fass

  • The Middle East Story
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    #11 - The Middle East Story

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/18/1958

    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

  • The Brioni Story
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    #12 - The Brioni Story

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1958

    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

  • The Obelisk
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    #13 - The Obelisk

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/1959

    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: N/A

  • The Germany Story
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    #14 - The Germany Story

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1959

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Alkaloid Angle
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    #15 - The Alkaloid Angle

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/22/1959

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Crypto 40
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    #16 - Crypto 40

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/29/1959

    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: N/A

  • The Alaskan Story
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    #17 - The Alaskan Story

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/5/1959

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Quemoy Story
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    #18 - The Quemoy Story

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/12/1959

    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.

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    Writer: N/A

  • The Espionage Students
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    #19 - The Espionage Students

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/19/1959

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  • The Geneva Story
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    #20 - The Geneva Story

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/26/1959

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Meeting
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    #21 - The Meeting

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/5/1959

    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: N/A

    Writer: Robert C. Dennis

  • Mightier Than the Sword
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    #22 - Mightier Than the Sword

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/12/1959

    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: N/A

    Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem

  • The Gamble
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    #23 - The Gamble

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/19/1959

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: Robert Leslie Bellem

  • Double Agent
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    #24 - Double Agent

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/26/1959

    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.

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    Writer: N/A

  • The Antidote
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    #25 - The Antidote

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/2/1959

    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.

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