Season 1
Season 1 • 1972
0The Arachnid Film Unit run by Lottie Dean (Patricia Cutts) is the cover for an obscure group of intelligence operatives. Licensed to Kill.
Episodes
1. Spyder Secures a Main Strand
After a British agent fleeing across a Communist border is picked up by car, and shot, the Web weaves its way into the hunt for a traitor. A reshuffle of British security is called for and Charlotte accepts the challenge.
1972-01-21 • ? min
2. The Executioners
Hawksworth infiltrates a wealthy group of men who imprison, and aim to re-educate, degenerate members of society.
1972-01-28 • 52 min
3. Romance on Wheels
Lottie and Hawksworth join members of a dating agency on a trip behind the Iron Curtain to discover how certain candidates are being replaced by Soviet agents.
1972-02-04 • 51 min
4. The Hafiz Affair
The Spyder team are manipulated into a plot against the election of a new president in an emergent African state.
1972-02-11 • 50 min
5. Life at a Price
The Spyder agents uncover murder and fraud in an exclusive maternity home.
1972-02-18 • 48 min
6. Emergency Exit
Spyder's Web (1972) A Spyder agent is substituted for one of the opposition's to discover how the enemy escape route works. The trail leads to the Viscount Employment Agency run by Kalashnkov - whom adores the British aristocracy.
1972-02-25 • 50 min
7. Red Admiral
On the pretext of making a film, Lottie and Hawksworth investigate Admiral Manders. Could he be falling under Soviet influence?
1972-03-03 • 52 min
8. Lies and Dolls
Spyder's Web (1972) A message from a myna bird alerts Lottie to the death of an MP, which then leads to Eastern European puppeteers who are the front for a people-smuggling organization.
1972-03-10 • 48 min
9. Things That Go Bang in the Night
An inventor of bizarre killing-machines leaves a lethal legacy, which his eccentric relations compete to get their hands on.
1972-03-17 • 51 min
10. An Almost Modern Man
Lottie and Hawksworth endeavour to protect the president of a Central American republic from assassination.
1972-03-24 • 51 min
11. Nobody's Strawberry Fool
A bizarre story of a body preserved in the Swiss snow since 1914 - which has now gone missing in transit.
1972-03-31 • 51 min
12. The Prevalence of Skeletons
What is behind the killing of a number of prominent individuals, why did they withdraw their life savings on the day of their deaths, and why have their corpses aged so dramatically? Lottie and Hawksworth investigate.
1972-04-07 • 51 min
13. Rev Counter
Lottie and Hawksworth infiltrate an eccentric group led by a vicar who aim to liberate the Isle of Wight from the English - by armed force.
1972-04-14 • 52 min
