Behind Closed Doors

Behind Closed Doors

1958 1 Seasons 26 Episodes ⭐ 8.0 War & Politics Drama

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, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American missile secrets and proposes steps to prevent further espionage. Behind Closed Doors is based on the files and experiences of Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who offers comments at the end of each segment. Behind Closed Doors, a Screen Gems production, replaced Jackie Cooper's sitcom The People's Choice, followed the NBC quiz show, Twenty-One, and preceded the The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Its competition was The Pat Boone Chevy Show on ABC and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater western anthology series on CBS.

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, 1958, to April 9, 1959, focuses, among other themes, on how the former Soviet Union stole American missile secrets and proposes steps to prevent further espionage. Behind Closed Doors is based on the files and experiences of Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who offers comments at the end of each segment. Behind Closed Doors, a Screen Gems production, replaced Jackie Cooper's sitcom The People's Choice, followed the NBC quiz show, Twenty-One, and preceded the The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show. Its competition was The Pat Boone Chevy Show on ABC and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater western anthology series on CBS.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Cape Canaveral Story

Wayne Hollister, a Florida fisherman, is approached by a Mr. Meyers who rents his boat for one day and demands to be tak

EP 2

Flight to Freedom

Brauer, a German scientist is held prisoner by the communists. The German scientist, forced to serve Russia’s guided m

EP 3

Double Jeopardy

British and U.S. intelligence agents learn that the Soviet ambassador to the U.N. is scheduled to arrive in London and d

EP 4

Mig 9

Lt. Tarkhanov, a Russian test pilot, sent to Germany on secret mission is hampered by Russian agents. The Russian Air Fo

EP 5

Trouble in Test Cell 19

A new jet engine that is being tested for its suitability for mass production blows up on the final test. Exam of the wr

EP 6

Man in the Moon

Clara Koller, a widow, has the important job of handling the budget of a manufacturing company engaged in a secret gover

EP 7

The Nike Story

Captain John Benson is sent to investigate when a fellow officer is murdered trying to trap an enemy agent on a missile

EP 8

It Was Learned on High Authority

Fred Lang, an enemy agent, works as an engineer on a missile base in Los Angeles. He learns that a group of scientists i

EP 9

The Enemy on the Flank

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

EP 10

A Cover of Art

Commander Matson enters Czechoslovakia disguised as an art dealer, part of a plan to get atomic scientist Andrew Fleming

EP 11

The Middle East Story

Jessica Tabor overhears a plot to assassinate King Hussein of Jordan and turns to secret agents James Foster and Harry S

EP 12

The Brioni Story

This episode tells of an American secret operative (Sheldon Lawrence) who uncovers a plot to assassinate Marshal Tito an

EP 13

The Obelisk

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

EP 14

The Germany Story

A Dr. Haas has set himself up as head of German fencing society, whose youthful members he uses to further his own subve

EP 15

The Alkaloid Angle

During an investigation of a shipment of narcotics to a Mid East port, a U.S. agent is killed. Agent Robert Hatfield, ca

EP 16

Crypto 40

Scientist David Sparrow, developer of a code machine, is captured and held behind the Iron Curtain. Realizing that Sparr

EP 17

The Alaskan Story

Attempting to break up a Communist spy ring in Alaska, Captain John Rand enters the penitentiary as a prisoner to become

EP 18

The Quemoy Story

In Macao, Anna Sung, a U.S. agent, is kidnapped by the Reds. Searching for her, Commander Bennett and Mike Perrera, a lo

EP 19

The Espionage Students

EP 20

The Geneva Story

A former Soviet official is released from prison to represent the U.S.S.R. at the Geneva arms conference. U.S. agent Nic

EP 21

The Meeting

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

EP 22

Mightier Than the Sword

U.S. agent Douglas Kincaid joins the Communist Party and learns that Feodor Mashay, once a top Kremlin official, wants t

EP 23

The Gamble

EP 24

Double Agent

A British counterintelligence agent tries to track down a spy working for both East and West who is responsible for the

EP 25

The Antidote

Dr. Paul Matley, inventor of a radiation antidote and his wife Laura, are at a night club when Laura is poisoned by Comm

EP 26

Assignment Prague

In Warsaw, an anti-Communist uprising has somehow gone unreported in the West. A U.S. agent posing as a former American

Popular Cast

Bruce Gordon
Bruce Gordon
Commander Matson