Spyder's Web

Spyder's Web
Starring	Patricia Cutts; Anthony Ainley; Veronica Carlson; Roger Lloyd-Pack
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	50 minutes
Production company(s)	ATV
Release
Original network	ITV
Original release	21 January –; 14 April 1972

Spyder's Web was a British crime drama television series produced by ATV for ITV and broadcast in 1972.[1] It starred Anthony Ainley as Clive Hawksworth and Patricia Cutts as Charlotte "Lottie" Dean as two secret agents working for the mysterious Spyder organisation in the interests of the British government.

In common with many other such series of the time, Spyder's Web adopted a tongue-in-cheek approach to its subject matter. The Spyder organisation used as its cover a down-at-heel film company, Arachnid Films, and only Dean and Hawksworth were in on the secret; the company's other employees, Wallis Ackroyd and Albert Mason, believed the cover to be genuine. Indeed, Dean claimed to have won awards for her documentaries. Hawksworth, the "action man," was a knowing caricature of the steely-eyed, jutting-jawed heroes of former times, and was alleged to have been "steeped in Bulldog Drummond from an early age." (His response: "We were just good friends.") Five of the thirteen episodes were written by Roy Clarke who went on to create Last of the Summer Wine.

The programme ran for just one series, and was released on DVD by Network in 2011; only two episodes exist in colour.

Cast

Patricia Cutts – Lottie Dean[2]
Veronica Carlson – Wallis Ackroyd[2]
Anthony Ainley – Clive Hawksworth[2]
Roger Lloyd-Pack – Albert Mason[2]

Episode list

Episode no.	Title	First transmission (UK)	Director	Writer
1	"Spyder Secures a Main Strand"	21 January 1972	Dennis Vance	Roy Clarke
2	"The Executioners"	28 January 1972	James Gatward	Alfred Shaughnessy
3	"Romance on Wheels"	4 February 1972	James Gatward	Roy Clarke
4	"The Hafiz Affair"	11 February 1972	Dorothy Denham	Roy Clarke
5	"Life at a Price"	18 February 1972	Dennis Vance	Frank Driscoll
6	"Emergency Exit"	25 February 1972	David Wickes	David Ellis
7	"Red Admiral"	3 March 1972	John Cooper	Alan Hackney
8	"Lies and Dolls"	10 March 1972	Dennis Vance	Alfred Shaughnessy
9	"Things That Go Bang in the Night"	17 March 1972	Ian Fordyce	Marc Brandel
10	"An Almost Modern Man"	24 March 1972	Dennis Vance	Roy Clarke
11	"Nobody's Strawberry Fool"	31 March 1972	John Cooper	Robert Holmes
12	"The Prevalence of Skeletons"	7 April 1972	Ian Fordyce	Marc Brandel
13	"Rev Counter"	14 April 1972	Dorothy Denham	Roy Clarke

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References

Tise Vahimagi, British Film Institute, ed. (1994). British television: an illustrated guide. Oxford University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-19-818336-5.
"Spyder's Web". IMDB. Retrieved 13 November 2011.

External links

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[1] Tise Vahimagi, British Film Institute, ed. (1994). British television: an illustrated guide. Oxford University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-19-818336-5.

[IMDB-2] "Spyder's Web". IMDB. Retrieved 13 November 2011.