Spyder's Web
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| Spyder's Web | |
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| Starring | Patricia Cutts Anthony Ainley Veronica Carlson Roger Lloyd-Pack Peter Sallis[1] |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
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| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Production company | ATV |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| 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.[2] 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 an ironic 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 created and wrote Last of the Summer Wine. The programme ran for just one series.
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Cast
- Patricia Cutts as Lottie Dean
- Veronica Carlson as Wallis Ackroyd
- Anthony Ainley as Clive Hawksworth
- Roger Lloyd-Pack as Albert Mason
- Peter Sallis as Grovnik
- Henri Szeps as Policeman
