Spycatcher was a BBC television series, starring Bernard Archard, which ran from 1959 to 1961.
It was based on the real-life activities of Dutch counterintelligence officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Oreste Pinto (once called "the greatest living authority on security"),[1] who specialised in the interrogation of suspected spies during World War II and had later published his memoirs under the title Spy Catcher.
In 1960 a board game called Spycatcher inspired by the series was produced by J & L Randall under their Merit trading name.
There was also an earlier BBC Radio series, of 24 episodes, which covered the same cases in radio-drama form.
Unusual for BBC programming of the 1950s and early 60s, the series is thought to still exist, but has yet to be released publicly.