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January 21, 1972

Season 1

The Arachnid Film Unit run by Lottie Dean (Patricia Cutts) is the cover for an obscure group of intelligence operatives. Licensed to Kill.

01. 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.

January 21, 1972

02. The Executioners

Hawksworth infiltrates a wealthy group of men who imprison, and aim to re-educate, degenerate members of society.

52min
January 28, 1972

03. 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.

51min
February 4, 1972

04. The Hafiz Affair

The Spyder team are manipulated into a plot against the election of a new president in an emergent African state.

50min
February 11, 1972

05. Life at a Price

The Spyder agents uncover murder and fraud in an exclusive maternity home.

48min
February 18, 1972

06. 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.

50min
February 25, 1972

07. Red Admiral

On the pretext of making a film, Lottie and Hawksworth investigate Admiral Manders. Could he be falling under Soviet influence?

52min
March 3, 1972

08. 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.

48min
March 10, 1972

09. 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.

51min
March 17, 1972

10. An Almost Modern Man

Lottie and Hawksworth endeavour to protect the president of a Central American republic from assassination.

51min
March 24, 1972

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.

51min
March 31, 1972

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.

51min
April 7, 1972

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.

52min
April 14, 1972