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Foreign Intrigue
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Episode Guide
version 4.0
last update July 2003
(ep # 130 guest cast)
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
John King, New York (EGans64636@aol.com)
Bertil Lundgren, Sweden (bertil.lundgren@swipnet.se)
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references:
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"An exciting television drama played against the tense
background of present-day (1950's)Europe"

European-Filmed Cold War Adventure series 1951-55
3 formats with 3 syndication titles - total 156 episodes x 30 min

(1) 'Dateline: Europe' (1951-53) (78 episodes) [001-078]
(2) 'Overseas Adventures' (1953-54) (39 episodes) [079-117]
(3) 'Cross Current' (1954-55) (39 episodes) [118-156]

Theme music by Charles Norman and Ervin Drake (all 3 formats)

Directors include:
MC = directed by Marcel Cravenne
EL = directed by Eugene Lourie/ Gene Lourie
JG = directed by Jack Gage
SP = directed by Steve Previn
LEK= directed by Lars-Eric Kjellgren
SR = directed by Sheldon Reynolds
HL = directed by Hans Lagerkvist
TY = directed by Tom Younger
Format 1   Format 2   Format 3
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FOREIGN INTRIGUE format (1) syndicated as DATELINE: EUROPE
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Sheldon Reynolds production
Official Films Release
for
U.S. Syndication
Assistant Director John Padovano (eps 1-45)
Associate Producer John Padovano (eps 46-156)

European mystery-adventure series 1951-53 78 episodes x 30 min bw
starring
Jerome Thor as Robert Cannon (1951-53)
Sydna Scott as Helen Davis (1951-53)
John Padovano as TonyForest (1951-55) (also doubled as associate producer)

recurring:
Bernard Farrell as Steve Godfrey, Paris Correspondent
(ep #42 Embassy, ep #43 Montmorency, ep #51 Gold, ep#54 Passports)

Background: throughout Europe. The experiences of Robert Cannon and Helen
Davis, foreign correspondents for "Consolidated News". Stories relate to
their attempts to infiltrate and expose espionage rings.


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[000] Foreign Intrigue:
was there a pilot episode???????????

Airdates from Chicago Run:-

1.01 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE TRIAL OF MR. KESSEL (Jerome Thor)
18Oct51 Chicago
After Robert Cannon has his interview with the former president
of an occupied European country, a chain of unscheduled events
follow.
Alternative Synopsis:
Robert Cannon becomes involved in the trial and identfication
of a man accused of war crimes while heading a prisoner of
war camp.

1.02 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE CIGARETTE LIGHTER (Jerome Thor)
25Oct51 Chicago
Robert Cannon finds his life threatened by agents of two border
nations until he discovers a way to write the truth to his
news service.
Alternative Synopsis:
Foreign agents double cross their own traitor-spy to make it
appear that the local government is unstable. Their object:
to "liberate" the country. An innocent girl is murdered to
uncover a plot.

1.03 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
CONCERT SELECTION (Jerome Thor)
1Nov51 Chicago
The mysterious transporting of a piano from one country to
another brings a horrifying murder. Robert Cannon meets an
old friend, an attractive young girl, who is now a famous
pianist in Europe and finds a case of murder. He's suspicious
of the girls manager whom she seems to fear.

1.04 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
PARIS TRAIN (aka "Fourth Courier") (Jerome Thor + Sydna Scott)
8Nov51 Chicago airdate
Guest Cast:
Stig Järrel ........ Monsieur Roux
Eric von Gegerfeldt ...... Polev
Einar Hylander ........ Conductor
Technical supervisor Shirley Mellner
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effects Bertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Erland von Koch
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
Two U.S. correspondents discover a dead man's body on a train
and trace a murderer.

1.05 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
LANGUAGE SCHOOL (Sydna Scott)
15Nov51 Chicago
When the police refuse to believe foreign correspondent,
Helen Davis (Synda Scott), she takes on the search for a
group of dangerouse men in Hamburg, Germany. They threaten
a plot to blackmail the world through the use of biological
warfare.

1.06 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
SEARCH FOR A TELEPHONE (Jerome Thor)
aka - Diamond Fence
22Nov51 Chicago
Guest Cast:
Erik Strandmark ....... Hagel
Sten Lindgren ....... Laurent
Cecile Ossbahr ........... Girl
Ivar Wahlgren ...... Hotel Manager
Viveca Serlachius ...... Receptionist
Alexander von Baumgarten ...... Barteneder
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effectsBertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Charles Norman
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
Robert Cannon's assignment to cover an ordinary convention
in Brussels winds up with two corpses. While there, he is
mistaken by a black marketeer for a contact man to receive
some stolen diamonds.

1.07 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
AT THE AIRPORT (set in Switzerland) (Jerome Thor+John Padovano)
29Nov51 Chicago airdate
Guest Cast:
Ulf Palme ....... Bartel
Stella Linden ...... Hotel Clerk
Leif Hedenberg ...... Bellboy
Laila Gumpel ....... Girl
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effectsBertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Erik Baumann
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Oscar Rosander
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
Robert Cannon decides to recreate the final actions of a
fellow reporter who was murdered in Switzerland, while
gathering material on Europe's black markets.

1.08 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
(international counterfeiters)(set in Paris)
(Jerome Thor + Sydna Scott)
6Dec51 Chicago
Foreign correspendents Robert Cannon and Helen Davis,
trap a band of international counterfeiters operating in
Paris.

1.09 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE FLEA MARKET (Jerome Thor)
13Dec51 Chicago
Foreign correspondent Robert Cannon checks into a fashionable
Parisian hotel and finds and unexpected letter with a $10
bill enclosed waiting for him.

1.10 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
TWINS ON A SHIP (Jerome Thor)
20Dec51 Chicago
Robert Cannon is returning to Europe from a trip to Iceland,
aboard a ship on the Baltic Sea bound for Oslo, Sweden.
He believes it to be a quiet ship, when he suddenly hears a
scream and becomes involved in case of murder, seeking a man
who murdered his twin brother.

1.11 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
RETURN TO FREEDOM (Jerome Thor)
27Dec51 Chicago
Original story by Paul Monash
Guest Cast:
Frank Sundström ....... Chernik
Sheldon Reynolds ........ Dave
Helge Hagerman ......... Brommer
Håkan Westergren ....... Minister
Robert Cannon is invited to an occupied country for an
interview with a fellow reporter who has been convicted
as a spy. He learns that the scribe has been forced to confess
his guilt and is protecting a girl.

1.12 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
BERLIN TO FRANKFURT (Jerome Thor and Sydna Scott)
3Jan52 Chicago airdate
Original story by Paul Monash
Directed by NOT KNOWN
Guest Cast:
Holger Löwenadler ........ Essen
Sven Lindberg ........ Tourraine
Ann Marie Wiman ........ Stewardess
Associate Director Åke Ohberg
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effects Bertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Erik Baumann
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
Robert Cannon takes a plane trip with two convicted black
marketeers and gets an exlusive inteview with death.
The two pilots are killed while the plane is in automatic
pilot. Cannon realizes he should have headed the advice
a passenger, when her "woman's intuition" predicted what was
to happen.

1.13 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE LETTER (Jerome Thor)
10Jan52 Chicago airdate
Original story by Manheim Shapiro
Directed by NOT KNOWN
Guest Cast:
Åke Claesson ........ Kestler
Stig Järrel ......... Sergius
Henrik Schildt ..... Inspector
Olof Bergström ....... Zimmer
Assistant Director John Padovano
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effects Bertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Nathan Görling
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Oscar Rosander
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
Robert Cannon is assigned to cover the murder of a prime
minister's secretary. She is killed when she discovers an
attempted robbery of a sealed envelope from a high ranking
official. He discovers the drastic measures used
to sway an unstable country's political affiliations, and
outwits leaders in the opposition party. The criminals with
the document threaten to use it to alienate the present
form of government ties with Atlantic Pact Nations.

1.14 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
UNDERGROUND (Sydna Scott)
17Jan52 Chicago
Helen Davis is invited by the security police to expose
war criminals living in Lausanne, Switzerland.

1.15 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE RADIO MESSAGE (Jerome Thor)
possible aka - "Sealed Country"
Original story by Paul Monash
Directed by NOT KNOWN
24Jan52 Chicago.
Guest Cast:
Rudolf Wendbladh ....... Utrecht
Sture Djerf ............ Posen
Stig Ohlin and Kenneth Pawlo ....... Courriers
Harriet Andersson ........ Girl
Gösta Prüzelius ........ Announcer
Assistent Director John Padovano
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effects Bertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Erik Baumann
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Oscar Rosander
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
Robert Cannon finds himself and an entire country held
to ransom by two spies who have a secret messsage to
get out of the country.

1.16 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE POLITICAL MURDER (Jerome Thor)
31Jan52 Chicago
Robert Cannon discovers how an aggressor nation is attempting
start a revolt in a border coutry. Subversive elements try
to overthrow the government using fear and hysteria of the
people as a political weapon.

1.17 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
FOOD HIJACKING (Jerome Thor)
7Feb52 Chicago
A former newpaperman discovers that racketeers have confiscated
U.S. relief supplies destined for East Berlin. Robert Cannon
learns of this discovery and hastens to warn the man when he
fears his life may be in danger. An unknown brother, a hostage,
and a phone call reverses the entire situation.

1.18 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
SUN LAMP (Jerome Thor)
14Feb52 Chicago
Original story by Paul Monash
Director Åke Ohberg
Guest Cast:
Åke Ohberg ...... Killer
Eric Strandmark ...... Damon
Erik Berglund ..... Scholten
Assistant Director John Padovano
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effects Bertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Erik Baumann
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Oscar Rosander
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
A chance meeting between Robert Cannon and a friend on a train
leads to the theft of valuable secrets. Robert Cannon is
suspected of the theft and ends up in jail.

1.19 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE LIVING CORPSE (Jerome Thor)
aka - Escape to Murder
21Feb52 Chicago airdate
Original story by Paul Monash
Directed by NOT KNOWN
Guest Cast:
John Padovano ...... Martin (regular - normally as Tony Forest)
Tord Stål ....... Lautrec
Håkan Westergren ....... Warden
Fylgia Zadig ........ Waitress
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effects Bertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Erik Baumann
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
A convicted man condemned to death seeks an interview with
Robert Cannon and asks his help in retrieving a certain
envelope that will prove his innocence.

1.20 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE STEEL BARON (Jerome Thor)
28Feb52 Chicago airdate
Original story by George and Gertrude Fass
Directed by NOT KNOWN
Guest Cast:
Gunnel Broström ..... Lisa
Ragnar Arvedsson ..... Kulenberg
Sten Gesster ........ Otto
Assistant Director John Padovano
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effects Bertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Erik Baumann
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Oscar Rosander
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
When an Ex-Nazi steel magnate hears that Robert Cannon is
writing a series of damaging articles regarding the disposition
of several steel mills, he invites the reporter to his castle
on the Rhine.

1.21 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE ROULETTE WHEEL (Jerome Thor)
7Mar52 Chicago
After accepting a mysterious suggestion to play a stranger's
10,000 franc note on "red five" at a French Riviera casino,
Robert Cannon meets a doctor and a beutiful girl, and
discovers that a roulette table can spin both fortune and
murder.

1.22 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
COUNTERFIET PASSPORTS (Jerome Thor)
(not to be confused with #54)
possible aka - Forged Passports
14Mar52 Chicago
The Associated News Service is informed that Europe's
black market chief is in Hamburg. They send their top
foreign correspondent to get an interview. He stumbles
upon a counterfeit passport racket.

1.23 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE MUSTACHE (Jerome Thor)
21Mar52 Chicago
Robert Cannon attends the convention of the "International
Society of Amateur Magicians", in Paris. French secret police
request his aid in breaking up a secret meeting of
international spies posing as magicians Disquised as one of them
and learns there is a lot more to a successful impersonation
than wearing a mustache. He is expected to pull atomic secrets
instead of rabbits out of his hat.

1.24 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE RAILROAD BOXCAR (Jerome Thor)
28Mar52 Chicago
Robert Cannon covers a chemical explosion and gets suspicious
when the chemical plant is shut down without investigation.
He learns that a scientist conducting experiments of
international value was killed, and becomes suspicious when
and an abandoned railroad track, near to the isloated plant,
shows signs of use.

1.25 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE SLEEPER'S VILLAGE (Jerome Thor)
aka - Sleepy Village
4Apr52 Chicago
guest cast:
Willy Peter
Peter Lindgren
Torsten Lillecronin
Lennart Ahlquist
Robert Cannon is summond to an isolated village in Europe
by two former circus performers, a clown and a midget.
Cannon is led to the bedside of a dying man by the midget,
but when he returns he finds another family occupying the
shack.

1.26 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE SKI CHASE (Jerome Thor)
11Apr52 Chicago
Robert Cannon helps a woman attaché from an occupied country
escape across the Italian border to freedom

1.27 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE MINOR ELECTION (Jerome Thor)
18Apr52 Chicago
When covering a German election, Robert Cannon is tricked into
staying at the home of a Nazi candidate and held incommunicado.

1.28 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE GHOST IN THE VALLEY (Jerome Thor)
25Apr52 Chicago
Robert Cannon encounters a legend of a ghost in a small village,
and sets out to disprove it.

1.29 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE NOOSE (Jerome Thor)
1May52 Chicago airdate
Original story by Tom Younger
Directed by NOT KNOWN
Guest Cast:
Hampe Faustman ....... Steiner
Frank Sundström ....... Hoffman
Jan Molander ......... Conrad
Stig Järrel ....... Lindgaard
Assistant Director John Padovano
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effects Bertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Erland von Koch
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Oscar Rosander
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
Robert Cannon, covering a routine news story in Stockholm, is
thwarted at every turn when he tries to check out the
re-appearance of a German colonel, supposedly hung for war
crimes in 1947.

1.30 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE PERFECT PLAN (Sydna Scott)
8May52 Chicago
Original story by Paul Monash
Directed by NOT KNOWN
Guest Cast:
Lauritz Falk ........ Turec
Hampe Faustman ........ Karzag
Rune Carlsten ......... Ferenc
Stig Olin .......... Waiter
Assistant Director John Padovano
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effects Bertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Erland von Koch
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
*
The government uses Helen Davis to procure a list of names,
and a poker party provides an exciting crisis to her problem.

1.31 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
COMMITTED TO MEMORY (Jerome Thor)
15May52 Chicago airdate
Guest Cast:
Alan Blair ........ Blane
Erik Strandmark ...... Wald
Olof Widgren ........ Man
Gordon Löwenadler ........ Zorro
Assistant Director John Padovano
In order to keep a secret formula out of the wrong hands, Robert
Cannon memorizes it and is forced to join a night club act
in trying to escape.

1.32 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
ISOTOPES (Jerome Thor)
22May52 Chicago
Armed with a geiger counter, Robert Cannon and the police
attempt to find the murderer of a professor by discovering the
stolen radioactive isotopes which render death to the posessor.

1.33 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE SAWMILL (Jerome Thor)
29May52 Chicago
Robert Cannon seeks an interview with a beleagered Polish
scientist.

1.34 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE TREATY (Jerome Thor)
5Jun52 Chicago
Robert Cannon becomes involved in a question of whether a
small European nation should join an allied mutual aid pact.
Small nations are the pawns of the larger ones and in this
case a request from a small nation is to be voted on, but the
Prime Minister's vote leads to murder.

1.35 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE BLIND MAN (Jerome Thor)
12Jun52 Chicago
Robert Cannon is involved with a former concentration camp
inmate who takes it upon himself to settle the score with
the remaining Nazis who persecuted him during the war.

1.36 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE ART TREASURES (Sydna Scott)
19Jun52 Chicago
Helen Davis investigates the dilettantes who ruthlessly
pilfered Europe's art treasures for a selfish Fascist leader.

1.37 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE IRON CURTAIN (Jerome Thor)
26Jun52 pre-empted (airdate unknown)
Robert Cannon and a fellow correspondent are permitted to
travel behind the Iron Curtain. While there, they are asked
for proof of innocence of an important Eastern European to the West.

1.38 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
THE TRAITOR (Jerome Thor)
Robert Cannon invetigates a man who is hunted by the police
and hated by everyone.

1.39 [--] Foreign Intrigue:
(no details)

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season 2 airdates from
WCAU Philadelphia USA, Saturdays 10:00 pm

2.01 [040] Foreign Intrigue:
HEIDELBERG (Jerome Thor)
40ct52
Robert Cannon uses his wits and fists as he writes a story
of saber scars and neo fascism in Germany's famous
Heidelberg University.

2.02 [041] Foreign Intrigue:
GAUTIER CASTLE (Jerome Thor)
11Oct52
The key to this mystery is a 13th century key, which alone
can open a parliament and save a people's liberty.

2.03 [042] Foreign Intrigue:
THE EMBASSY (Jerome Thor, Sydna Scott, Bernard Farrell)
18Oct52
Robert Cannon attempts to save the life of a ruling prince
who owns Near Eastern Oil.

2.04 [043] Foreign Intrigue:
MONTMORENCY (Bernard Farrell)
25Oct52
Steve Godfrey, Paris correspondent (Bernard Farrell), is aksed
top act as bait for the chief of a spy ring. He accepts the
dangerous assignment with the understanding that if he is
recognized as an imposter, rescue may come too late.

2.05 [044] Foreign Intrigue:
OCCUPIED COUNTRY (Jerome Thor)
1Nov52
Robert Cannon is determined that the reward for courage will
not be death, and employs both Cupid and the "power of the
press" to fight the avenging police.

2.06 [045] Foreign Intrigue:
GENEVA (Jerome Thor)
8Nov52
Robert Cannon finds the attention to routine pays off with the
lead to a front page story of hi-jacked anti-Nazi funds. He
finds that guns seem more necessary than typewriters in
trying to save the pretty girl and get the story.

2.07 [046] Foreign Intrigue:
THE NEW ORDER (Jerome Thor + Sydna Scott + John Padovano)
15Nov52
Guest Cast:
Frank Sundström ...... Bremen
Gordon Löwenadler ........ Clerk
Erik Berglund ....... Warden
Assistant Director John Padovano
Production Manager Bengt Järrel
Director of Photography and special effects Bertil Palmgren
Music composed and conducted by Erik Baumann
Set design Arne Åkermark
Film Editor Oscar Rosander
Sound recording Bengt Runsten
Robert Cannon takes a hand in the double cross when a fellow
journalist is murdered by the henchman of a would-be Fuehrer.

2.08 [047] Foreign Intrigue:
DIAMONDS (Jerome Thor)
aka - Diamond Smuggling
22Nov52
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by George and Gertrude Fass
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
Gisele Préville ........... Carien
Yves Brainville ......... Van Roon
Georges Brehat .......... Kester
Jacqueline Courat ........ Marietje
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Raymond Clunie
Production Manager Sacha Kamenka
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Raymond Druart
Sound Equipment Poste Parisien
Engineer Emile Lagarde
Dialogue Director Richard Rosenbloom
Robert Cannon's reputation for honesty puts him on the spot
when Amsterdam's chief of police trust him to uncover and trap
an international smuggling ring. He is saved from death by
a sneak thief.

2.09 [048] Foreign Intrigue:
PARIS (Jerome Thor)
29Nov52
Produced, written and directed by Sheldon Reynolds
Guest Cast:
Renée Barell ....... Claire
Georges Hubert ........ Otto
Marcel Journet ....... Singer
Gilles Queant ....... Docteur
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Raymond Clunie
Production Manager Sacha Kamenka
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Raymond Druart
Sound Equipment Poste Parisien
Engineer Emile Lagarde
Robert Cannon receives the key to the lawless activities of
former Nazis when he receives a letter from a female admirer.

2.10 [049] Foreign Intrigue:
FREE GERMANY (Jerome Thor and Sydna Scott )
6Dec52
aka - possibly the "The Voice" (or "The Bridge" ?)
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by George and Gertrude Fass
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
Jacques Francois ......... Hans
Ivan Desny ............. Henri
Jo Dest ............... Walter
Pierre Gay ............ Ernest
Richard Rosenbloom ........ Rudolph
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sacha Kamenka
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Raymond Druart
Sound Equipment Poste Parisien
Engineer Tony Leenhardt
Dialogue Director Richard Rosenbloom

(2 synopsis - possibly 2 different episodes)
synopsis 1:
Robert Cannon is given 24 hours to prove his innocence when
a man impersonating him murders two members of a free thinking
organization
synopsis 2:
A voice that nobody recognizes and a man he thought was his
friend lead Robert Cannon to a secret organization fighting
all forms of totalitarism in Germany. Robert Cannon attempts
to interview him.

2.11 [050] Foreign Intrigue:
THE URANIUM MINE (Sydna Scott)
13Dec52
An "accidental" mine disaster starts correspondent Helen
Davis on the trail of a story based on a series of Uranium
hi-jackings.

2.12 [051] Foreign Intrigue:
GOLD (Bernard Farrell)(Jerome Thor NOT in this one)
20Dec52
Produced, Adapted and Directed by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by George and Gertrude Fass
Guest Cast:
Bernard Farrell ....... Steve Godfrey, reporter
Dora Doll ....... Irene
Lou Van Burg ........ Sokoloff
Louis Mercier ......... Fouget
Mauricet ........... Methot
Georges Flateau .......... Grenet
*
Dora Doll's gowns by Carven
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sacha Kamenka
Film Editor Francoise Javet
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Raymond Druart
Sound Equipment Poste Parisien
Engineer Tony Leenhardt
*
"United International News" news correspondent Steve Godfrey
starts to write a story abour a financial known as the "Man
with the Midas Touch", but learns from a garrulous barber,
that there's more to his wealth than meets the eye.

2.13 [052] Foreign Intrigue:
THE MEDITERRANEAN (Jerome Thor)
27Dec52
Robert Cannon finds that shipboard friends made en route to
North Africa are actually "finger men" for an international
sabotage ring. When they put the finger on him hue uses both
hands in a free-for-all fight.

alternative synopsis (possibly from a different episode)
Robert Cannon becomes an unwitting candidate for plans to
destroy allied airdromes. A beautiful blond with perfect
marksmanship helps him out.

2.14 [053] Foreign Intrigue:
FIVE CIGARETTES (Jerome Thor)
10Jan53
Robert Cannon is enjoying a night out in his favorite Parisian
bistro, when a beautiful blonde spy spoils hgis evening by
slipping a gold cigarette case in his pocket by mistake.

2.15 [054] Foreign Intrigue:
PASSPORTS (Bernard Farrell)
24Jan53
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
(not to be confused with #22)
guest cast:
Bernard Farrell ....... Steve Godfrey, reporter
Steve Godfrey tries to help a fellow American regain his
passport in Paris and discovers the existance of an
international ring of passport thieves.

2.16 [055] Foreign Intrigue:
THE NEW DEMOCRACY (Sydna Scott)
31Jan53
Helen Scott seeks out to see the sights in a new democracy,
but instead witnesses a prime minister's assassination. When
she reports the assassin's identity she nominates herself
as the next target for death.

2.17 [056] Foreign Intrigue:
THE CODE ROOM (Jerome Thor)
aka - The Code Book
14Mar53
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
Bengt Blomgren ....... Fontaine
Naj-Britt Thörn ......... Marie
Eric Strandmark ........ Gruebl
Gordon Löwenadler ...... Debeg
*
Original story by George and Gertrude Fass
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Lennart Unnerstad
*
Robert Cannon displays a newsman's characteristic impatience
official's red tape and finds himself the chief suspect when
officials lose a top secret code book as a result of
unofficial haste.

2.18 [057] Foreign Intrigue:
THE FRENCH ZONE (Jerome Thor)
11Apr53
Robert Cannon is called to uncover the hiding place of an
escaped Nazi storm trooper who starts a reign of terror
by preying on French officials.

2.19 [058] Foreign Intrigue:
THE BORDER ZONE (Jerome Thor + Sydna Scott)
aka - The Death Zone / aka - Zone of Death
17Jan53
prod no. FA-58
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Robert Cannon and Helen Davis are enjoying a day off in
Stockholm when they see a famous General and his brother
holding a furtive meeting on the waterfront. Curiosity
about the man's escape from behind the Iron Curtain entangles
them all in the deadly tentacles of the secret police of an
Iron Curtain country, and their investigations point to a
kidnap-blackmail scheme.

2.20 [059] Foreign Intrigue:
GLASS (Jerome Thor)
aka - Bohemian Glass
prod. no. FA-59
14Feb53
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Sound waves and an unstable glass vase protect Robert Cannon
when he slips behind the Iron Curtain to bring out the
formula for a super explosive bequethed to the Western
democracies by a great scientist.

2.21 [060] Foreign Intrigue:
LINETSKI FOREST (Jerome Thor)
aka - The Linetski Forest Massacre
prod. no. FA-60
3Jan53
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by George and Gertrude Fass
Directed by Lars-Eric Kjellgren
Guest Cast:
Eva Dahlbeck ........ Nurse (Soyzia)
Tord Stål ........ Zapocki
Gösta Prüzelius ........ Kogel
Henrik Schildt ........ Storm
Rudolf Wendbladh ......... Judge
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Lennart Unnerstad
*
Robert Cannon is about to report on an International tribunal's
deliberations of a reported massacre of prisoners. They fail
to uncover any evidence, but a nurse gives Robert Cannon a
clue to hidden evidence.

2.22 [061] Foreign Intrigue:
HOSTAGES (Jerome Thor)
aka - Re-union in West Berlin / aka - Re-union in Berlin
prod. no. FA-61
28Feb53
Directed by Hans Lagerkvist
guest cast:
Eva Dahlbeck .... Hilda
The chance of rescue of a West Berlin waif leads Robert Cannon
behind the Iron Curtain to win a father for the boy and a
rocket scientist for the West.


2.23 [062] Foreign Intrigue:
THE FALL OF TROY (Jerome Thor)
prod. no. FA-62
4Apr53
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Robert Cannon is in the midst of a conflict concerning the
guilt of a former underground leader charged with murder and
robbery of an American agent.

2.24 [063] Foreign Intrigue:
MONTEVILLE (Jerome Thor)
aka - Robin Hood of Monteville
prod. no. FA-63
21Feb53
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Robert Cannon develops an unhealthy curiosity about the
career of a counterfeit Robin Hood and becomes the pawn in
the outlaws games with the police.

2.25 [064] Foreign Intrigue:
GUIDED MISSILES (Jerome Thor)
aka - A Piece of Tape
prod no. FA-64
7Feb53
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Robert Cannon uses scissors and paste to help the regular police
of a democratic nation uncover the kidnappers of a top defense
scientist.
alternative synopsis:
Professor Norin, a brilliant scientist, has spent years in
preparing a super guided missile for the defense of his country,
but destroys the plans when a would-be dictator attempts to
seize them.

2.26 [065] Foreign Intrigue:
THE SCIENCE CONFERENCE (Sydna Scott)
aka - The Man with a Tic
prod. no. FA-65
7Mar53
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
An Iron Curtain country's top spy on the trail of scientific
secrets, involves correspondent Helen Davis in an exciting
game of cat and mouse as he wangles his way into the secret
conference. He claims he is an escapee who can identify
Europe's top spy and steals the secrets of the best scientists
in the West, while leading a spy hunt himself.

2.27 [066] Foreign Intrigue:
THE ALPS (Jerome Thor)
18Apr53
Robert Cannon discovers a front page story in a snowbound
French chalet when he links a missing plan with the
disappearance of Mediterranean defense plans and a plane
crash.

2.28 [067] Foreign Intrigue:
VALLADON (Jerome Thor)
aka - Fatal Return
prod. no. FA-67
21Mar53
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Robert Cannon's search for a missing war hero search for a
missing war hero reveals a seven year-old fraud and culminates
in the release of the man wriongly acused of murder.

2.29 [068] Foreign Intrigue:
MAJOR VON WEBBER
prod. no. FA-68
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
(no details)

2.30 [069] Foreign Intrigue:
REVENGE (Sydna Scott)
aka - The Strangers
prod no. FA-69
28Mar53
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Joseph Victor
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
Gunnar Sjöberg ....... Bundy
Olof Bergström ...... Dorland
Martin Söderhjelm ...... Vanderson
Inge Jansén ...... Max
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
*
A former prisoner of war is determined to carry out a private
execution, and a traitor is the intended victim. He uses
Helen Davis as a foil
-----------
alternative synopsis - possibly for ep# 64 or #65:-
[--] Foreign Intrigue:
A murderded man is found in the room next to Helen Davis'
in a small European hotel. Because she can identify a man
leaving the room, she almost becomes a victim herself

------------

2.31 [070] Foreign Intrigue:
THE TROOP TRAIN (Jerome Thor)
25Apr53
possible - aka - Spy Plane Story
possible - prod. no. FA-70
possible - Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Robert Cannon changes his travel plans when at a chance meeting
at Frankfurt Airport he encounters an ambitious West German
agitator.

2.32 [071] Foreign Intrigue:
THE BELL TOWER (Jerome Thor)
aka - Bacillus X
prod. no. FA-71
9May53
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
The potential terrors of a super germ, powerful enough to
destroy an entire city, become real when the germs are stolen
and used to threaten an entire government.

2.33 [072] Foreign Intrigue:
THE VILLARDO LEGEND (Jerome Thor)
aka - Brothers at Bay
2May53
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Paul Monash
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
Roger Treville ........ Count
Lou Van Burg ........ Achille
Ariane Dufy ......... Odette
Le Beal .......... Butler
Jean Michaud ........ Inspector
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sacha Kamenka
Film Editor Gerard Bensdorf
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Raymond Druart
Sound Equipment Poste Parisien
Engineer Tony Leenhardt
Dialogue Director Richard Rosenbloom
*
Robert Cannon accepts an invitation to a Spanish nobleman's
guest house to get a political story, but finds his
headlines written in poison.

2.34 [073] Foreign Intrigue:
THE D.P. CAMP (Jerome Thor + Sydna Scott)
aka ? - The Passport
16May53
Helen Davis' good intentions get her kidnapped, while Robert
Cannon skis for pleasure.

2.35 [074] Foreign Intrigue:
THE STOLEN BID (Sydna Scott)
aka - The Opera Ticket
23May53
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Joseph Victor
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
Georg Lökkeberg .......... Dorstein
Martin Söderhjelm ......... Andersen
Bengt Blomgren ............ Rico
Leif Amble-Naess ......... Kempi
Fylgia Zadig ........... Dora
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
Miss Scott's Dresses by Jacques Hein
*
Shocked by the brutal attack on a contruction company executive,
Helen Davis investigates retarded defense projects and sets
out to learn the whys and wherefores of stolen contruction
bids

2.36 [075] Foreign Intrigue:
THE COFFIN (Jerome Thor)
aka - The Corpse Goes West
possible aka -Buried Alive
30May53
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Tom Younger
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
Hasse Ekman ......... Socrates
Gunnel Broström ........ Eva
Georg Lökkeberg ........ Zatoff
Agnes Waldenström ........ Chambermaid
Alan Blair .......... George
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Robert Cannon is given the job of escorting the body of a
disinterred journalist from behind the Iron Curtain and starts
a grim game of hide and seek.

2.37 [076] Foreign Intrigue:
THE CAMERA (Jerome Thor + John Padovano)
aka - The Bomb
6Jun53
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by David and Judith Bublick
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
William Langford ......... Russ
Erik Strandmark ....... DeLisle
Gunnel Broström ........ Nicole
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Robert Cannon's press pass to a meeting of high government
officials nearly becomes his death warrant when a neo-fascist
group plans a coup with Cannon as the go-between.

2.xx [---] Foreign Intrigue:
THE LAKE (Jerome Thor)
aka? - The Golden Bait
13Jun53
Robert Cannon baits a hook with gold when he responds to a
pretty girl's call for help, but almost ends up a victim
of his own wiles.

2.xx [---] Foreign Intrigue:
THE DIAMOND BULLET (Jerome Thor)
aka - War Criminal
20Jun53
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Sydney Shelley
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
Margareta Fahlén ......... Gerda
Willy Peters ........... Arthur
Bengt Blomgren ......... Inspector
Rangvi Lindblad ........... Woman
Willie Sjöberg ......... Croupier
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Robert Cannon discovers that he is allergic to diamonds when
they are in the hands of an explosive model.

2.39 [078] Foreign Intrigue:
THE OPERATING ROOM (Jerome Thor)
aka - The Blunted Scalpel
27Jun53
Produced and Adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Joseph Victor
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
Georg Lökkeberg .......... Valdemar
Holger Löwenadler .......... Renke
Henrik Schildt ........... Speaker
Jan Molander ........... Ballard
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
A famous surgeon must make the choice between his own life
and that of the man who is his country's sole defense against
dictatorship.
Format 1   Format 2   Format 3
---------------------------------------------------------
FOREIGN INTRIGUE format (2) syndicated as OVERSEAS ADVENTURE
---------------------------------------------------------
Sheldon Reynolds production
for First-Run Syndication
Associate Producer John Padovano
European mystery-adventure series 1953-54 39 episodes x 30 min bw
starring
James Daly as Michael Powers (1953-54)
Anne Préville as Patricia Bennett (1953-54)
with
John Padovano as TonyForest (1951-55) (also doubled as associate producer)
Nicole Milinaire as Their Aide in Paris (1953-54)

Background: Europe. The experiences of Michael Powers and Patricia
Bennett, Foreign Correspondents for the "Associated News"

############# Foreign Intrigue ###############
############# season 3 1953-54 ###############
##############################################
Season 3 Airdates from:
WCAU Philadelphia, Channel 10 Thursdays 10:30 pm

3.01 [079] Foreign Intrigue:
INTERNATIONAL SPIES (James Daly)
1Oct53
guest cast:
Francois Provist ........ Night club singer
In Paris, a fellow correspondent of Michael Powers is kidnapped
To save him, Powers deliberatley walks into a trap set by an
international spy ring.

3.02 [080] Foreign Intrigue:
THE UNDERGOUND RAILROAD (James Daly)
8Oct53
guest cast:
Nicole Courcel ........ underground leader
Michael Powers decides that the only way to get an authentic
story of escape from behind the Iron Curtain is to go there
and escape himself.

3.03 [081] Foreign Intrigue:
THE CRIME SYNDICATE (James Daly)
15Oct53
A series of murders, apparently without anty motive, baffles
the police. Michael Powers pursues "the executioner" to a
deserted Parisian theater and matches wits with the hired
killer

3.xx [---] Foreign Intrigue:
THE WATERFRONT STORY
airdate unknown

3.05 [083] Foreign Intrigue:
THE TEST FLIGHT (James Daly)
29Oct53
Michael Powers becomes involved with foreign agents at a
house party

3.06 [084] Foreign Intrigue:
no details
5Nov53

3.07 [085] Foreign Intrigue:
JET PILOTS (James Daly)
12Nov53
Aboard a speeding train, a nervous fellow passenger gives
Michael Powers secret jet plane plans, then hurls himself
through the window. Powers now becomes the target for secret
agent of foreign powers.

3.08 [086] Foreign Intrigue:
THE GENERAL STAFF (James Daly)
19Nov53
Produced by Sheldon Reynolds
Original screenplay by Harold Jack Bloom & Sam Rolfe
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Eugene Deckers ........ Carl Weimer
Francois Martin .......... Johann
Eleonore Hirt ......... Helly Bramm
Paul Bonifas ........... Mr. Weimer
Frederick O'Brady ........ Wormser
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sacha Kamenka
Film Editor Steve Previn
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Raymond Druart
Sound Equipment Poste Parisien
Engineer Tony Leenhardt
*
Michael Powers assists an attempts to capture a Nazi war
criminal.

3.09 [087] Foreign Intrigue:
BLACKMAIL (James Daly + Anne Préville)
26Nov63
Produced by Sheldon Reynolds
Original screenplay by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Yves Brainville .......... Prager
Pierre Gay ............ Vestey
Marcel Journet ........ Sarnow
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sacha Kamenka
Film Editor Steve Previn
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Raymond Druart
Sound Equipment Poste Parisien
Engineer Tony Leenhardt
*
A member of a professional spy ring tries to give his story
to Michael Powers.

3.10 [088] Foreign Intrigue:
THE HOMICIDE BUREAU (Anne Préville)
3Dec53
Patricia Bennett (Anne Preville) acts as bait for a murderer.

3.11 [089] Foreign Intrigue:
NAPLES (James Daly)
17Dec53
guest cast:
Sheldon Reynolds (who is also Executive Producer)
Michael Powers searches for the murderer of a fellow reporter.

3.12 [090] Foreign Intrigue:
THE STAR OF GHIZA (James Daly)
24Dec53
Produced, adapted and directed by Sheldon Reynolds
Original screenplay by Joseph Victor
Guest Cast:
Georges Tabet ......... Rahib
Emilio Carrer ........ Fergazi
Jacques Hilling ........ Cabdriver
J.P.Mocky ............ Akhmet
Ariane Dufy ......... Miss Ramanekh
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sacha Kamenka
Film Editor Francoise Javet
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Raymond Druart
Sound Equipment Poste Parisien
Engineer Tony Leenhardt
*
Michael Powers invades a Paris rendezvous for Middle Easterners
after a beautiful informant is murdered.

3.13 [091] Foreign Intrigue:
THE FLIGHT TO GENEVA (Anne Preville)
31Dec53
Produced by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Tom Younger & Edward Mazzocco
Directed by Michel Bernheim
Guest Cast:
Roger Treville ........ Nile
O'Brady ........... Chester
E.Deckers .......... Passenger
*
Screenplay by Harold Jack Bloom
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sacha Kamenka
Film Editor Steve Previn
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Raymond Druart
Sound Equipment Poste Parisien
Engineer Tony Leenhardt
*
Patricia Bennett (Anne Preville) undertakes to deliver a message
to a courier, only to find that her presence aboard the plane
marks the flight for death.

3.14 [092] Foreign Intrigue:
THE BORDER (James Daly)
7Jan54
guest cast:
Roger Treville .......... Nicoli
Bernard Farrell ......... Doctor
Michael Powers joins what looks like a routine reporters'
survey of hospital facilities and ends up aiding an
underground agent in an escape from behind the Iron Curtain.

3.15 [093] Foreign Intrigue:
THE BADGER GAME (James Daly)
21Jan54
Directed by Jack Gage
Just before an election, a prime minister is threatened by
a scandal engineered by subversive agents.

3.16 [094] Foreign Intrigue:
FIRE BOMBS (Anne Preville + John Padovano)
aka - Six Fire Bombs
28Jan54
Original Story by Sydney Morse
Screenplay by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Roger Treville ......... Larman
O'Brady ............ Gordean
Michel André ........... Tom
Pierre Gay .......... Fire Chief
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sacha Kamenka
Film Editor Steve Previn
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Raymond Druart
Sound Equipment Poste Parisien
Engineer Tony Leenhardt
*
Patricia Bennett (Anne Preville) comes to suspect that a series
of apparently unrelated fires have been set by subversive agents,
in order to disrupt the Western aid program.

3.17 [095] Foreign Intrigue:
PROPAGANDA (James Daly + John Padovano)
aka - The Coat
4Feb54
Produced and Adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Tom Younger and Edward Maze
Screen Play by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Henrik Schildt ......... Anton
Gösta Prüzelius ......... Bruno
Martin Söderhjelm ......... Gant
Inga Landgré .......... Anna
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
A diplomatic courier uses Michael Powers' top coat to hide
an important document in Stockholm.

3.18 [096] Foreign Intrigue:
DISASTER RELIEF (James Daly)
aka - The Benefactor
18Feb54
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by J.C.Sheers and Hamilton Keener
Screen Play by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Stig Järrel ......... Fleming
Alain Blair ....... Inspector
Lars Egge ........... Captain
Keve Hjelm ........... Sailor
Bambi Björklund ......... Boy
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Michael Powers becomes suspicious when a disaster relief
shipment is hurried through customs
Alternative Synopsis:
Checking out a small fire at the docks, Michael Powers
has an adventure that ends up in a quick swim.

3.19 [097] Foreign Intrigue:
THE GEIGER COUNTER (James Daly + Anne Preville + John Padovano)
aka - Cul-du-Sac
25Feb54
Produced and Adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original Screen Play by George and Gertrude Fass
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
Sven-Eric Gamble ......... Sievert
Christian Bratt ........... Henri
Martin Söderhjelm ........ Policeman
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Michael Powers is cornered in a radio-logical laboratory by
a desperate thug.

3.20 [098] Foreign Intrigue:
DYNAMITE (James Daly + John Padovano)
aka - Closed City
4Mar54
Produced and Adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Edward Pope
Screen Play by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Henrik Schildt ........ Inspector
Erik Strandmark .......... Marcel
Ivar Wahlgren ......... Cloche
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Erik Nordgren
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
A truck loaded with dynamite is planted by subversive agents
in a city west of the Iron Curtain.

3.21 [099] Foreign Intrigue:
THE LABORATORY (James Daly)
aka - The Doctor
prod. no. FA-99
11Feb54
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Signe Hasso
A woman becomes jealous of her husbands's scientific
achievements and endangers Sweden's defense program.

3.22 [100] Foreign Intrigue:
PLASTIC SURGERY (James Daly)
aka - Plastic Surgeon / aka - Double Exposure
prod. no. FA-100
10Dec53
Produced and Adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Tom Younger
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Lauritz Falk ......... Boumann
Ivar Wahlgren ............ Hönig
John Starck ......... Bruno
Claes Thelander ......... Courvelle
Keve Hjelm ........ Kurt
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Michael Powers finds his vacation in Sweden is upset when
a fellow bus passenger disappears and is found slain.

3.23 [101] Foreign Intrigue:
THE AIRPORT (James Daly + Anne Preville)
aka - Insurance For Death
prod no. FA-101
10Jun54
Directed by Jack Gage
Patricia Bennett (Anne Preville) witnesses the murder of a
courier carrying secret documents, so she is kidnapped.
Michael Powers tries to rescue her but is slowed down by a
strange coincidence.

3.24 [102] Foreign Intrigue:
BOGUS CURRENCY (James Daly)
aka - Lombardo
14Jan54
prod. no. FA-102
Produced and adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Joseph Victor
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Signe Hasso ....... Mrs.Lombardo
Leif Amble-Naess ....... Lombardo
Lauritz Falk ....... Inspector
Kopeck...Ivar Wahlgren ...... Kopeck
*
Screen Play by Harold Jack Bloom
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Michael Powers investigates some economic defense pacts
which are threatened.
Note: Anne Preville is NOT in this episode.

3.25 [103] Foreign Intrigue:
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE (James Daly + Anne Préville)
aka - Zachary
prod. no. FA-103
18Mar54, WCAU Philadelphia, Channel 10 Thursday 10:30 pm
Produced and Adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original Story by Jospeh Victor
Screenplay by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Uno Henning .............. Imposter
Lauritz Falk ............. Moretto
P.G. Holmgren ............ Ponti
Gösta Prüzelius .......... Major Domo
Tyne Daly* ............... Girl
[*Tyne Daly was James Daly's daughter, better known for
her U.S. police series "Cagney and Lacey" (1981-1988)]
other credits:
Director of Photography .. Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager ....... Hans Lagerkvist
Assistant Director ....... Tom Younger
Film Editor .............. Lennart Wallén
Music .................... Sixten Liedbeck
Set Design ............... Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer ........... Sven Hansen
Michael Powers is held prisoner in the home of a rich man
who had announced he would sell all of his worldly
belongings.

3.26 [104] Foreign Intrigue:
PERJURED EVIDENCE (James Daly)
aka? - The Fix
25Mar54
On the eve of an election, Michael Powers becomes suspicious
when a democratic prime minister is accused of murder.

3.27 [105] Foreign Intrigue:
PROPHECIES (James Daly)
aka - The Prophet
prod. FA-105
11Mar54
Produced and Adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by J.C.Sheers and Hamilton Keener
Screen Play by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Guest Cast:
Henrik Schildt ........ Feo
Åke Ohberg ........ Torsus
Ivar Wahlgren ........ Reghin
Leif Amble-Naess ....... Myrik
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Subversives use a blind storekeeper's prophesies to overthrow
a government. Michael Powers thinks its strange that the
predictions only cover political matters.

3.28 [106] Foreign Intrigue:
NARCOTICS (James Daly)
aka - Mona
1Apr54
Produced and Adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original screen play by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Alf Kjellin ............ Burt
Margareta Fahlén .......... Mona
Alan Blair .......... Inspector
Martin Söderhjelm ........ Max
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Sixten Liedbeck
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Michael Powers has his own methods of breaking up a narcotics
ring when police are unable to prsecute the leader of the
gangs of smugglers.

3.29 [---] Foreign Intrigue:
THE BRIDGE (James Daly)
aka? - The Mills of God
8Apr54
Michael Powers comes to the aid of an underground agent trying
to escape from a totalitarian state

3.30 [108] Foreign Intrigue:
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING (James Daly)
aka - Mont Albino
prod. no. FA-108
29Apr54
Original story by George and Gertrude Fass
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Lauritz Falk ........ Brodin
Ivar Wahlgren ........ Schwindt
Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz ...... Brita
Torsten Lilliecrona ...... Mansell
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Erik Nordgren
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Michael Powers' vacation is interrupted when the daughter of
a prime minister is kidnapped.

3.31 [109] Foreign Intrigue:
KIDNAPPING (James Daly + John Padovano)
aka - Secretary Philips
15Apr54
Produced and Adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original story by Robert A.Cinader
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Margareta Fahlén ....... Nancy
Åke Ohberg ........ Philips
Sven B.Nordberg ....... Inspector
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Erik Nordgren
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
A highly place official informs Michael Powers that his
life has been threatened in connection with a vote on the
location of some western air bases

3.32 [110] Foreign Intrigue:
THE BROTHERHOOD (James Daly)
(orig airdate not known)
Produced, Adapted and Directed by Sheldon Reynolds
Original Story by George and Gertrude Fass
Guest Stars:
Nicole Courcel ....... Annette
Jim Gerald ........... Old Man
Paul Bonifas ......... Herzog
Jo Dest .......... Gantner
Yves Brainville ....... Inspector
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sacha Kamenka
Film Editor Francoise Javet
Music Paul Durand
Set Designer Raymond Druart
Sound Equipment Poste Parisien
Engineer Tony Leenhardt
*
No Synopsis

3.33 [111] Foreign Intrigue:
THE MISSING OFFICIAL (James Daly)
aka - The Man Who Was Almost There
6May54
Produced and Adapted by Sheldon Reynolds
Original Story by Tom Younger and Ed.Mazzacco
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Isa Quensel ........ Mrs. Bartok
Alan Blair ........ Capt. Maurii
Leif Hedenberg ......... Hotel Clerk
John Widborg ........ Colonel
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Michael Powers is about to interview a government official
and finds that he has disappeared.

3.34 [112] Foreign Intrigue:
THE TIME BOMBS (James Daly + John Padovano)
aka - Bomb / aka - Sabotage
13May54
Original Screen Play by Kay Robert Krausse
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Inga Landgré ........ Marta
Tord Stål ....... Dorfmann
Olle Huddén ........ Karl
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Hans Lagerkvist
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Eric Nordgren
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Michael Powers investigating a factory fire, has a chance
meeting with a terrified secretary, and is plunged into a
conspiracy to wreck a country's industrial potential.

3.35 [113] Foreign Intrigue:
THE JAIL SENTENCE (James Daly)
aka - Confession
prod. no. FA-113
20May54
Directed by Steve Previn
guest cast:
Tord Stal
Elisaveta
Claes Thelander
Helge Hayerman
Michael Powers does a story on a released convict and discovers
some contraband shipping.

3.36 [114] Foreign Intrigue:
THE SECRET DOCUMENTS (James Daly)
aka ? The Brotherhood
27May54
Michael Powers discovers that a professional spy ring has
kidnapped two top scientists.

3.37 [115] Foreign Intrigue:
THE RANSOM (James Daly + John Padovano)
3Jun54
Original Screen Play by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Ralph Browne ....... Inspector
Inga Landgré ........ Mrs. Tanner
Göran Lundkvist ........ Johnny
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Michael Powers learns that an international espionage ring
is holding a man as hostage, to be given up in return for
defense secrets

3.38 [116] Foreign Intrigue:
THE ALIBI (James Daly)
17Jun54
Original Screen Play by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Alf Kjellin ......... Inspector
Rangvi Lindblad ....... Nina
Kerstin Wibom ........ Anna
Ulf Johansson ........ Julio
Märta Dorff ........ Mrs. Eckhart
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Michael Powers gives evidence which threatens a political
party's position, not knowing that the evidence was a
dying man's cover up.

3.39 [117] Foreign Intrigue:
THE TOURIST (James Daly)
aka - Visiting Forewoman / aka - The Mix-up
24Jun54
Original Screen Play by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Ralph Browne ........ Vigness
Ann-Marie Gyllenspetz ....... Elsa
Tord Stål ......... Inspector
Bengt Blomgren ......... Steffo
Gisella Vallen .......... Lenore
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Assistant Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Erik Nordgren
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Sven Hansen
*
Michael Powers is trying to protect a girl from killers,
though she doen't know it. The suspense mounts as he pretends
to take her on a sight seeing tour.
Format 1   Format 2   Format 3
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FOREIGN INTRIGUE format (3) syndicated as CROSSCURRENT
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Sheldon Reynolds production
Official Films Release
for
U.S. Syndication
Filmed in Vienna
Associate Producer John Padovano
European mystery adventure series 1954-55 39 episodes x 30 min bw
starring
Gerald Mohr as Christopher Storm (1954-55)
with
John Padovano as TonyForest (1951-55) (also associate producer)
recuring characters:
Gilbert Robin as Dodo
John Stark as Starky

Background: Vienna. The story of Christopher Storm, owner of the
"Hotel Frontier" who aides the distressed against the international
underworld.
Airdates - NYC - New York City
############# Foreign Intrigue ###############
############# season 4 1954-55 ###############
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4.01 [118] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent
FORGED PLATES (Gerald Mohr + James Daly + John Padovano)
aka - Counterfeit Plates / aka ? Counterfeit Money
30Sep54 NYC
Produced, written and directed by Sheldon Reynolds
Guest Cast:
Francoise Prevost ........ Janine
Gregoire Aslan ......... Tomberg
John Stark ........... Starky
*
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sven Sjönell
2nd Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Nils Kyndel
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Lennart Unnerstad
*
Helping an American newspaperman get a headline story,
Christopher Storm takes a backstreet tour of Vienna in
search of counterfeit plates.

4.02 [119] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
INTERNATIONAL DIAMOND SMUGGLERS (Gerald Mohr + John Padovano)
aka - The Model from Holland
7Oct54 NYC
Directed by Sheldon Reynolds
guest cast:
Ingrid Thulin ....... The Model
Christopher Storm becomes the reluctant guardian of a beautious
visiting blonde when the underworld suspects she has smuggled
a million dollars worth of contraband diamonds out of Vienna.

4.03 [120] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE BOXING GAME (Gerald Mohr + James Daly)
aka - The Fighter
14Oct54 NYC
Produced and directed by Sheldon Reynolds
Original screen play Harold Jack Bloom
Guest Cast:
Ralph Brown .......... Rauol
Frank Sundström ......... Riker
Gilbert Robin ............ Dodo
John Stark ........ Starky
Kurt Masreliez ......... Pepe
*
Associate Producer John Padovano
Director of Photography Gunnar Fischer
Production Manager Sven Sjönell
2nd Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Erland von Koch
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
Aroused by the undue interest of a newpaperman and the peculiar
behaviour of those connected with a seemingly unimportant bout.
The life of an old friend, a boxing champ, has been endangered
by his conniving manager.

4.04 [121] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE CONFIDENCE GAME (Gerald Mohr)
aka - The Con Game
21Oct54 NYC
Directed by Sheldon Reynolds
guest cast:
Gunnel Brostrom ....... Nita
Christopher Storm aids one of his guests when he gets involved
in an innocent card game with a group of gangsters which results
in murder. Chris discovers a wallet lost and quickly returned
establishes the identity of the victim of an international
racket

4.05 [122] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE EMPTY ROOM (Gerald Mohr)
aka? The Avenger
28Oct54 NYC
Directed by Sheldon Reynolds
After years of pursuit, a would-be killer wounds his victim
in front of Christopher Storm's "Hotel Frontier". Collapsing
in Storm's arms, the exhausted man inadvertantly involves
Storm in a deadly feud with death as the easiest way out.

4.06 [123] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE TRUMPET PLAYER (Gerald Mohr)
aka? The Third Partner
4Nov54 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
A blues singer in a French cafe seeks the aid of Christopher
Storm when her husband, burdened with gambling debts, goes
into hiding. Chris Storm finds himself in the middle of a
complicated chase when he helps the jazz trumpeter escape
from the would-be killers.

4.07 [124] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
INTERNATIONAL ROBBERY (Gerald Mohr + John Padovano)
aka - The Little Girl
11Nov54 NYC
Original screen play Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Ralph Browne .......... Kiley
Gunnel Broström ........ Margo
Gunlog Hagberg ....... Lise
*
Director of Photography Gunnar Fischer
Production Manager Sven Sjönell
2nd Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Erik Nordgren
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
A frightened girl on a particular errand leads Christopher
Storm to the hideout of a British bank robber who is hiding
a teenage girl and her mother incommunicado.

4.08 [125] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE STAMP COLLECTOR (Gerald Mohr)
aka? Off Beat
18Nov54 NYC
(THIS EPISODE NOT Directed by Marcel Cravenne)
Original Screenlay by Gene Levitt
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Ingrid Thulin ......... Ilsa
Alf Kjellin ........... (Gerard) Brenner
Folke Sundquist ....... Tendler
John Stark ............ Starky (recurring)
*
Director of Photography Bertil Palmren
Production Manager Sven Sjönell
2nd Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
Synopsis: Christopher Storm becomes suspicious when one of his guests,
(Gerard Brenner) who is traveling incognito, lists a name which does not
correspond with the initials on his luggage ("A de R"). Chris outwits
international thieves who plan the theft of the guest's
priceless stamp collection.

4.09 [126] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE JEWEL THIEF (Gerald Mohr)
aka - Pocketful of Bracelet
25Nov54 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
Shortly after his conversation with a sultry beauty, Christopher
Storm finds a priceless diamond necklace stuffed into his
pocket. Chris is given one hour to prove that he did not
actually steal the necklace.

4.10 [127] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE POISONED TEACUP (Gerald Mohr)
aka - Witness at Large
2Dec54 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
guest cast:
Ingrid Thulin .......... Crystal
John Podovano .......... Tony (regular)
Gunwar Sjoberg ......... Drexel
Tordsten Liliencrona ... Paul
Gilbert Rolen .......... Dodo
Christopher Storm is poisoned by a strange woman who mistakes
him for the main witness in a murder trial

4.11 [128] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE PLAYFUL PRINCE (Gerald Mohr)
aka - The Prince and I
9Dec54 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
cast:
John Podovano .......... Tony (regular)
A Balkan Prince, traveling incognito, come to Christopher
Storm's Hotel Frontier on a vacation holiday from his
royal duties.

4.12 [129] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
BULLFIGHTER'S WOMAN (Gerald Mohr)
aka - The Woman
16Dec54 NYC
Directed by Jack Gage
guest cast:
Sonja Wiggert ......... Elsa
Emilo Carrer .......... Tomacho
Christopher Storm, vacationing in sunny Spain, proves
instrumental in reuniting an ex-bullfighter and his old
Austrian flame. Chris comes to the matador's aid when he
is accused of murdering his former sweetheart's boyfriend.

4.13 [130] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE STATE SECRETS (Gerald Mohr)
aka - The Witness
23Dec54 NYC
Guest Cast:
Mai Britt* (according to TV Guide)
*Note:
It's not the Mai Britt (May Britt Wilkens) (1934 - ), who married the late Sammy Davis, Jr.!
Instead, it's Maj-Britt Nilsson (1924 - ), who was in a couple of Ingmar Bergman movies [BL]
Synopsis:
An undercover agent carrying state secrets is found
stabbed to death in Christopher Storm's "Hotel Frontier".
The key witness, an attractive French girl refuses to
talk. Chris Storm starts off to bring the murderer to
justice.

(Moves to Wed 9:30 on Channel 7 New York City)

4.14 [131] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE SPEED DEMONS (Gerald Mohr)
aka - The Girl Who Wasn't There
29Dec54 NYC
Original screen play Gene Levitt (Fantasy Island)
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Doris Svedlund ........... Nancy
Börje Mellvig .......... Inspector
Gilbert Robin .......... Dodo
Stig Järrel .......... Felix
*
Director of Photography Gunnar Fischer
Production Manager Sven Sjönell
2nd Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
synopsis 1:
When Christopher Storm returns a handbag to Maria Dona, an
important lady secretary that he hit in a freak auto accident,
he finds another woman in the apartment claiming the same name.
synopsis 2:
Two women both bearing the same name "Maria Dona" have Storm
doubting his sanity. After knocking one of them down in a
weird auto mishap, she completely disappears and the other
"Maria" takes her place.

4.15 [132] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE SPY RING (Gerald Mohr)
aka - Souvenir de Paris
5Jan55 NYC
Original screen play Gene Levitt (Fantasy Island)
Directed by Tom Younger
Guest Cast:
Ulf Palme .......... Jens
Ulla Sjöblom ......... Grete
Gilbert Robin ........ Dodo
John Stark ......... Starky
*
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sven Sjönell
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Nils Kyndel
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
A pleasure trip to Copenhagen turns out to be strictly
business for Christopher Storm. He is led into a carefully
laid trap, set by a European spy ring, that is designed to
aquaint him with a female spy. The ring plan to use Chris
as an unwitting courier for top secret defense plans

4.16 [133] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
APPOINTMENT AT FIVE (Gerald Mohr)
aka - Five O'Clock Sharp
12Jan55 NYC
Original screen play Gene Levitt (Fantasy Island)
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Gunvor Pontén ....... Miss Steiner
Allan Blair ............. Marble
Stig Järrel ........ Salesman
Märta Dorff ........ Operator
Ulla Padovano ....... Nurse
*
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sven Sjönell
2nd Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
Christopher Storm concludes an innocent luncheon date and
then learns that his luncheon companion, a respectable
Viennese businessman who works for Western Intelligence
on the side, is the unwitting target for two shadowy killers
at five o'clock that evening.

4.17 [134] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE WAYWARD BROTHER (Gerald Mohr)
aka - The Kid
19Jan55 NYC
Original screen play Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Jack Gage
Guest Cast:
Acke Carlsson .......... Teddy
Robert Cunningham ........ Fenner
Rangvi Lindbladh ........... Hilda
Börje Mellvig .......... Inspector
*
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sven Sjönell
2nd Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
Christopher Storm steps out of his role as a Vienna hotel
owner to get involved with a juvenile delinquent and his
doting sister. The delinquent, a part-time boot black, starts
a mess of trouble by stealing a packet of narcotics from
a gangster's office in Vienna.

(Channel 7 New York City - moves to Saturday 9:30 - starting 29Jan55)

4.18 [135] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE MISSING SCHOOLTEACHER (Gerald Mohr)
aka - Schoolteacher Story
29Jan55 NYC
Directed by Jack Gage
guest cast:
Lucille Vines .......... the school teacher
An Iowa school teacher has an innocent aperitif with a nice
young man in Vienna and finds herself kidnapped by a man
hunted by the international police.

4.19 [136] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
BLIND MAN'S BLUFF (Gerald Mohr)
5Feb55 NYC
Directed by Eugene Lourie
guest cast:
Alf Kjellin ............ Carl
Olaf Bergstrom ......... Hans
Christopher Storm is led into a deadly game of hide and
seek when a blind man's hallucinations turn out to be the
real thing. The old man believes that he is going to be
killed.

4.20 [137] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE MAD GUNMAN (Gerald Mohr)
aka?? The Young Assassin
12Feb55 NYC
Directed by Marcel Cravenne
Hotel owner Christopher Storm is the victim of a surprise
gun attack by a vindictive youth who blames him for his
imprisonmemt. When Chris finds who the gunman is, he runs into
another problem with the man's sister.

4.21 [138] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE DIAMOND ALLERGY (Gerald Mohr)
aka - Mr. Landstrasse-Hauptsta
19Feb55 NYC
Original Screen Play Gene Levitt (Fantasy Island)
Directed by Eugène Lourié
Guest Cast:
Sven Eric Gamble .......... Jan
Catrin Westeröund ........ Helene
Margareta Krook ........ Miss Phipps
Gilbert Robin ......... Dodo (recurring)
John Stark ........ Starky (recurring)
*
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sven Sjönell
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Nils Kyndel
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
Two lovers who cannot get married because of financial
difficulties, plan to part. Jan, the boy finds a diamond
necklace, dropped by a fleeing thief near Chris Storm's
"Hotel Frontier" and feels his luck has changed.

4.22 [139] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
A GAME OF CHANCE (Gerald Mohr)
aka - The Model Lady
26Feb55 NYC
Directed by Eugène Lourié
Original screen play Gene Levitt (Fantasy Island)
Guest Cast:
Eva Dahlbeck ........ Barbara (Vale)
Egon Larsson ........ Saloon-keeper
Gunvor Pontén ...... Model
Henrik Anker-Steen ........ Mace
John Stark ....... Starky (recurring)
Gilbert Robin ..... Dodo (recurring)
*
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sven Sjonell
2 Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Nils Kyndel
Set Designer Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
A beautiful girl sneaks out of Christopher Storm's Viennese
Hotel without paying her bill. The girl leaves behind a
suitcase with $75,000 inside. Chris recognizes her as a
fashion model and gets involved with a case of blackmail
when he tracks her down.

4.23 [140] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE PEARL NECKLACE (Gerald Mohr)
aka - Wild Party / possible aka - Maitre d'
5Mar55 NYC
Original screen play Gene Levitt (Fantasy Island)
Directed by Eugène Lourié
Guest Cast:
Ragni Lindblad ....... Lotte
Renee Björling ....... Mrs. Schiller
Georg Rydeberg ........ Butler (Maitre D')
Gilbert Robin ...... Dodo (recurring)
Henrik Schildt ....... Detective
*
Director of Photography ... Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager ........ Sven Sjonell
2nd Unit Director ......... Tom Younger
Film Editor ............... Lennart Wallén
Music ..................... Charles Redland
Set Designer .............. Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer ............ Aaby Wedin
*
A young secretary-companion steals a pearl necklace from her
employer in order to help her brother. When the girl tries to
return the jewelry, she can't find the opportunity, so Chris
Storm dons the guise of a French waiter to return the necklace.

4.24 [141] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE BOY IN THE PARK (Gerald Mohr)
aka? Only Copy
9Apr55 NYC
Directed by Eugene Lourie
A cryptographer finally breaks an important code while resting
in a quaint Viennese park. When he suffers a heart attack, a
small boy picks up the paper he was working on and uses it to
make a paper airplane. Chris is sent to find this very valuable
toy.

4.25 [142] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
TWO MEN FROM ZURICH (Gerald Mohr + John Padovano)
prod. no. FA-142
12Mar55 NYC
Original Screenplay by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Naomi Chance .............. Penelope
Frank Sundstrom ........... Inspector
Lauritz Falk .............. Harry
Gilbert Robin ............. Dodo (recurring)
*
Director of Photography ... Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager ........ Sven Sjonell
2nd Unit Director ......... Tom Younger
Film Editor ............... Lennart Wallén
Music ..................... Charles Redland
Set Designer .............. Nils Svenwall
Sound Engineer ............ Abby Wedin
*
Chris Storm and a friend are in the United States when they
learn of a fur robbery. They tip off the insurance people.
Back in Vienna the two are the object of a hunt by the fur
thieves; a sweet feminine voice invites Christopher Storm to
a date in a hotel room. This date involves Chris in the fur
theft and murder.

4.26 [143] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE CONCERT PIANIST (Gerald Mohr)
aka? The Kurt Hallen Story
prod. no. FA-143
26Mar55 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
synopsis 1: (New York City station)
A famed concert pianist flees in terror from the Viennese
police - accused of a brutal murder. The man is innocent
but fears an investigation into his past because he was once
in jail.
synopsis 2: (Philadelphia station)
A pianist is being blackmailed by someone who knows he was
once in jail. The musician wants to kill his tormentor.
Chris Storm learns of the trouble and investigates.

4.27 [144] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE BROKEN WISHBONE (Gerald Mohr)
aka - Nina
prod. no. FA-144
19Mar55 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
guest cast:
Eva Dahlbeck .... Nina Richter
Chris Storm falls in love with an artist, but is unaware of
the tragedy of her past. Chris tackles a mystery; the elements
of which are, an unsolved Christmas Day murder, a confession
of love from a grief stricken man, a small artists colony on
the outskits of Vienna, and a quiet funeral parlor. The clue
to the young artist's mystery lies in a charm bracelet she
wears that has one charm missing.

4.28 [145] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE SECRET PLANE (Gerald Mohr)
aka - Night Fighter
prod. no. FA-145
2Apr55 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
The love for a girl and the desire for quick money compell a
well-known test pilot, who is slowly losing his vision, to
make his last flight a secret flight for foreign agents to
Switzerland.

4.29 [146] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE DIPLOMAT (Gerald Mohr)
prod. no. FA-146
23Apr55 NYC
Original screen play Gene Levitt (Fantasy Island)
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Frank Sundström ......... Lork, (the diplomat)
Ingrid Thulin ........ Karin (member of the ring)
Arne Källerud ....... Nestor
Lars Kåge ........ Custom Man
*
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sven Sjönell
2 Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer P.A.Lundgren
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
A diplomat friend of Chris Storm plans to double-cross the
government by turning important papers over to a foreign
power. He uses the unsuspecting Storm to transport the papers
to Stockholm. Chris comes face to face with death while
preventing the valuable secrets from falling into the hands
of the Foreign power.

4.30 [147] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
REVENGE (Gerald Mohr)
-aka- SWEET REVENGE
prod. no. FA-147
16Apr55 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
Christopher Storm gives information about a black market
medicine ring to the authorities. Before he can place the
ring leader in the hands of the police, he finds himself
accused of a vicious murder, the victim of a police hoax
and receives a brutal beating.

4.31 [148] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
FULL CIRCLE (Gerald Mohr)
prod. no. FA-148
7May55 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
guest cast:
Henrick Ankar Steen .... the convict
Sonja Stjerquist ....... the girl
Christopher Storm and his beautiful companion are taken
hostage by a desperate convict and his cohort. They force
Storm and his companion to lead them to the border and their
escape.

4.32 [149] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
LITTLE ROMEO (Gerald Mohr)
prod. no. FA-149
30Apr55 NYC
Original Screenplay by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Steve Previn
guest cast:
Sven-Eric Gamble ........ Romeo
Penny Portrait .......... Tina
Birger Malmsten ......... Zinner
John Stark .............. Starkey (recurring)
Bob Layton .............. Pianist
*
Director of Photography ... Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager ........ Sven Sjönell
2nd Unit Director ......... Tom Younger
Film Editor ............... Lennart Wallén
Music ..................... Charles Redland
Set Designer .............. P.A. Lundgren
Sound Engineer ............ Abby Wedin
RCA Sound
European winters fail to dampen the spirits of the unstable
teen-age society of Vienna - and the activities of a
ruthless narcotics ring. When a small time pedler passes some
narcotics in Chris Storm's "Hotel Frontier" that results in
tragedy, Storm decides to clean up the racket.

4.33 [150] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
BIG BROTHER (Gerald Mohr)
prod. no. FA-150
14May55 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
guest cast:
Martine Alexis ......... the girl
An honest, but misguided young man seeks revenge for the cold
blooded murder of his younger brother by smugglers. Chris
Storm is asked to help find the murderer and discovers he
must protect the culprit from the dead man's brother.

4.34 [151] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
MISS FORTUNE (Gerald Mohr)
prod. no. FA-151
21May55 NYC
Original screen play by Harold Jack Bloom
Directed by Steve Previn
Guest Cast:
Alf Kjellin ....... Karl
Martine Alexis ..... Claudine
Birger Malmsten ....... Lauritz
Tord Stål ............ Leon
Gilbert Robin ........ Dodo (recurring)
John Starck ......... Starky (recurring)
*
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager...Sven Sjönell
2 Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer P.A.Lundgren
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
Robbery leads to blackmail and murder in this tale of Viennese
intrigue. A young woman starts the whole affair by stealing
from two jealous brothers.

4.35 [152] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE RELUCTANT KILLER (Gerald Mohr)
prod. no. FA-152
28May55 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
The only person who can recognize a ruthless killer is
Christopher Storm. As a result of a murder committed in
"Hotel Frontier". Storm is plunged into the midst of state
secrets and blackmail when he is persuaded to be a clay
pigeon to trap the murderer.

4.36 [153] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
THE BEAUTY (Gerald Mohr)
prod. no. FA-153
4Jun55 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn

A diplomat's secretary steals an envelope containing some
top secret papers from Christopher Storm and threatens his
life.

4.37 [154] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
FIRST BLUSH (Gerald Mohr)
aka - The Blush
prod. no. FA-154
11Jun55 [us] Foreign Intrigue:
New York City
15May58 [uk] Foreign Intrigue:
A-R London, Thur 11pm
Original screen play Gene Levitt (Fantasy Island)
Directed by Steve Previn
guest cast:
Gaby Stenberg ....... Shana
Hasse Ekman ........ Eridatti
Ivar Wahlgren ....... Strandman
Gilbert Robin ....... Dodo (recurring)
*
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sven Sjonell
2 Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer P.A.Lundgren
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
Christopher Storm encounters a strange collection of people,
and objects when a successful Viennese business woman seeks
his help in investigating the brutal murder of her partner.

4.38 [155] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
DELORES(Gerald Mohr)
aka - Dolores
prod. no. FA-155
25Jun55 NYC
Directed by Steve Previn
Christopher Storm and his newspaper pal Tony Forest, start
playing detective when they learn of a strange and interesting
coincidence. The three former fiancees of a lady circus owner
have met with death under the big top. Helping Chris is a
circus elephant.

4.39 [156] Foreign Intrigue: Crosscurrent:
RUNAROUND (final episode) (Gerald Mohr + John Padovano)
aka - Run Around
prod. no. FA-156
18Jun55 NYC
Written and produced by Sheldon Reynolds
Directed by Steve Previn
cast:
Keve Hjelm ....... Streeter
Tom Younger ........ Kerner
Håkan Westergren ....... Inspector
Erik Strandmark ......... Unger
*
Director of Photography Bertil Palmgren
Production Manager Sven Sjonell
2 Unit Director Tom Younger
Film Editor Lennart Wallén
Music Charles Redland
Set Designer P.A.Lundgren
Sound Engineer Aaby Wedin
*
Hotel owner Christopher Storm becomes a very important man in
the eyes of the Viennese police after word leaks out that he
has some important stolen plans in his possession.

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################# the end ##################
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Theme: "Foreign Intrigue Theme"
[aka: Theme from the TV eries "Foreign Intrigue";
aka: Foreign Intrigue Concerto
aka: Concerto and Theme from "Foreign Intrigue"]
[Theme from TV series was also used for the 1956 motion picture.]

Composer: Charles Norman (ASCAP)
Original Publisher: Leeds Music Corp. (ASCAP), of
New York, NY
Current Publisher: MCA Music Publishing (ASCAP), a div. of
Universal Studios, Inc., of
Los Angeles, CA
Copyright Date: [unpublished] Foreign Intrigue:
Nov. 16, 1953; Eu 338230
[published version] Foreign Intrigue:
Nov. 10, 1954; Ep 84862
[copyright info courtesy researcher Tom Perrone]
Recording:
45rpm single: "Foreign Intrigue Concerto"
Paul Durand
MGM K-12281 [1956]

45rpm single: "Concerto and Theme from Foreign Intrigue"
Les Baxter
Capitol F-3478 [1956]

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