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1. Beginning in 1953, Richard Carlson starred for three years as Herbert A. Philbrick, ad executive, undercover 'commie' and FBI counterspy. Philbrick's televised story was "I Led ________ Lives". Fill in the blank.
2. Based on a 1905 Edgar Wallace novel, Britain's ITC created this hour-long adventure series in 1959. Four former WWII commandos (Jack Hawkins, Dan Dailey, Richard Conte and Vittorio De Sica) went around the world to fight spies, crime, injustice, Nazi war criminals and other evils. What was this precursor of "The A-team" called?
3. While experimenting with invisible guinea pigs, Peter Brady became irreversibly invisible himself. Naturally, British Intelligence turned him into an invisible secret agent. Produced in 1958 for ITV in Britain, CBS hurriedly picked up the show to fill time opened by the sudden loss of scandal-ridden "The $64,000 Question". This unseen spy thriller was named after and loosely based on what popular H.G. Wells novella?
4. In 1959 "World Of Giants" introduced a six-inch tall secret agent who lived in a doll house and was carried to his assignments in a briefcase outfitted with a chair.
5. Michael Rennie starred for three years as Harry Lime, a character originally portrayed by Orson Welles in a 1949 movie. What was the name of this all-time great Cold War-era thriller?
6. In 1952, NBC Films brought a successful radio spy drama to syndicated television. Brian Donlevy starred in both versions of the program as undercover agent Steve Mitchell. What kind of assignment took him around the world to protect American interests?
7. "Foreign Intrigue" was the most successful syndicated spy drama of the '50s even though its main character wasn't a spy or a secret agent.
8. Bob Denver of "Gilligan's Island" was actually cast as a foreign agent in "Biff Baker, U.S.A.".
9. ABC's 1952 live spy drama "Rendezvous" set two standards for the genre. What were they?
10. American television's first spy drama was "Shadow Of The Cloak" which premiered in June 1951 on what now-defunct network?
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