CTVA
The Classic TV Archive - US Spy Series
Top Secret U.S.A.
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox
references:
TV Guide
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive
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TOP SECRET, U.S.A
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MCA-Revue Studios
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First-Run Syndication

US Spy Adventure series 1954-55    26 episodes x 15 min
 (Often two 15 min. Stories combined to make a half hour program)
Starring:
Paul Stewart as Professor Brand
Gena Rowlands as Powell
Charles Cooper as ?

Premise:
The exploits of Brand and Powell, undercover agents with the "Bureau
of Scientific Information.

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Syndicated Program

[--] Top Secret: THE LOST CHILD (15min)
07Apr56 syndicated airdate
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Vergel Cook
Synopsis:
A top nuclear physicist seems to have lost her sanity. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title (possibly "The Lost Child")
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Vergel Cook
Irma Sandre
Tom Reynolds
Synopsis:
Atomic experiments leave a girl telepathic and in serious danger. [RF]

[--] Top Secret: PROJECT NURSERY (15min)
07Apr56 syndicated airdate
starring
Gena Rowlands
Charles Cooper
Synopsis:
A series of small robberies points to espionage. [RF]

[--] Top Secret: THE LOST CHILD (15min)
07Apr56
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Vergel Cook
Charles Cooper
Synopsis:
A top nuclear physicist seems to have lost her sanity. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A top nuclear scientist goes insane when her child is killed in an
atomic experiment. [RF]

[--] Top Secret: DIET OF DESTRUCTION (15min)
17May1958
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Synopsis:
The Army hospital is puzzled by a patient's disappearing acts. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
An Army hospital finds that a patient has disappeared. [RF]

[--] Top Secret: THE ELIXIR
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Synopsis:
A tale about a man who is seriously injured but feels no pain. [RF]

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Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Synopsis:
Every sweater made of a new fabric mysteriously goes up in flames. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Charles Cooper
Synopsis:
The bureau discovers that the elements necessary for nuclear fission
have been stolen. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Charles Cooper
Marcel Hillaire
Synopsis:
French uranium miners stop work claiming the mine is haunted. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Synopsis:
A new dam must be destroyed to stop an outbreak of ptomaine poisoning. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Ward Costello
Synopsis:
A rocket manufacturer reports that all its top machinery has gone
strangely haywire. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Stephen Gethers
Stephen Alden Case
Michael Garth
Synopsis:
News of a serious food-poisoning epidemic arrives with news of strange
behavior of hospital equipment in the area. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Charles Cooper
Synopsis:
A scientist's son insists he can hear the voice of his missing father. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Charles Cooper
Helen Lloyd Sharp
Milo Boulton
Synopsis:
The pilot of a satellite ship goes mad and threatens to kill himself
and the crew. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
George Mitchell
Synopsis:
A scientist, his invention and his report have vanished. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
George Mitchell
Synopsis:
A message warns the bureau of a bomb scare but the real danger proves
to be the message itself. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Synopsis:
Every prototype of a new jet mysteriously explodes soon after takeoff. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Synopsis:
Just as a scientist discovers a new anti-force, a herd of cattle
disintegrates. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Jack Lord
Dick Moore
Synopsis:
Two scientists are trying to reach new dimensions in time and space. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Frederick Downs
Synopsis:
Brand tries to get an important scientist to come out of retirement and
lead an expedition. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Synopsis:
Brand is on a routine flight when the jet begins to show signs of metal
fatigue. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Synopsis:
Two men claim to be Erik Berne, a scientist vital to national security. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Synopsis:
Prof. Brand figures there's something afoot when the Russians request
the body of a dead scientist. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Charles Cooper
Synopsis:
A scientist has devoted his life to developing a rocket ship. Now, for
a bizarre reason, the rocket fails. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Synopsis:
Prof. Brand suspects a man released by enemy agents has been
brainwashed. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Synopsis:
A leading scientist has gone blind but there is nothing wrong with his
eyes. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
Charles Cooper
Monica Lovett
Lonnie Chapman
Synopsis:
John Foster prefers to die rather than continue spreading death
wherever he goes. [RF]

Top Secret: Unknown title
starring
Paul Stewart ..... Professor Brand
Charles Cooper
Gena Rowlands .... Powell
George Mitchell
Synopsis:
Three top scientists have suddenly begun to act like children. [RF]

 
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