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Spyder Secures a Main Strand

Episode number: 1

Overview: 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.

The Executioners

Episode number: 2

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

Romance on Wheels

Episode number: 3

Overview: 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.

The Hafiz Affair

Episode number: 4

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

Life at a Price

Episode number: 5

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

Emergency Exit

Episode number: 6

Overview: 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.

Red Admiral

Episode number: 7

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

Lies and Dolls

Episode number: 8

Overview: 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.

Things That Go Bang in the Night

Episode number: 9

Overview: An inventor of bizarre killing-machines leaves a lethal legacy, which his eccentric relations compete to get their hands on.

An Almost Modern Man

Episode number: 10

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

Nobody's Strawberry Fool

Episode number: 11

Overview: A bizarre story of a body preserved in the Swiss snow since 1914 - which has now gone missing in transit.

The Prevalence of Skeletons

Episode number: 12

Overview: 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.

Rev Counter

Episode number: 13

Overview: 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.