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Virgin of the Secret Service : Season 1
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Air date: 28 Mar '68 - 13 episodesSet in the 1900s, when the British Secret Service was a new, unofficial arm of military activity, the series features Captain Robert Virgin - an officer and a gentleman who fights as a man of honour. Armed only with intelligence, ingenuity, physical strength and abundant charm, Virgin faces every sort of peril as he defends King and country - from industrial espionage to anarchist bomb plots, assassination attempts to kidnapping.
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List of Episodes (13)
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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1. Dark Deeds on the Northwest Frontier
28 Mar '68A professor is abducted while hunting butterflies on the Afghan border.
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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2. Russian Roundabout
04 Apr '68A Russian masterplan to bring down the British Empire is hidden in the St Petersburg palace of Prince Rouvaloff.
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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3. Entente Cordiale
11 Apr '68Doublett and Mrs Cortez impersonate the Duke and Dutchess of Albany when Entente Cordiale is threatened by von Brauner's attempts to have the Duke killed and throw suspicion on the French.
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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4. The Great Ring of Akba
18 Apr '68Virgin is tasked with escorting a princess back to Akba. But, von Brauner plans to capture the princess and deliver her to Akba's murderous new ruler.
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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5. The Amazons
25 Apr '68Virgin and Doublett have a desperate mission to Brazil thrust upon them when Colonel Shaw-Camberley learns that a vital rubber plantation is not being worked, and that the company manager's daughters are in dire danger.
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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6. The Rajah and the Suffragette
02 May '68Virgin and Doublett uncover a plot to stir the Indian princes against the British Raj, masterminded by von Brauner.
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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7. Persuasion of a Million Drops
09 May '68A Swiss professor develops a paralysing gas, and von Brauner is quick to see the possibilities if he can obtain the secret for himself and his ally Generalissimo Chu Chen Yu.
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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8. Pride of Assassins
16 May '68Von Brauner has been ordered to arrange the assassination of the King of Croatia.
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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9. Across the Silver Pass of Gusri Song
23 May '68An ancient prophesy tells of a white warrior who will cross the Silver Pass and claim the immortal Shang Li as his bride. Von Brauner plans to make himself the warrior, thus wrecking a proposed trade treaty; but Virgin has a trump card.
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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10. The Pyramid Plot
30 May '68As the Colonel arrives in Egypt to investigate the disappearance of no fewer than seven British officers, he narrowly escapes becoming the eighth. Can Virgin's timely arrival help save the Colonel's life as well as thwarting a plot to seize the Suez Canal?
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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11. A Fate Worse Than Death
06 Jun '68When Virgin is faced with a plot to assassinate the King and seize the Crown Jewels, he finds that he will have to work with von Brauner during the occasion of the state visit of the Kaiser.
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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12. The Professor Goes West
13 Jun '68When an Englishman in America invents a magnometer - a device that locates oil - he is kidnapped by von Brauner and would-be oil tycoon Big Jack.
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Virgin of the Secret Service (1968)
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13. Wings Over Glencraig
20 Jun '68At a time when the world is waiting for man to be airborne, it is rumoured that the Laird of Glencraig has invented a flying machine. Men of all nations want the secret - among them the wily von Brauner...
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