The Trader (Spyforce Episode)

Infobox Television episode | Title = The Trader


Caption =
Series = Spyforce
Season = 1
Episode = 6
Airdate = 6 August 1971 (Nine)
Production = Paramount Pictures
Writer = Ron McLean
Director = Howard Rubie
Guests =
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Prev = The Bridge
Next = The Escape

"The Trader" is the sixth episode of the first series of the Australian wartime espionage drama Spyforce created by Roger Mirams and Ron McLean. 'The Bridge' was guest-directed by Howard Rubie, and the script was written by Ron McLean.

Plot

"Warning! This is a summary of the plot of this episode, and may spoil the outcome."

In "The Trader" Erskine and Gunther Haber are back in New Guinea where they are called upon to help rescue a party of locals from the advancing Imperial Japanese Army. The Japanese discover their presence and cut them off from their path to the coast. With the Japanese Army closing in, the party take refuge in a small trading post, but the pair soon become suspicious that one of their party is assisting the Japanese in their pursuit.

The episode introduces the character of Jill Stewart (played by Anna-Maria Winchester), who is a secret agent with the Special Intelligence Unit employed by Colonel Cato to keep watch over Erskine and Haber, as the Colonel doesn't trust the pair's maverick methods. In one scene Winchester appears naked in a shower, and the scene was originally going to be cut for fear of offending the conservative censors of the period, however after much debate MacLean and Rubie decided the scene was "much too good to be cut". ["TV Week Magazine", August 22, 1971 ]

Credits

CAST:
*Erskine - Jack Thompson
*Lt. French - Katy Wild
*Gunther Haber - Peter Sumner
*Col. Cato - Redmond Philips

Support:
*Jill Stewart - Anna-Maria Winchester
*Capt. Pollock - Bill Hunter
*Capt. Bergen - Stuart Finch
*John Levenson - Graham Corry
*Eric - Gordon Piper
*Yaseki - Chin Yu Williams

CREW:
*Producer - Roger Mirams
*Associate Producer - Ron McLean
*Music - Brian Rangott & Geoff Harvey
*Paramount Production Executive - Bruce Gordon

Notes