Spyder's Web

- Season 1

(1972)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.