The Man Who Never Was
(1966)
50 minutes
Spy Drama
Cast:
Robert Lansing as Peter Murphy alias Mark Wainwright - Robert Lansing
Dana Wynter as Eva Wainwright
Murray Hamilton as Jack Forbes, Murphy’s superior
Alex Devion as Roger Berry
A suspense filled spy drama that aired on ABC TV for 18 episodes from September 7, 1966 to January 4, 1967.
Pursued by East German police, who uncovered his identity, Peter Murphy, American espionage agent, wanders onto the grounds of an estate, the scene of a society party. Straying from the house, multimillionaire Mark Wainwright—Murphy’s exact double— is mistaken for Peter by the police and killed. Walking toward Wainwright, Murphy is mistaken for Mark by the Wainwright chauffeur and told of an impending meeting. Following through with the charade , he is driven to the Wainwright residence.
First meeting Peter, Eva, Marks’s beautiful wife, is unaware that he is an imposter. Attending a meeting wherein Roger Berry, Mark’s ambitious half-brother, is to assume control of Eva’s family corporation, she becomes aware of a difference when Peter refuses to sign the transfer papers. Leaving the Berry residence, Eva questions the stranger posing as her husband. Unable to reveal his true identity, he tells her about Mark and asks her to continue posing as his wife. Mystified, but needing Mark Wainwright alive to save her family corporation, she agrees.
~Music by Lionel Newman
Episodes:
1. One Plus One Equals One 9/7/1966
2. The Last of Peter Murphy 9/14/1966
3. Search for a Bent Twig 9/21/1966
4. All That Lia Ever Wanted 9/28/1966
5. Escape 10/5/1966
6. Death in Vienna 10/12/1966
7. A Little Ignorance 10/19/1966
8. Target: Eva 10/26/1966
9. The Big Fish 11/2/1966
10. Pay Now, Pray Later 11/9/1966
11. Games of Death 11/16/1966
12. If This Be Treason 11/23/1966
13. To Kill an Albatross 11/30/1966
14. Things Dead and Done 12/7/1966
15. The Perfect Crime 12/14/1966
16. In Memory of Davos 12/21/1966
17. Drop by Drop 12/28/1966
18. I Take This Woman 1/4/1967
