Masquerade

1983–1984 · Ended · 1 season · 13 episodes · Action & Adventure, Drama · United States

Creator Glen A. Larson · Channel ABC · Starring Rod Taylor, Kirstie Alley, Greg Evigan

Masquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983.
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13 episodes · December 1983 – May 1984
  1. Episode 1: 1. PilotDecember 15, 1983 · 60 min
    The mission: The NIA must use average people as agents because a bitter ex-agent has written a book exposing most of the United States’ top secret agents. In the debut show, Russian agent “Wolfen” is killing off agents one by one and nearly bumps off our hero, Taylor. “Wolfen" is played by British bad boy Oliver Reed. ‘Operation: Masquerade’ is put into effect as common people get involved in a scam to discredit Wolfen in the eyes of his Russian superiors. As Taylor says ‘‘We must make him appear a lazy, incompetent, womanizing agent. Sort of like the Soviet version of ‘Arthur.’ He recruits Ernest Borgnine as the plumber, Cybill Shepherd as the actress, Richard Roundtree as the halfback Mean Willie Walters, Robert Morse as a shifty pickpocket, and Austin Pendleton as an actor who is a master of disguises. Howard Da Silva plays a Soviet official.
  2. Episode 2: 2. DiamondsDecember 22, 1983
    Lavender sends a courier to deliver some sensitive material. But a man named Marlos kills the courier and makes off with the material. Lavender knows Marlos is behind it so they have to get it back. Part of his plan is stop the sale which is about to take place.
  3. Episode 3: 3. Girls for SaleDecember 29, 1983 · 60 min
    Masquerade Chief Lavender and a group of carefully selected civilians skilled in karate travel to Hawaii to rescue the daughter of a U.S. senator from white slavers.
  4. Episode 4: 4. The DefectorJanuary 5, 1984 · 60 min
    Lavender and Co. substitute a double for a Russian physicist planning to defect. Susan George and Kai Wulff get the main guest assignments this outing, as, respectively, a female bodyguard and a KGB assassin out to eliminate defectors. Lavender & Co. and their recruits use a “ringer” to impersonate a defecting Russian physicist and thereby convince the KGB hit men they've done their job.
  5. Episode 5: 5. Caribbean HolidayJanuary 12, 1984 · 60 min
    Lavender (Rod Taylor) and his civilian team board a cruise ship on a dangerous mission to capture a traitor and abort the military takeover of a small Caribbean republic.
  6. Episode 6: 6. Five DaysJanuary 19, 1984 · 60 min
    Casey goes undercover in a Portuguese prison as Lavender and his team work to free an NIA agent carrying a microchip with information on a missing submarine. Guests: Joe Santos, Maggie Roswell.
Show 7 more episodes
  1. Episode 7: 7. OilJanuary 26, 1984
  2. Episode 8: 8. The French ConnectionMarch 30, 1984 · 60 min
    Lavender and team attempt to stop a French crime syndicate that has hijacked an Africa-bound shipment of anti-cholera serum to sell to the Cubans. Guests: Tony Franciosa, Elaine Joyce.
  3. Episode 9: 9. WinningsApril 6, 1984 · 60 min
    Lavender and a team of gamblers try to break a Monte Carlo casino whose owner (Lloyd Bochner) plans to give top military secrets to the Soviets. Guests: Lloyd Bochner, Claude Akins, Martin Milner.
  4. Episode 10: 10. The SleeperApril 13, 1984 · 60 min
    Lavender, the guy who hires civilians to go on dangerous missions, rounds up another group for a far-fetched plot: Convince an American general, who's a double agent with the Russians, that the KGB is about to wipe him out.
  5. Episode 11: 11. Spanish GambitApril 20, 1984 · 60 min
    Lavender and team race against time to alter the programming of a hijacked satellite defense system before it is sold to the Russians. Guests: Alejandro Rey, Michael Constantine.
  6. Episode 12: 12. FlashpointApril 27, 1984 · 60 min
    Lavender recruits a dentist, a detective and a cab driver to travel with him to Rio to find out who's leaking government secrets to the Russians.
  7. Episode 13: 13. Spying Down to RioMay 4, 1984 · 60 min
    The murder of an American embassy secretary brings Lavender and his civilian team to Rio during Mardi Gras to find a security leak and keep a Touchstone computer code out of enemy hands. Lavender and a Russian intelligence agent become partners on a mission to keep a KGB general from building a nuclear weapon.

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EPISODE LENGTH
60 minutes
FIRST AIRED
December 15, 1983
LAST AIRED
May 4, 1984

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