William Franklyn is the ice-cool Major with the bone-dry wit in another edition of the espionage-themed quiz show. This one features David Jason and Tony "Crossroads" Adams in character roles.
Yes ,the late 70s was a busy time for Tony Adams as he was in a British Leyland training film made at Longbridge along with other well known characters from the 60s & 70s working on the shop floor! It's called " The Quality Connection" !
How utterly charming! Thank you for uploading these fantastic televisual treats! An interesting point to note that one of the contestants is named Penfold... David Jason, who appears in this episode, voiced ‘Danger Mouse’ in the cartoon series who had a sidekick named ‘Penfold.’ Wouldn’t it be simply marvellous if somehow that name had stuck in Mister Jason’s sub-conscious mind, only to re-appear years later, when coming up with names for his hamster chum on the cartoon! Do you have any more of these gems, perchance?
@@dunebasher1971 I take your point, but I like to imagine that perhaps David Jason, Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall meet by chance in a WH Smiths just before work begins on Danger Mouse. David’s in for his usual copy of Exchange and Mart while Brian and Mark are in for Toffos and a Texan Bar. They get to talking and David discovers that the two lads are finding it difficult coming up with a name for Danger Mouse’s sidekick... This jogs David’s memory; he remembers doing a ‘The Masterspy’ a while ago and one of the contestants was a distinctively small but very likeable chap called ‘Penfold’. At his suggestion, Brian and Mark love the name and are convinced that Danger Mouse’s hamster chum shall henceforth be known as: ‘Penfold’ and the rest, as they say is history! Well, it could have happened...
It appears that Masterspy was repeated, which was very unusual indeed for a quiz show in the era before satellite TV. This is very definitely an off-air from 14th April 1979; note the "Spring on ITV" promo for episode 2 of Kidnapped, and Barri Haynes' reference to an episode of Hawaii Five-O, both of which nail it to that date. TV Brain's entry on Masterspy (which is what I assume you're referring to) is wrong in a number of respects.