The Masterspy - "Assassination Attempt on Moneypacker" - ITV 14th April 1979

[@stevolution666]

Finally I’ve got some time to catch up with the TV I missed just before I was born

[@paulhirst7602]

Great show, thanks for uploading. I was half expecting Rodney, Boycie, Denzel and trigger to come into shot at any moment in this one.

[@Mishima505]

You plonker!

[@syferdet]

29:20 The reaction in the background that can be heard on the mic makes it sound like the line was ad libbed.

[@stephenfenwick4309]

William Franklyn's daughter Sabina was married to John Challis (Boycie)... this was 1979 so pre OFAH

[@fizzbinuk2814]

William 'Shh you know who' Franklyn doing the voice-over on the first advert too.

[@adamstamps3568]

oh aye the shhhhweeps advart

[@anthonybailey1966]

@@adamstamps3568 not on this occasion,it's a Polyfilla Molto advert!

[@LanceReardon]

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]

Worth pointing out that David Jason didn't actually write Danger Mouse, so the naming of Penfold was nothing to do with him :)

[@LanceReardon]

@@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...

[@Mishima505]

@@dunebasher1971 I was hoping that the contestant Penfold would not stop talking just so David could say "shush Penfold"!!

[@csb7376]

William Franklyn also voiced Danger Mouse in the pilot. Too many coincidences for it all not to be related somehow.

[@johntitor.]

I vaguely remember this but I was very young.

[@DBIVUK]

Think this is actually from 17 September 1977 - the second episode in the first series.

[@dunebasher1971]

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.

[@VanSolo-uk]

Adam Chance

[@mikemartin2957]

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" !

[@chriswaring5565]

G-G-G-G-GRANVILLE F-F-F-F-F FETCH YER CLOTH TONY ADAMS FROM CROSSROADS

[@adamstamps3568]

i thought it was gonna be a drama dident expect a spy game show

[@dunebasher1971]

The video description offers a fairly sizeable clue :)

[@adamstamps3568]

@@dunebasher1971 but even so to a new viewer to the masterspy series it does start out as a drama lol