Double Agent

Double Agent
Air date	12 January 1969
Written by	Tony Barwick
Directed by	Ken Turner
Edited by	Len Cleal
Production Order
previous	King For A Day
next	Most Special Astronaut
Broadcast Order
previous	Arctic Adventure
next	Three's A Crowd

Double Agent is the 16th broadcast episode and 12th produced episode of British television series Joe 90.

Plot

Joe 90's life is in danger when he is given the brain patterns of a double agent. Instructions are given, "Shoot on sight!"

Synopsis

When three W.I.N. couriers are shot and their dispatch cases stolen from them, Shane Weston begins to wonder if there is a traitor in the Courier Department. The situation is now acute because there is a particularly big assignment coming up. New codes and cypher tapes have to be taken to the whole of W.I.N.'s eastern network. It's so important that Harry Sloane, head of the Courier Department, says he will do the job himself, but Shane Weston refuses to allow this. Instead, Harry Sloane's brain patterns are transferred to Joe 90, who sets off on the assignment. Joe's movements are puzzling. When he gets to Paris, he changes 'planes and goes to Copenhagen, and then gives W.I.N.'s men the slip. Now he is in dire danger because it becomes clear that Harry Sloane himself is the double agent, and Joe is acting as if he were Sloane. Copenhagen receives instructions from W.I.N. headquarters to put out a C48 on Joe, it's a red priority to all W.I.N. agents, "Shoot target on sight!" Professor McClaine and Sam Loover have a nightmare chase to try to reach the boy before the instructions can be carried out, but the double-dealing Harry Sloane himself gets to Joe first. In a fight, Joe is disarmed and loses his glasses, which means that he no longer thinks like Harry Sloane. But how are the other agents to know this? When Sloane manages to get away with the case, the situation looks desperate. But there is a remote control "destruct" system in the case which is put into operation. The case explodes and destroys the helicopter carrying Sloane. Joe's life has not been risked in vain, the guilty man has been found and destroyed!

Cast

Regular Cast

Joe McClaine
(Len Jones)

Professor Ian McClaine
(Rupert Davies)

Ada Harris
(Sylvia Anderson)

Sam Loover
(Keith Alexander)

Shane Weston
(David Healy)

Guest Cast

Courier A14
(Keith Alexander)

Miller
(Jeremy Wilkin)

Sherman
(Keith Alexander)

Harry Sloane
(Jeremy Wilkin)

Dr. Newman
(Keith Alexander)

Radio Control
(Shane Rimmer)

Stewardess
(Sylvia Anderson)

Cameo Roles

Airline passengers

Equipment Used

Exploding briefcase

Airliner

"Sea Horse"
(motor boat)

Helijet

Locations

Paris airport

Dr. Newman's
(Copenhagen)

Trivia

• Mrs. Harris’s line about Joe telling her about “Flying planes and doing brain operations” refers to the events of Splashdown and Operation McClaine.
• Symphony Angel appears as one of the Airline passengers.

v - e - d

Characters World Intelligence Network: Joe McClaine • Professor Ian McClaine • Sam Loover • Shane Weston Others: Ada Harris Revamp Puppets Episodes The Most Special Agent • Most Special Astronaut • Project 90 • Hi-Jacked • Colonel McClaine • The Fortress • King For A Day • International Concerto • Splashdown • Big Fish • Relative Danger • Operation McClaine • The Unorthodox Shepherd • Business Holiday • Arctic Adventure • Double Agent • Three's A Crowd • The Professional • The Race • Talkdown • Breakout • Child Of The Sun God • See You Down There • Lone-Handed 90 • Attack Of The Tiger • Viva Cordova • Mission X-41 • Test Flight • Trial At Sea • The Birthday Compilation Film The Amazing Adventures of Joe 90 Equipment BIG RAT • Joe's Glasses • Joe's Case Vehicles Mac's Car • Sam Loover's Car Locations McClaine's Cottage • W.I.N. Headquarters