Home›TV Shows›MasqueradeMasquerade19831 season · 13 episodes7.5EndedAction & AdventureDramaAdd to My ListMasquerade is an American espionage television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983.PlayTrailerShareWatch nowS1 E1PilotServersVidLinkS1 E1Auto-play nextEpisodes — season 11231E1E160mNow playingPilotThe 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.2E2E2DiamondsLavender 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.3E3E360mGirls for SaleMasquerade 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.4E4E460mThe DefectorLavender 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.5E5E560mCaribbean HolidayLavender (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.6E6E660mFive DaysCasey 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.Top billed castRod TaylorLavenderKirstie AlleyCasey CollinsGreg EviganDanny DoyleDetailsStatusEndedFirst air dateDecember 15, 1983Last air dateMay 4, 1984NetworkABCCreatorGlen A. LarsonOriginal languageenSeasons1 season · 13 episodesEpisode runtime~60mMore like this7.2The New Avengers19767.8The Avengers19616.7Scarecrow and Mrs. King19837.6Mission: Impossible19667.6Mission: Impossible19886.9Mannix19677.7MacGyver19856.7Sea Hunt19587.3MacGyver20167.2It Takes a Thief19687.2S.W.A.T.19756.5I Spy1965
