On television the first serious attempt to show the work of the Immigration Service was the 1959 BBC series The Net which was what might be termed now as a drama-doc.

Harry Venning writing in The Stage proclaimed the series a cut above the standard drama-doc complementing the sparing use of claustrophobically set dramatic recreations and Nathaniel Parker's suggestive performance but proclaiming that it was Robert Pugh's sneering, swaggering, unrepentant portrayal of Göring that stole the show.