Your top ten spy tv shows
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Just to complement the Top Ten Spy Films, what are your top ten tv shows?
I'm excluding shows about playboy adventurers (The Saint, The Persuaders, The Adventurer, The Baron, The Protectors etc) as they're not secret agents as such... But everything else is fair game.
For me, they are:
10. Get Smart
9. The Champions
8. A Man Called Sloane
7. The Avengers
6. I Spy
5. Mission: Impossible
4. Alias
3. Danger Man
2. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1. The Prisoner (I know that's stretching it a bit but hey...)
I'm excluding shows about playboy adventurers (The Saint, The Persuaders, The Adventurer, The Baron, The Protectors etc) as they're not secret agents as such... But everything else is fair game.
For me, they are:10. Get Smart
9. The Champions
8. A Man Called Sloane
7. The Avengers
6. I Spy
5. Mission: Impossible
4. Alias
3. Danger Man
2. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1. The Prisoner (I know that's stretching it a bit but hey...)
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Definitely be, ....
1, Spooks
2, The six million dollar man
3, The Avengers
4, Mission Impossible
5, Search Control. ( probe in USA )
6, The piglet files
7, Department S
8, The Champions
9, The man from uncle
10, a man called Sloane
(1) man from uncle
(2) Charley Farley @Piggy Malone (the 2 Ronnies)
(3)Knight Rider
(4)Callan with Edward Woodward ,was it a spy show ?
(5)spooks
(6)mission impossible
(7)special branch, with George Sewell and Patrick Mower ,well they are sort of spooks
(8)The proffesionals with Bodie and Doyle
(9)the invaders (he worked for the Govt I think
(10) the Avengers
I also wonder if anyone has followed the new series "The Americans". Is it as good as they say?
In the same way most real police work would be boring to watch, but the "fantasy"
Spy and Police dramas are fantastic. I remember in an interview for Spooks. A
Producer pointed out he'd been told most MI5 work is sitting in cars and vans
Watching suspects. Which wouldn't make a great TV show.
They could have revived it with a character who was the son of Purdey and Gambit.
Your right there TP most obs work (observation duties) means sitting very still and quiet in a building ,bush, van ,
for hours on end ,I once was put into a dental surgery that overlooked a bank ,the dentist was very co-operative
so theres me with sarnies ,flask ,radio ,binoculars ect ect finding me way around this building in the dark ,
obviously cant use the lights or torches, or pull the chain in the loo
As far as Spooks goes, they also said, if orders were given for an assassination
( not that that ever happens ) MI5, don't do it, it's handed over to the army. Still
It's not meant to be factual, rather to be entertaining for an hour.
After the show was first shown, they had a massive increase in people looking
To join MI5.
Did you know that the fictional foyer in the spooks HQ is actually the foyer of the British head quarters of the Freemasons
in Great Queen St in Covent Garden , and not many people know that
Order some of Amazon.
Thought I'd post this link, as there are so many great shows I'd forgotten.
a prime example.
Great choices from the heyday of spy tv series! -{
Danger Man (probably my favorite)
The Prisoner
Burn Notice
The Avengers
The New Avengers
Callan
Archer
Jason King
I Spy
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