FAVORITE CABLE & TV SPY SERIES SHOWS

Vanity | 06-15-2019 | Captain Peter Blood

[mylife]

[AzIrish]

Secret City on Netflix from Australia is very good. A good political thriller.

[wally_bert]

A good series.

Sandbaggers is a big favorite of mine even as dated as the series is.

[Boiler Plate]

Netflix “A Very Secret Service”
Really funny series set in 1960 about the French Intelligence Agency.

[wally_bert]

MI5 is one I forgot about.

[Waverunner]

Blue Light with Robert Goulet as an American posing as a traitor in Germany during WW2. Bad 60’s TV that is great. And of course Wonder Woman, working undercover during WW2 during one season and in modern 70’s times in the next. But the best two star Patrick McGoohan, as Secret Agent during the late 50’s, early sixties, and in The Prisoner in the mid 60’s. definitely not #6

[wally_bert]

If you want James Bond, go to a library - Neil Burnside.

[mylife]

Generally, you never know.

[Doctor DNA]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NdyAq12AwY Spook Movie! Underrated and Rare but Worth watching: Hopscotch .... Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them. With stars: Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Ned Beatty -

[mylife]

[PUGACHEV]

I always thought that Smiley’s People, the follow-on series by the BBC to Tinker, Taylor, was the gold standard for spy flix. My second choice would be the original The Jackal (1973) with Edward Fox and Michael Lonsdale.

[sheana]

La Femme Nikita was my fave show. Came on Sunday nights at 10. I made sure I was showered, in my jammies, and settled in bed by 10:50 waiting for it. 😂

[Bonemaker]

👍

[sheana]

That would be 9:50. Lol

[LeoTDB69]

Thanks for this thread. Definitely got some good suggestions reading thru. I don’t see much TV lately so I’m not up an alot of newer shows.

The Blacklist is probably my favorite show ongoing. James Spader is a phenomenal actor IMO. 24 was another show I got addicted to.

One short-lived show I got into early was Allegiance (around 2015) but they cancelled 5 episodes in. The remainder of season 1 they made available online after many complaints. It was about a young CIA operative who was unaware his family was a Soviet sleeper cell and when they woke up he was faced trying to balance loyalty to family and love of his country.

Stingray was a cool show, though poorly written and done, yet I loved the premise. Nick Mancuso played the lead, people contacted him by responding to 1966 Stingray for sale ad in the papers. He was kind of like the Don Corleone of PI’s. He helped people out for favors yet to be named rather than cash. The mystery around him was never answered in 2 seasons but even the FBI came up empty trying to ID him. Like I said, the show was poorly written but the potential was there.

Also liked the original Equalizer series from the 1980’s starring Edward Woodward.

[Let's Roll]

“Strike back”

[Let's Roll]

DITTO!

[FlyCaster]

Yes, yes, yes. The original version for TV, Tinker Tailor with Alec Guinness is absolutely phenomenal. The characters and the acting just stick with you over the years: Ricki Tarr: “I have a story for you Mr. Smiley”, and Control, dying and crazed that there was a spy in the Circus: “There were 3 of them and Alleline”. And Bill Hayden with his biscuit on top of the teacup, and Toby Esterhase with his “I do my job, George”, and Roy Bland, the cynic, and the night scene where an angry Guillam drove Smiley out into the poring rain to brief Lacon, and Karla. And, “Give my best to Ann, George.” What a production. I think it was PBS. Over several weeks. We are always spell bound when we replay it. Thank you for reminding us.

[fatman6502002]

I think the best TV spy drama’s ever were the early 80’s BBC produced “Smiley’s People” and “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”. Both of these masterpieces were 6 part miniseries staring Sir Alec Guiness as George Smiley.

[mewzilla]

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster.