Anyone who has any really good recommendations let me know what they are and I will put them on my list.
Danger Man/The Prisoner. I always conflate the two shows, although there are those who say I shouldn’t.
I recently watched the series “The Enemy Within” a NBC network series. Watched it on demand. Thought it pretty good.
I Spy
The Prisoner
MI5
Most of them are basically propaganda, making sure we all understand how the intelligence community keeps us safe.
Those kind of programs have sprouted up like mushrooms as the National Security state has exploded.
All part of that silly, “if we could only know what they did” mentality.
But I guess if I had to pick it would be Colonel Flagg from MASH.
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Secret City on Netflix from Australia is very good. A good political thriller.
Netflix “A Very Secret Service”
Really funny series set in 1960 about the French Intelligence Agency.
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
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.
“Strike back”
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.
Mr. Palfrey of Westminster.
The early seasons of Homeland were outstanding but the show has taken a far-left turn in recent years.
Man In The High Castle (what life would be like in post-WWII America had the Nazis and Japanese had won the war) is one of the best shows on Amazon Prime.
You will like “Traitors.” It’s about the post-WW II world with the Cold War and spy craft just getting started.
Wiki...”Traitors is a British television drama miniseries created by Bathsheba Doran and broadcast by Channel 4 and Netflix in 2019. Set in 1945 London after the end of World War Two, Traitors follows on a young woman recruited by the American Office of Strategic Services to identify a Soviet spy in the Cabinet Office.”
I really enjoyed Season 1. You aren’t quite sure who the good guys and bad guys are until the end of the season. It’s quite fascinating watching the young woman getting recruited and her learning it’s a one-way street.
“Reilly, Ace of Spies”, Sam Neill as Sidney Reilly, early-mid ‘80s on PBS.
Ian Fleming said something like he was a real James Bond, nearly brought down thw Bolsheviks single handed.
My all time favorite was The Man From UNCLE.
Don’t watch “What/If” with Renee Zellweger. It was like a Lifetime movie. It was recommended on another page and I ended up watching the whole thing just because I was curious about how they were going to end it.