Country: United States Director: Allen Coulter Starring: James Badge Dale, Peter Gerety, Jessica Collins, Lauren Hodges, Dallas Roberts, Christopher Evan Welch, Arliss Howard Music: Peter Nashel Writer: Jason Horwitch Creator: Jason Horwitch Rubicon is a hard series to describe in a few short paragraphs. Plotwise, not too much happens – but I’ll get to that [...]
Country: United States Director: Robert Totten Starring: Peter Graves, Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bradford Dillman, Emile Genst, Peter Coe, Peter Hellmann Theme: Lalo Schifrin Music: Jerry Fielding Recovery is the last episode from Season Two of Mission: Impossible and it features Bradford Dillman as a brilliant American scientist who has defected [...]
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Tagged Bradford Dillman, Mission: Impossible, Peter Graves, Television Series
Tagged Bradford Dillman, Mission: Impossible, Peter Graves, Television Series
Director: John T. Kretchmer Starring: Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Michael Steger, Lana Parrilla, Julian Acosta Music: Christopher Tyng South Bound Suarez (notice the ‘Led Zep’ titles?) is the third episode in the Covert Affairs television series, and easily the weakest of the series so far. The underlying story arc that is [...]
Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá Starring: Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Sendhil Ramamurthyy, Anne Dudek, Peter Gallagher, Steven Brand, Rya Kihlstedt Music: Christopher Tyng Walter’s Walk is the second episode in the Covert Affairs television series, and the first to feature a Led Zepplin song title as the episode title. This episode begins with a [...]
28Jul10
Covert Affairs: Pilot (2010)
Director: Tim Matheson Starring: Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham, Kari Matchett, Eric Lively, Anne Dudek, Peter Gallagher, George Tchortov, Eion Bailey, Emmanuelle Vaugier Music: Christopher Tyng Covert Affairs is the latest spy series to go to air, and the general consensus appears to be that the show is extremely enjoyable. But already quite a few people [...]
20May10
Matt Helm: Pilot (1975)
Release Year: (1975) Country: United States Director: Buzz Kulik Starring: Anthony Franciosa, Anne Turkel, John Vernon, Patrick Macnee Music: Jerry Fielding Based on characters created by Donald Hamilton I had heard a lot about this Matt Helm series – most of it was bad. The biggest complaint seemed to be that Matt Helm was no [...]
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Tagged Matt Helm, Patrick Macnee, Television Series, Tony Franciosa
Tagged Matt Helm, Patrick Macnee, Television Series, Tony Franciosa
28Apr10
Slash and Burn
Author: Matt Hilton Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Release Year: 2010 Slash and Burn is the third novel in Matt Hilton’s Joe Hunter series following on from Dead Men’s Dust and Judgement and Wrath. Is Joe Hunter a spy? No, but that brings up an interesting question. What constitutes a spy story. If you’ll forgive me [...]
Country: United States Director: Paul Stanley Starring: Peter Graves, Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Paul Stevens, Vincent Gardenia, Nick Colasanta, Paul Lambert, Vic Perrin, Joan Staley, Stuart Nisbet, Robert Phillips, Eduardo Cianelli Mission Impossible Theme: Lalo Schifrin Music: Jerry Fielding The poster above is a bit of a jib. It is a [...]
Here’s a little piece I wrote earlier this year for Wes Britton’s Spywise website, where he invited spy fans from all around the world to look back at the most influential spy films, television shows and books of the first decade of the 21st Century. Due to the format the final piece took, this article [...]
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Posted in Film and Cinema, Television
Tagged Daniel Craig, George Clooney, Jack Ryan, James Bond, Matt Damon, Robert Ludlum, Television Series, Tom Clancy, Tony Scott
Tagged Daniel Craig, George Clooney, Jack Ryan, James Bond, Matt Damon, Robert Ludlum, Television Series, Tom Clancy, Tony Scott
Flash Gordon Television Series – Race Against Time Country: United States Director: Gunther V. Fritsch Starring: Steve Holland, Joe Nash, Irene Champlain Music: Roger Roger Theme: Kurt Heuser Based on characters by Alex Raymond In the year 3063, after years of interplanetary war, the planets are now a ‘Galaxy of Peace’ thanks to the Galactic [...]
