As Dan says below "Amazon will get you there" but you need the Paramount upgrade. Fortunately a big box store throws in a subscription if you subscribe to their home delivery.
Don’t miss The Sandbaggers, a 1970s British spy series. Amazon will get you there, but you may need a Britbox upgrade. YouTube may have selected episodes.
Anyway: it’s fabulous. Yes, yes, it often looks like they spent about five dollars on sets and lighting, and there are few expensive in-the-field action scenes.
But the palace intrigue, the infighting, the struggles with keeping the service going amid 1970s malaise, budget cuts, all of it, the writing usually is spellbinding.
Another, also British, is The Game. It’s different, more personal, for some reason the boss of the unit is referred to simply as ‘Daddy.’
But it’s good too in a different way. But as with The Sandbaggers, in The Game the Communist enemy really is something to be resolutely opposed, not ‘understood’ as simply another way to organize a country. Nor are the bad guys portrayed as some rogue element within an otherwise equivalent Russian service, no, the KGB men in The Game really are evil and destructive.
I need to go start my day, but we should talk more on these subjects in future.
While you’re riding around in the car, the International Spy Museum has a lot of good talks by various “formers” — former intelligence officers and adjacent others on their Spycast series:
But there’s a lot of fluff, you know, stuff about James Bond’s girls or cars.
You might like Spyscape a lot better. The stories told, often by the same people, are enhanced with music and sound effects, making the tale they tell more like an old-time radio drama.
Some are unexciting, some are startling, riveting yet true stories
Took your advice and watched Black Bag Sunday evening. Brilliant!! Thanks for a great recommendation, Paul!
Re: The Agency
As Dan says below "Amazon will get you there" but you need the Paramount upgrade. Fortunately a big box store throws in a subscription if you subscribe to their home delivery.
I frankly can't keep all the channels straight. Thank God for my wife handling all that.
Don’t miss The Sandbaggers, a 1970s British spy series. Amazon will get you there, but you may need a Britbox upgrade. YouTube may have selected episodes.
Anyway: it’s fabulous. Yes, yes, it often looks like they spent about five dollars on sets and lighting, and there are few expensive in-the-field action scenes.
But the palace intrigue, the infighting, the struggles with keeping the service going amid 1970s malaise, budget cuts, all of it, the writing usually is spellbinding.
Another, also British, is The Game. It’s different, more personal, for some reason the boss of the unit is referred to simply as ‘Daddy.’
But it’s good too in a different way. But as with The Sandbaggers, in The Game the Communist enemy really is something to be resolutely opposed, not ‘understood’ as simply another way to organize a country. Nor are the bad guys portrayed as some rogue element within an otherwise equivalent Russian service, no, the KGB men in The Game really are evil and destructive.
Ooh, that sounds v good. Will do. I liked the Alec Guinness, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" as well.
I need to go start my day, but we should talk more on these subjects in future.
While you’re riding around in the car, the International Spy Museum has a lot of good talks by various “formers” — former intelligence officers and adjacent others on their Spycast series:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-UEBNs3VfYGuMMaXg1NFw/videos
But there’s a lot of fluff, you know, stuff about James Bond’s girls or cars.
You might like Spyscape a lot better. The stories told, often by the same people, are enhanced with music and sound effects, making the tale they tell more like an old-time radio drama.
Some are unexciting, some are startling, riveting yet true stories
https://m.youtube.com/@SPYSCAPE/videos
Thanks Dan. I'll share with my best half for our evening viewing.