O Mighty F-list

[donutsweeper]

I need help coming up with tv shows that have spies or secret agents in it.  So far I've worked ten into a story (including Jack) and have a few more to try to slip in, but I have to be forgetting some.  Help!!

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[theninth.livejournal.com]

What've you got so far?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I haven't used them all but my list includes:
get smart
avengers
the sand baggers
the prisoner
sapphire and steel
man from u.n.c.l.e.
la femme nikita
scarecrow and mrs king
wiseguy
I spy
inspector gadget
mi-5/spooks
and Jack from torchwood of course

[thaddeusfavour.livejournal.com]

Well, not knowing which ones you've done already, I'll just list the ones I know off the top of my head. Not sure how broad or narrow you're defining the genre, so I'll include Charlie's Angels.

Burn Notice (current)
Man From UNCLE
Get Smart
I Spy
Secret Agent Man (Called Danger Man in the UK)
Mission: Impossible
Wild Wild West
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Charlie's Angels
Knight Rider (? - Maybe?)
Chuck (current)
24 (current)
Barbary Coast
Bionic Woman
Six Million Dollar Man
Cover Up
The Invisible Man
Macgyver
The Prisoner
Airwolf

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh, good list! How could I have forgotten some of those!

[thaddeusfavour.livejournal.com]

Well, I cheated a little. I went to IMDB and searched "government agent" under the section of "plots".

Kim Possible (since I see you're using animated series)
Martin Mystery
Totally Spies

[thaddeusfavour.livejournal.com]

And are you kidding me? I had to dig back to the '70's to get most of those! Ah! I'm old! :P

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

You are smart, I didn't think f that. Actually, I've only vaguely even heard of those three though.

I think there'll probably be a point where it gets a bit silly, but oh well, the whole point of these kind of crack stories is playing spot the character

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

actually, it's the current ones I'd missed. and forgetting Wild Wild West is embarrassing since I actually even have a dvd of it out from Netflix right now

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

Just came downstairs from watching MI-5/Spooks. Series 2. Matthew MacFadyen's eyelashes are amazing. :P

Um, let's see...
Alias
24
Bones (they're government agents, I don't know about 'secret')
Spynet (Canadian kiddie show)
The Saint
Where in the World/Time is Carmen Sandiego?

I can think of more in movies and video games, but you're just looking for TV shows, yes?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

yeah- tv shows only. oooh The Saint! how could I forget that one!

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

P.S Espionage TV Series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Espionage_television_series)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*tips hat* oh you guys are so smart! thanks!

[thaddeusfavour.livejournal.com]

Which one? The movie or the TV show?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

tv show- and Robert Conrad's amazingly tight pants has nothing to do with my enjoyment of the show. Seriously though- the bad guy's a evil genius and a dwarf, there are all these cool devices, it's just a fun show

[thaddeusfavour.livejournal.com]

I had such a mad crush on Robert Conrad! They were re-running this just when I was reaching the age to go 'yum' over guys. Oh baby! Watched him in Black Sheep Squadron also. ::sigh::

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I loved that show too. The DVDs for Wild Wild West are great. There's even some audio commentary by Robert Conrad done for them

[hellenebright.livejournal.com]

Manhunt (set in WWII)
'Ello 'Ello (set in WWII)
Hannay (set between the wars, starred Robert Powell)
Reilly, Ace of Spies (Edwardian)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

ooh, I'll have to look those up, I'm only familiar with 'Allo 'Allo.

although I'm already up to 15 different fandoms. there should probably be a limit somewhere

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Don't know Wiseguy at all...

but there's a few on that list I could get very over excited about :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I have 18 in use now. Most are just a minor intro of the character, maybe with a line or two. It's more of a 'spot the character" kind of fic and not anything deep

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

*is all excited*
No posting the answers - when it done - until us Brits have had a chance to play though, please??

Pesky time difference!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

my plan way two different posts. So when you've read the piece you could then chose to click the link and see who is who

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

ooo Reilly Ace of Spies - Sam Neill - that takes me back *G*

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

hee I was almost suggesting that :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

it's a miniseries though. :( but yowsa - he looked yummy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reilly%2C_Ace_of_Spies)

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

brilliant minds think alike and all that

It may never amount to anything though. I can't decide if it's boring random crack or clever. I'll have rely on a beta's opinion for that when its further along

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

I think their definition is squiffy - I definitely remember it being on every Sunday for *ages* To me a mini-series is something like 4x 1.5 hour episodes instead of 6 hour long ones... He did indeed look yummy

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

hmmm, good point. according to wiki it was 12 episodes, with the first being "lengthier" than the others, which averaged 50 minutes. That's like a typical BBC season then

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Convention then was the 'pilots' or first episodes of things were like a movie so they were generally about 1.5 hours long. You remember that right??

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

yep. they were almost like movies in themselves.

Now I need to come up with a nickname for him though that will be easy enough to understand

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Who? Reilly??
Maybe something Jewish... you'd know better than me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Reilly

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

oh cool, he's a real guy! *hee* his history seems as muddled as Jack's though.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Oh yes - real person - did you not know? Silly question - don't answer that!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even heard of him or the Sam Neill show before today.

okay- I'm thinking 20 fandoms in 1200 or so words is probably a bit extreme...

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

But totally do-able *nods*

*hands donuts*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

thank you. I'll need them!

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

No problem. Another one I can think of that isn't on there is Wish Me Luck (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_Me_Luck), which is about British women in WWII who go undercover in France. I'm guessing it's not helping you much just telling you names, though, you want to write the characters from them too. But! I thought I'd mention it anyway.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

well, it's all a matter of how much info I can find on the show. Some pretty popular shows it's next to impossible to find anything about. Really there's nothing in depth with my story- just a nod to a zillion different characters

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

Zorro!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*snerk* can you imagine Jack responding to that cape?

[hellenebright.livejournal.com]

Sam Neill. Always worth watching :)

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

*nods*
I don't go out of my way to watch things just because he's in them (I don't do that for anyone) but yeah *G*

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Sidney Reilly probably inspired a lot of interesting characters, but he was definitely a case of truth being more interesting than fiction!

I was prepared to throw all these titles at you, but it seems you're covered. Have fun!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I've read up a bit on him now, he seems fascinating.

the story's done and off to beta. 1300 words, 21 fandoms. *hides*

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Not many people watched it, but do you by any chance remember a short-lived USA show called Cover Me? It was about basically an entire family that did undercover work for the FBI.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

that sounds really familiar- but maybe I'm merging it in my mind. I remember a "Cover Up" tv show, not "cover me"

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Cover Up was the show from the eighties with Jon-Erik Hexum, the actor from Voyagers! who accidentally killed himself by shooting himself in the head with a blank. It was undercover fashion models and photographers. Cover Me was 2000-01.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*sigh* that's right, I loved Voyagers! And Cover Up, I remember his death- that was horrible.

Oh, I found it (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233491/)at imdb. I remember it, sort of. I know I watched an episode or two