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Not when you have the likes of Callan, or McGill from 'Man in a Suitcase'.

Quiller, by Adam Hall. He is the best spy, could take Bond-boy no bother Sorry, he's not spy, but a shadow executive Until later....
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Oooo...I'd forgotten all about Callan!

Callan, Harry Palmer...who could forget George Smiley?

Yeah George Smiley was quite good shame he meet his end when he encountered Darth Vader though.

Forgive me Sir Alec for I know not what I'm doing.

*Strong is the Force with this one, but impetuous is he*

Huh?

John Drake ..... was he a spy?

Well, anyroadup, he was bazzing and even better when he became Number 6.

DD, how can you mention those two roles in the same breath....
Smiley is brilliant

Hey I have the complete Le Carre books in one volume. I wasn't mocking too much. It's just the BBC's visual rendering of Smiley ended up wearing a monks habit in the Tunisian dessert that's all.

The complete Le Carre or the complete Smiley? the former would be a pretty huge book by now

the music was good though...

Ok the complete Smiley!! I missed that bit out above

*backpedals a bit*

Wasn't The Prisoner a spin-off of Man In A Suitcase? Or one 'inspired' the other?

And when will we get to see MIAS again? Mr BBC? hello?

They put Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy on over christmas but never at one time, meaning that I missed two consecutive episodes and gave up in the end. I went and brought the book instead.

I mean 7.30pm one night, 9.00pm the next and 8.00pm the night after.

No connection between (the ace) Man in a Suitcase and The Prisoner. Everyone reckons The Prisoner is a spin-off from Danger Man/Secret Agent, but the creator of The Prisoner has always strenuously denied it and there's nothing on screen to suggest it.

Why has no-one mentioned John Steed (Patrick Macnee) in this thread yet? The Avengers is at least the equal of all the above TV series...

For some reason I have a memory of a BBC theme night, where they showed a programme that wasn't The Prisoner, but was similar to it. Maybe it wasn't MIAS. It could even have been an episode of The Prisoner...

So, are any of the Italics going to ask the new boss when he's going to show Man In A Suitcase again? Or is his mind on higher things?

You beat me to the John Steed reference!

Can you imagine what British Intelligence would be like if it were inhabited by the likes of Drake, Steed, Callan, Palmer etc...all being run by kindly old George Smiley?

Awesome. Anyone feel like doing some collaborative fiction to realise that dream?

There's a bit in one of the 60s Avengers books which is a flashback to Steed's schooldays. He teaches the school bully, one 'J Bond', the error of his ways in a bout of fisticuffs.

BBC2 did an ITC theme night in 1994 where they showed an episode of MIAS and also the Danger Man episode Colony Three, a very Prisoneresque story about a British provincial town built in Siberia where Soviet agents were trained to blend into British society. That's probably the one you're thinking of.