"Favorite Spy-Fi TV Series? The Avengers!" Topic

You were asked – TMP link

Favorite fictional spy serial from the small screen?

And in the final round of voting:

32% said "Avengers, The (1961-69)"
29% said "Get Smart (1965-70)"
15% said "Man From U.N.C.L.E., The (1964-68)"

Wot! No Jim Phelps Mission Impossible? Peter Graves naturally.

Watched all three of the top ones listed. I liked UNCLE motor than get Smart.watch d but hated Wild Wild West. Yes it was considered a spy show back then.

I agree that the Man From U.N.C.L. E. Was a lot better than Get Smart.

What, no love for 'The Champions'? – Get Smart was awful!

Hey! Don't you go dissing my man Maxwell Smart!

Just remembered the show called the Prisoner. My what a brain teaser. The Star spoke at our university in 1975-76 year.

I feel The Avengers with Mrs. Peel were the better episodes. I agree Man from UNCLE was better than Get Smart.

I am not sure I would rate The Prisoner as a spy-fi show. Yes, it's basis was a spy retiring, being abducted, and then waking up in The Village (actually prison). Most of the episodes either were his various attempts at escaping or outwitting the current No.2. Not exactly your run of the mill spy-fi show.

I have never watched the Avengers in my life. Never realized it was so popular today.

I enjoyed the Avengers and agree with gamertom regarding Mrs.Peel and have a DVD box set of 16 discs called The Emma Peel Collection.
Two excellent series which I don't think are mentioned are Spy-Catcher a BBC series 1959-61 that featured Bernard Archard as WW2 British intelligence interrogator Lt-Col Oreste Pinto. The other was the excellent 1970s Australian TV show Spyforce with Jack Thompson and Peter Sumner as intelligence operatives working behind the lines in Japanese held territory.

The Star spoke at our university in 1975-76 year

That would be Patrick McGoohan.

Yep, he read poetry.

I get one of those retro TV stations on the dish at the cottage – they recently started showing The Avengers from the beginning – 1961 – Honor Blackman before Diana Rigg. Diana Rigg was the best Bond "Girl" ever. One of may favourite series was from 1971 – Bearcats! with Rod Taylor. couple of guys doing undercover assignments in the US Southwest and Mexico just before US entry into WW1 – lots of baddies – Imperial German advisors to Mexican Federales etc. Was a fun series.

I remember Bearcats. Fun show.

If you're talking Patrick McGoohan I preferred his 1960s spy series, Danger Man; 'My name is Drake, John Drake.' He was an intelligence agent for NATO brought in as he said to handle 'messy jobs.' Cracking show.

Patrick McGoohan – great actor. He stole Braveheart as Edward I. Did same great roles on Columbo.