There's always been that one TV series I watched that was involving secret agents and spies. It was La Femme Nikita when I was a kid, Chuck when I was a teen, Agent Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Homeland in my early twenties. Unfortunately, I've already picked most of these so for this week's
Thursday Movie Picks, the series hosted by
Wandering Through the Shelves, I'm going with shows I want(ed) to watch but never started.
(Plots are taken straight from IMDb as I'm yet to see them)
Deutschland 83 (2015)
Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) is recruited by the HVA to infiltrate the West Germany army. As a rookie spy, his decisions constantly put his cover at risk and force his agency to take extreme measures.
Deutschland 86 (2018)
Abandoned by Moscow and desperate for cash, the East German leadership pushes their secret operatives to experiment with global capitalism and save their sinking socialist ship. Long banished to Africa for his sins in 1983, Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay) is now sent back into the field.
Mission: Impossible (1988-1990)
An elite covert operations unit carries out highly sensitive missions subject to official denial in the event of failure, death or capture.
I haven't seen any of these either, but the Deutschland ones sound the most interesting.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the reviews I read they are pretty good too.
DeleteI barely remember the '88 version of Mission: Impossible. I very well remember the original series from the 60s. That was great television.
ReplyDeleteI’m starting to think I picked the wrong series now 😅
DeleteI ended up having to include a series I haven't seen yet, too - which was Chuck! I'm going to start watching it soon :)
ReplyDeleteI hope you’ll enjoy it! I loved it :)
DeleteThe German TV shows sound great. I watched some of the newer MI but I always liked the original even if they both starred Peter Graves
ReplyDeleteI picked the wrong MI 😅
DeleteThe first two are new to me but I watched a smattering of the 80's Mission: Impossible which was missing the snap of the original. Now that show I was an ardent fan of even if I can't stand what they've done to the concept with the crappy Cruise films.
ReplyDeleteI'm not to knowledgeable of recent TV spy shows but like the genre and when I was a kid they were thick on the airwaves so I went back to the 60's and three that I loved. I thought of the original Mission: Impossible but I'd used it before.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-1968)-Secret agents Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) work for secret international counterespionage and law-enforcement agency U.N.C.L.E. (United Network Command for Law and Enforcement) under the direction of Alexander Waverly (Leo G. Carroll) to battle evil organizations such as THRUSH and other nefarious forces that threaten freedom with much gadgetry thrown in. A trendsetting hit in its day this received a decent big screen treatment in 2015.
It Takes a Thief (1968-1970)-Sleek international thief Alexander Mundy (Robert Wagner) temporarily incarcerated is offered a deal by Noah Bain (Malachi Thorne) head of the Secret Intelligence Agency (SIA) to be free if he steals important information or objects for the government. Breezy, stylish series globetrots around the world providing a time capsule of 60’s high fashion and high quality guest stars (among them Bette Davis, Teri Garr & Suzanne Pleshette) and in the later episodes Fred Astaire as Mundy’s master thief father Alistair.
Get Smart (1965-1970)- Maxwell Smart (Don Adams), a highly intelligent but bumbling spy works for CONTROL, battling the evil forces of rival spy agency KAOS with the help of his chic and competent partner Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon) while their often exasperated Chief (Edward Platt) looks on. Daffy fun with Adams’ deadpan delivery even under the most extreme conditions priceless. Tons of cool gadgets, gotta love the shoe phone!
The original Mission: Impossible is actually the one I want to see. I picked the wrong one haha
DeleteI haven't seen any of these shows either and I didn't know that Mission: Impossible had a series!
ReplyDeleteHere’s my Thursday Movie Picks!
Ronyell @ The Surreal Movies and TV Blog
There’s even two of them!
DeleteI definitely recommend Deutschland 83 and 86. Rauch journey as a reluctant spy was interesting and so is seeing what it must have been like and the contrast between East and West Germany then.
ReplyDeleteThank you. I’ll make sure it check it out as soon as I can.
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