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Espionage or Spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, as the legitimate holder of the information may change plans or take other countermeasures once it...
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 22, 1964
Air date of final episode:
- Jan 15, 1968
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 4
Number of episodes:
- 105
The Prisoner
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory, and psychological...
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Air date of first episode:
- Oct 1, 1967
Air date of final episode:
- Feb 4, 1968
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 17
The Avengers
The Avengers is a British television adventure series about secret agents in 1960s Britain. The programmes were made by TV company ABC Weekend Television (from July 1968 they were produced by Thames Television), and created by its Head of Drama...
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Air date of first episode:
- 1961
Air date of final episode:
- 1969
Original episode running time:
- 50 min (30 hs ) ,
- more…
Number of episodes:
- 161
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). The leader of the...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 17, 1966
Air date of final episode:
- Mar 30, 1973
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 7
Number of episodes:
- 171
24
24 is an American serial action/drama television series. Broadcast by Fox in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes (the next 11 episodes were later ordered). 24 is the...
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Air date of first episode:
- Nov 6, 2001
Original episode running time:
- 45 min (27 hs ) ,
- more…
Number of seasons:
- 6
Number of episodes:
- 24
Spynet
Spynet is a CBC Television children's show, which features Sam, played by Kim Schraner, as a spy operative for a fictional Canadian spy agency, the National Espionage Task-Force (NET). It started as an ultra-low budget segment, of short length, but...
James Bond Jr.
James Bond Jr. is a fictional character described as the nephew of Ian Fleming's masterspy James Bond. The name "James Bond Junior" was first used in 1967 for an unsuccessful spinoff novel entitled 003½: The Adventures of James Bond Junior written...
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 16, 1991
Air date of final episode:
- Dec 13, 1991
Number of episodes:
- 65
MacGyver
MacGyver is an American action/adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff and executively produced by Henry Winkler and John Rich that aired on ABC. Seven seasons were produced, all of which were broadcast by American Broadcasting...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 29, 1985
Air date of final episode:
- May 21, 1992
Original episode running time:
- 45 min (27 hs ) ,
- more…
Number of seasons:
- 7
Number of episodes:
- 138
Get Smart
Get Smart is an American television comedy series that satirized the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, the show starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as Thaddeus, the chief...
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 18, 1965
Air date of final episode:
- Sep 11, 1970
Original episode running time:
- 25 min (15 hs ) ,
- more…
Number of seasons:
- 5
Number of episodes:
- 138
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scarecrow and Mrs. King is an American television series that aired from October 3, 1983, to May 28, 1987 on CBS. The show starred Kate Jackson and Bruce Boxleitner as divorced housewife Amanda King and top-level "Agency" operative Lee Stetson who...
Air date of first episode:
- Oct 3, 1983
Air date of final episode:
- May 28, 1987
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 4
Number of episodes:
- 88
Danger Man
Danger Man (titled Secret Agent, Destination Danger and John Drake in non-UK markets) is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 11, 1960
Air date of final episode:
- Jan 12, 1968
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 86
Alias
Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006. It starred Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a CIA agent.
The main theme of the series...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 30, 2001
Air date of final episode:
- May 22, 2006
Original episode running time:
- 45 min (27 hs ) ,
- more…
Number of seasons:
- 5
Number of episodes:
- 105
Airwolf
Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 through 1987. The program concerned a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and her crew as they undertook various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War theme....
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Air date of first episode:
- Jan 22, 1984
Air date of final episode:
- Aug 7, 1987
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 4
Number of episodes:
- 79
The Sandbaggers
The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 18, 1978
Air date of final episode:
- Jul 28, 1980
Number of seasons:
- 3
Number of episodes:
- 20
The Wild Wild West
The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons (104 episodes) from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969.
Developed at a time when the television western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 17, 1965
Air date of final episode:
- Apr 4, 1969
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 4
Number of episodes:
- 104
Spooks
Spooks is a BAFTA award-winning British television drama series produced by the independent production company Kudos for BBC One. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 Officers based at the...
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Air date of first episode:
- May 13, 2002
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 8
Number of episodes:
- 64
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp is an American television show that originally aired on ABC from September 12, 1970, to September 2, 1972. The Saturday morning live-action film series featured a cast of chimpanzees given apparent speaking roles by...
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 12, 1970
Air date of final episode:
- Sep 2, 1972
Original episode running time:
- 30 min (18 hs )
I Spy
I Spy is an American television secret agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott. In reality, they...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 15, 1965
Air date of final episode:
- Apr 15, 1968
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 3
Number of episodes:
- 82
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a spy novel by John le Carré, first published in 1974. It is the first volume of a three-book series informally known as The Karla Trilogy, followed by The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People. All three novels...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 10, 1979
Air date of final episode:
- Oct 22, 1979
Original episode running time:
- 50 min (30 hs )
Codename: Kids Next Door
Codename: Kids Next Door, also known as Kids Next Door or by its acronym KND, is an American animated television series created by Tom Warburton and produced by Curious Pictures. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 6, 2002 and aired...
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Air date of first episode:
- Dec 6, 2002
Air date of final episode:
- Jan 21, 2008
Original episode running time:
- 30 min (18 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 6
The Agency
The Agency is a CBS television drama that followed the inner-workings of the CIA. It aired from September 27, 2001 until May 17, 2003, lasting two seasons. It featured unprecedented filming from the actual CIA headquarters.
At times controversial...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 27, 2001
Air date of final episode:
- May 17, 2003
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 44
Smiley's People
Smiley's People is a spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1979. Featuring British master-spy George Smiley, it is the third and final novel of the "Karla Trilogy", following Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy. George...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 20, 1982
Air date of final episode:
- Oct 25, 1982
Threat Matrix
Threat Matrix is a 2003 American drama television series. It lasted 16 episodes. The plot consisted of the events in a United States Homeland Security anti-terrorism unit, led by Special agent John Kilmer.
The title of the show refers to a report...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 18, 2003
Air date of final episode:
- Jan 29, 2004
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Mighty Jack
Mighty Jack (マイティジャック, Maitei Jakku) is a tokusatsu SF/espionage/action TV series. Created by Japanese effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya, the show was produced by Tsuburaya Productions and was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 6, 1968 to June 29, 1968,...
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The Champions
The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 25, 1968
Air date of final episode:
- Apr 30, 1969
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 30
The CAT
T.H.E. Cat is an American action drama that aired during the 1966-1967 television season on NBC. The series was created by Harry Julian Fink.
The series starred Robert Loggia as cat burglar, Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat ("T.H.E. Cat"), a retired circus...
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 16, 1966
Air date of final episode:
- Mar 31, 1967
Original episode running time:
- 30 min (18 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 26
Jason King
Jason King was a British television series produced from 1971 to 1972. Each episode was one hour in duration (including commercial breaks), and the series had a run of one season of 26 episodes. As well as its native UK, the series was also screened...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 15, 1971
Air date of final episode:
- Apr 28, 1972
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy-fi TV series that aired on NBC for one season from September 16, 1966 to April 11, 1967. The series was a spin-off from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and used the same theme music except with a slightly...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 16, 1966
Air date of final episode:
- Apr 11, 1967
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 29
The Professionals
The Professionals is a British crime-action television drama series produced by Avengers Mk1 Productions and London Weekend Television that aired on the ITV network from 1977 to 1983. In all, 57 episodes were produced, filmed between 1977 and 1982....
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Air date of first episode:
- 1977
Air date of final episode:
- 1983
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 57
The Saint
The Saint is a long-running ITC mystery spy thriller, that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It centred on the Leslie Charteris literary character, Simon Templar, a Robin Hood-like adventurer with a penchant for disguise.
Due to the...
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Air date of first episode:
- Oct 4, 1962
Air date of final episode:
- Feb 9, 1969
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 6
It Takes a Thief
It Takes a Thief is an American action-adventure television series that aired on ABC for two and a half seasons between January 9, 1968, to March 24, 1970. It was among the last of the 1960s spy television genre, although Mission: Impossible...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Jan 9, 1968
Air date of final episode:
- Mar 24, 1970
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 3
Number of episodes:
- 66
A Perfect Spy
A Perfect Spy (1986) by John le Carré, is a novel about the mental and moral dissolution of a secret agent.
A Perfect Spy is the tale of Magnus Pym, a long-time spy for the United Kingdom. After attending his father's funeral, Pym mysteriously...
Callan
Callan was the title of a British television series, set in the murky world of espionage, that aired on ITV broadcasting over four seasons spread out between 1967 and 1972. The series starred British actor Edward Woodward as David Callan, a...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- 1967
Air date of final episode:
- 1972
Original episode running time:
- 50 min (30 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 44
The Equalizer
The Equalizer was an American urban vigilante television series initially broadcast on CBS between 1985 and 1989.
The series stars British actor Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a former secret agent of an unnamed organization, which was often...
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 1985
Air date of final episode:
- Aug 1989
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 4
Number of episodes:
- 88
Man in a Suitcase
Man in a Suitcase was a 1967 television series produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.
Man in a Suitcase was effectively a replacement for Danger Man, whose production had been curtailed when its star Patrick McGoohan had decided to create his...
Air date of first episode:
- 1967
Department S
Department S was a British spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series lasted for 28 episodes, which aired in 1969-70. The series starred Peter Wyngarde as Jason King (who later went on to star in his own, eponymous, spin-off...
Spy Game
Spy Game is a short-lived American action-adventure television series that aired on the ABC network for 13 episodes during the spring and summer of 1997. The series was created by screenwriter and physician Ivan Raimi, director Sam Raimi, and writer...
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Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Mar 3, 1997
Air date of final episode:
- Jul 12, 1997
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 13
E-Ring
E-Ring is a television military drama, created by Ken Robinson and David McKenna and executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, that premiered on NBC on September 21, 2005. The title of the show refers to the structure of The Pentagon, which is...
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 21, 2005
Air date of final episode:
- Feb 1, 2006
Original episode running time:
- 42 min (25 hs ) ,
- more…
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 22
She Spies
She Spies was an action-adventure television show that ran from September 9, 2002 until May 17, 2004, in two seasons. The show was sold into syndication but the first four episodes premiered on the NBC network, whose syndication arm was one of the...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 9, 2002
Air date of final episode:
- May 17, 2004
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs ) ,
- more…
Number of episodes:
- 40
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a short-lived American crime drama series that aired on CBS. Starring Scott Bakula and Maria Bello, the series aired from September 1996 to November 1996. Mr. & Mrs. Smith was set and filmed in Seattle, Washington.
Two spies ...
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 20, 1996
Air date of final episode:
- Nov 8, 1996
Number of seasons:
- 1
CI5: The New Professionals
CI5: The New Professionals is a British crime drama that aired on the Sky1 satellite channel from 19 September to 19 December 1999. An updating of the late 1970s television series The Professionals, the series is set in a fictional government agency...
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Air date of first episode:
- Sep 19, 1999
Air date of final episode:
- Dec 19, 1999
Original episode running time:
- 50 min (30 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 13
Special Branch
Special Branch is a British television series made by Thames Television for ITV and shown between 1969 and 1974. A police drama series, the action was centered on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and ant-terrorist department of the...
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter
The New Adventures of Beans Baxter was a half-hour-long television adventure/comedy (with an hour-long first episode); there were 17 episodes and they aired on the Fox television network between 1987 and 1988. It was created by Savage Steve Holland...
Air date of first episode:
- 1987
Under Cover
Under Cover was an American secret agent drama series that briefly aired on ABC in the spring of 1991. The series starred Anthony John Denison and Linda Purl as Dylan and Kate Del'Amico, a husband and wife who share the same day job—as spies for a...
Air date of first episode:
- Jan 7, 1991
Air date of final episode:
- Jul 20, 1991
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Masquerade
Masquerade is an American secret agent television series that aired for a few months on ABC in the spring of 1983.
Considered an amalgam of Mission: Impossible and The Love Boat, the tongue-in-cheek series starred Rod Taylor as Mr. Lavender, the...
Air date of first episode:
- Dec 15, 1983
Air date of final episode:
- Apr 27, 1984
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
A Man Called Sloane
A Man Called Sloane was an American secret agent adventure television series that aired on NBC during the 1979-1980 television season. It was a Woodruff Production in association with QM Productions, and became the final series produced by Quinn...
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 22, 1979
Air date of final episode:
- Dec 22, 1979
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 12
Espionage
Espionage is a 1963 Associated TeleVision (ATV) series, distributed outside the UK by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by NBC.
The series of 24 one-hour monchrome episodes had no regular cast, choosing instead to follow various ...
Air date of first episode:
- Oct 2, 1963
Air date of final episode:
- Mar 25, 1964
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 24
Reilly, Ace of Spies
Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries, written by Troy Kennedy Martin, and based on the 1967 book Ace of Spies by Robin Bruce Lockhart. Sam Neill stars as Sidney Reilly. The theme music is the Romance movement from Dmitri Shostakovich...
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La Femme Nikita
La Femme Nikita (or simply Nikita in some countries) is a Canadian television spy drama based on the original French film directed by Luc Besson, co-produced by Jay Firestone (Firestone Entertainment) and Warner Bros., and created for television by...
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Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- 1997
Air date of final episode:
- 2001
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 5
Number of episodes:
- 96
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man (on screen title H.G. Wells' Invisible Man) was a 1958 ITP (Incorporated Television Programme company Ltd) Production/Official Films presentation for Associated TeleVision. The series was networked on CBS in the United States. It...
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Air date of first episode:
- 1958
Air date of final episode:
- Jul 5, 1959
Original episode running time:
- 25 min (15 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 2
Number of episodes:
- 26
OSS
OSS was a Buckeye Productions and Associated TeleVision co-produced wartime television drama series.
It ran for 26 half-hour monochrome episodes during the 1957-1958 season and was distributed by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States...
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 14, 1957
Air date of final episode:
- Mar 9, 1958
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 26
The Unit
The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life Delta Force. The series originally aired on CBS from March 7, 2006, to May 10, 2009.
The program features both the domestic...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Mar 7, 2006
Air date of final episode:
- May 10, 2009
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 4
Number of episodes:
- 54
Cover Up
Cover Up is a CBS television series created by Glen A. Larson that ran from September 22, 1984 to April 6, 1985. The series lasted one season and starred Jennifer O'Neill, Jon-Erik Hexum, Antony Hamilton, and Richard Anderson.
Fashion photographer...
Original network:
Air date of first episode:
- Sep 22, 1984
Air date of final episode:
- Apr 6, 1985
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of episodes:
- 22
The Mask of Janus
The Mask of Janus is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1965.
The series was set in the fictional European country of Amalia and dealt with the political interests of the British, American and Communist espionage communities within....
The Spies
The Spies is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1966.
A spin-off or rebranding of the previous 1965 series The Mask of Janus, The Spies was a more conventional espionage thriller series than its predecessor, being more explicitly...
Codename
Codename was a short-lived British television series produced by the BBC in 1970.
An espionage thriller series, Codename was based around a secret organisation, MI17, being run from a residential hall at Cambridge University. The programme, lasting...
Air date of first episode:
- Apr 7, 1970
Air date of final episode:
- Jun 30, 1970
Original episode running time:
- 50 min (30 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 13
Chessgame
Chessgame is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1983.
Based on a series of novels by Anthony Price, the series dealt with the activities of a quartet of counter-intelligence agents: David Audley ...
Air date of first episode:
- Nov 23, 1983
Air date of final episode:
- Dec 28, 1983
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 6
Barbary Coast
Barbary Coast is a short-lived American television series that aired on ABC. The series began with a television movie that first aired on May 4, 1975. The series itself premiered September 8, 1975; the last episode aired January 9, 1976. Barbary...
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Air date of first episode:
- May 4, 1975
Air date of final episode:
- Jan 9, 1976
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 1
Counterstrike
Counterstrike is a Canadian/French crime-fighting/espionage television series. In the United States it aired on cable on the USA Network, premiering on July 1, 1990. It premiered on November 2, 1991 on CTV in Canada and on November 20, 1991 in...
Air date of first episode:
- 1990
Air date of final episode:
- May 9, 1993
Original episode running time:
- 60 min (36 hs )
Number of seasons:
- 3
Number of episodes:
- 66
The Grid
The Grid is a 2004 television miniseries co-produced by the BBC, Fox TV Studios and Carnival Films. It starred Dylan McDermott and Julianna Margulies. It aired on TNT in the US and on BBC Two in the UK over three consecutive nights and is available...
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Air date of first episode:
- Jul 19, 2004
Air date of final episode:
- Aug 9, 2004
Original episode running time:
- 44 min (26 hs ) ,
- more…
Number of seasons:
- 1
Number of episodes:
- 6
