"Secret Agent Man" (2000) TV series

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Creators:

Barry Josephson
Richard Regen
Barry Sonnenfeld

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

7 March 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Aviation | Stunt | Beautiful Woman | Martial Arts | Instructor

Cast

Costas Mandylor	...	Monk (9 episodes, 2000)
Dondre Whitfield	...	Davis (9 episodes, 2000)
Dina Meyer	...	Holiday (9 episodes, 2000)
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Roan Brubeck (9 episodes, 2000)

Runtime:

Japan:86 min | USA:60 min (12 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Columbia TriStar Television

Trivia:

The agency was originally called POISE.

Quotes:

Brubeck: Tell the President the market will be up today.

Pretty darn good show

"Secret Agent Man" - think Get Smart with 90s sensibilities. The formula is the same - every week some evil organization threatens the world - and our two agents "Monk" (Costas Mandaylor) and "Holliday" (Dina Meyer) are off to save the day - with the help of a completely-hip and smarter-than-both-the-agents black "Q" named "Davis" (Dondre Whitfield).

Keeping the "Get Smart" analogy going, "The Chief" is named "Brubeck" (Paul Guilfoyle)

The differences with "Get Smart" - Monk's "weakness" isn't being a clod it's women. Holliday is pretty much like "Agent 99" - she's fashionable, buttoned-down, business-woman type that plays a very-rye straight-man for much of the show's humor (as well as being just amazing to look at). Unlike "The Chief" - "Brubeck" is an upper-crust, tea-drinking, breaucrat-on-steroids, with absolute dictitorial powers over the lives of our heros and a large lazy streak who always has complete confidence in the eventual success of his agents.

"Davis" is the somewhat snotty "who you gonna call?" keeper of the cool gadgets - the ones the agents always loose, break and destroy - and he gets in trouble for it (and often takes it out on the agents).

The action is good, the humor is smart (if somewhat predictable) - the editing is very sexy. However! The best part of every episode is the bevy of amazing-looking and very fashionably-(un)dressed women guest stars (think Paris-runway super models)

Lately, the frequent guest evil-doer is the former agent "Prima" (Musatta Vander).

All and all 7 of 10 - a good 60 minutes of mind-numbing sexy time wasting for when you're not doing anything important.