Alias 

Sydney Bristow is an international spy recruited out of college, trained for espionage and self-defense.

Creator:

J.J. Abrams

Stars:

Jennifer Garner, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly

Won 1 Golden Globe. Another 31 wins & 143 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Jennifer Garner	...	Sydney Bristow / ... 105 episodes, 2001-2006
Ron Rifkin	...	Arvin Sloane 105 episodes, 2001-2006
Carl Lumbly	...	Marcus Dixon 105 episodes, 2001-2006
Kevin Weisman	...	Marshall Flinkman 105 episodes, 2001-2006
Victor Garber	...	Jack Bristow 105 episodes, 2001-2006
Michael Vartan	...	Michael Vaughn 96 episodes, 2001-2006
Greg Grunberg	...	Eric Weiss 68 episodes, 2001-2006
David Anders	...	Julian Sark 56 episodes, 2002-2006
Merrin Dungey	...	Francie Calfo / ... 48 episodes, 2001-2006
Bradley Cooper	...	Will Tippin 47 episodes, 2001-2006

Storyline

Sydney Bristow is a young, athletic, college graduate who was recruited her freshman year as a secret agent for SD-6, a top-secret branch of the CIA. After a few years -- after Sydney confides her lifestyle to her boyfriend, the evil head of SD-6 -- Arvin Sloan, has him killed. Sydney learns that SD-6 is part of a rogue international agency called the Alliance of 12, out to rule the world. She becomes a double agent, working with the real CIA to bring down SD-6 with the assistance of her handler, Michael Vaughn, and her estranged father Jack Bristow -- also a double agent. Along the way, Sydney fights various rival agents, rival terrorist groups, and traitors all the while keeping her cloak-and-dagger lifestyle a secret from her friends. (Season 1)

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Plot Keywords:

cia | double agent | terrorist | college | terrorist group | 

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Taglines:

I can be anyone I want to be.

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Bulgarian Arabic Cantonese French German Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Portuguese Romanian Russian Spanish Thai Ukrainian Uzbek Dutch

Release Date:

30 September 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Vingadora

Filming Locations:

U.S. Bank Tower - 633 W. Fifth Street, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Touchstone Television,Bad Robot

Technical Specs

Runtime:

42 min (105 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

For her birthday, Jennifer Garner was given a pink bicycle by J.J. Abrams. Being the first one on-set, she would often greet the production crew by ringing the bells on the bike's handlebars.

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Goofs

Characters often pronounce the first name of Milo Rambaldi as MY-lo. If he was a medieval Italian, it would probably be pronounced MEE-lo.

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Quotes

Marcus Dixon: We kill ourselves to do the right thing, meanwhile the bad people keep coming back.

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Crazy Credits

The first few episodes of the first season do not have the "My name is Sydney Bristow..." introductory monologue; neither does the later season 1 episode "Q & A." By midway through the second season, the opening narration (which by that point was no longer recited by 'Jennifer Garner') was replaced altogether with a recap of previous episodes.

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Connections

Referenced in Heroes Unmasked: Voices (2007)

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Soundtracks

Alias Theme
(uncredited)
Written by J.J. Abrams
Performed by Michael Giacchino

User Reviews

One of the worst espionage TV series

Just imagine this: One not-so-bad-looking girl wearing bikini runs around kick heavily armed bad guys' asses. Remember Charlie's Angels? Alias is almost or equally ridiculous as that!! How the hell a long blond haired girl ever is able to kill or knock off guys that are 3 times as big as her, and how the hell can she be a spy when she's so freaking unbelievably emotional. She's always crying, or yelling when something's up. Note to bad guys, you gotta remember to grab her hair! MY GOD!!! This… TV series should be freaking more convincing. There is just too much impossibility in the series. Compare to 24, Alias is garbage.

Please don't waste your time on this junk. 3/10