My Spy Family | |
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Genre | Action Family sitcom |
Created by | Paul Alexander |
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Composer | Glenn Keiles |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 46 |
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Production location | Batley |
Cinematography | Francis De Groote Dave Parker |
Editors | Mike Eccles James MacMillan |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 22 minutes approx. (per episode) |
Production companies | Kindle Entertainment Turner Broadcasting System Europe |
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Network | Boomerang |
Release | 1 September 2007 – 23 January 2010 |
My Spy Family is a British live-action family comedy series created by Paul Alexander. The series is a co-production between Kindle Entertainment and Turner Broadcasting System Europe, with Decode Enterprises handling distribution. [1] The series aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in the UK, TG4 in Ireland, Panda Biggs in Portugal, and Cartoon Network in France, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Poland, Romania, and South Africa. All the music is written by Glenn Keiles, excluding some songs heard in the "Intelligence Agency Cafe," which have been co-written with other songwriters.
When Master spy, Dirk Bannon, fell in love with his Russian arch rival, Natalia Knockemoff, things could only get complicated. Now they've been decommissioned, and are supposed to be living a normal life with their three children, Spike - the wannabee secret agent - Elle, happily retired - and a rather odd Boris. But can this family ever be normal? Not when you've got parents with a license to embarrass.
— Opening Narration
The show is about the Bannon family, who all have strong spy links. The parents, Dirk and Talia, were once arch enemies and enemy spies but fell in love and got married. They now have three children (Spike, Elle, and Boris), who have all been brought up with spy techniques as a matter of course. Spike's friend Travis (played by Richard Sargent) is commonly seen on the show.
The action is based in three major locations, the Bannon home, the children's school, and the local café, which is run by Des, Dirk's former personal ordnance officer (gadget master).
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
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1 | 1 | "The Lock-In Affair" | Tom Poole | Daniel Peak | 1 September 2007 |
2 | 2 | "The Friends Disunited Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Paul Alexander | 8 September 2007 |
3 | 3 | "The Dirky Dancing Affair" | Tom Poole | Paul Alexander | 15 September 2007 |
4 | 4 | "The Charity Begins at Home Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Paul Alexander | 22 September 2007 |
5 | 5 | "The Bullets Over Batley Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Mark Robertson | 29 September 2007 |
6 | 6 | "The Prefect Storm Affair" | Tom Poole | Paul Alexander | 6 October 2007 |
7 | 7 | "The Tenth Flask Affair" | Tom Poole | Daniel Peak | 13 October 2007 |
8 | 8 | "The Truffles Are Forever Affair" | Tom Poole | Brian Lynch | 20 October 2007 |
9 | 9 | "The 'Up Horoscope!' Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson | 27 October 2007 |
10 | 10 | "The Inspector Foils Affair" | Tom Poole | Julie Gearey | 4 November 2007 |
11 | 11 | "The Vladimir Spensky Affair" | Tom Poole | Daniel Peak | 10 November 2007 |
12 | 12 | "The Spy Who Didn't Quite Love Me Enough Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Mark Robertson | 17 November 2007 |
13 | 13 | "The Albovian Affair Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Paul Alexander | 24 November 2007 |
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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14 | 1 | "The Love Is the Drug Affair" | Angelo Abela | Joe Williams | 6 September 2008 | |
15 | 2 | "The Des Res Affair" | David Sant | Paul Alexander | 13 September 2008 | |
16 | 3 | "The Quiz Night Affair" | David Sant | Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson | 20 September 2008 | |
17 | 4 | "The Batley's Got Talent Affair" | Frank W. Smith | Paul Alexander | 27 September 2008 | |
18 | 5 | "The Live and Let Dine Affair" | Angelo Abela | Paul Alexander | 4 October 2008 | |
19 | 6 | "The Talia's Day Affair" | David Sant | Connal Orton | 11 October 2008 | |
20 | 7 | "The Persuasion Affair" | Frank W. Smith | Chris Reddy | 18 October 2008 | |
21 | 8 | "The Knowledge Is Power Affair" | David Sant | Gary Lawson and John Phelps | 25 October 2008 | |
22 | 9 | "The Stroganoff Night Affair" | Frank W. Smith | Trevelyan Evans | 1 November 2008 | |
23 | 10 | "The Laughing Lord Affair" | David Sant | Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson | 8 November 2008 | |
24 | 11 | "The Mum's the Word Affair" | Frank W. Smith | Paul Alexander | 15 November 2008 | |
25 | 12 | "The Who's the Daddy Affair" | Frank W. Smith | Paul Alexander | 22 November 2008 | |
There is a misunderstanding with Spike's birth certificate, which leads him to believe Mr. Vong is his real father. | ||||||
26 | 13 | "The Bum Deal Affair" | David Sant | Paul Alexander | 29 November 2008 |
No. overall | No. in series | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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27 | 1 | "The Back in Batley Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Paul Alexander | 5 September 2009 | |
After coming back from their summer holiday, the Bannons find that things have changed; Boris has become the new ruler of Russia, Travis has a new best friend who's a Battlestar Galactica fanatic, and Des has gone to Bermuda for a year, leaving Talia in charge of his cafe. | ||||||
28 | 2 | "The Des Mondi Code Affair" | Tom Poole | Paul Alexander | 12 September 2009 | |
29 | 3 | "The 1950s Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson | 19 September 2009 | |
30 | 4 | "The Cammy Loves Spikey Affair" | Tom Poole | Paul Alexander | 26 September 2009 | |
31 | 5 | "The Chat Show Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Daniel Peak | 3 October 2009 | |
32 | 6 | "The Back Scratch Affair" | Tom Poole | Trevelyan Evans and Paul Alexander | 10 October 2009 | |
33 | 7 | "The Spy Pod Affair" | Tom Poole | Paul Alexander and Clare Trenholm | 17 October 2009 | |
34 | 8 | "The Hoop Loop Snoop Affair" | Tom Poole | Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson | 24 October 2009 | |
35 | 9 | "The Black Widows Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Paul Alexander | 31 October 2009 | |
36 | 10 | "The Fakers & Adders Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Paul Alexander and Clare Trenholm | 7 November 2009 | |
37 | 11 | "The Trophy Affair" | David Sant | Mark Oswin and James Griffiths | 14 November 2009 | |
38 | 12 | "The Election Affair" | Angelo Abela | Gary Lawson and John Phelps | 21 November 2009 | |
39 | 13 | "The Schoolboy Spy Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson | 28 November 2009 | |
40 | 14 | "The Awful Aunty Affair" | Angelo Abela | Glen Dolman | 5 December 2009 | |
41 | 15 | "The Thick-Skinned Spike Affair" | Dominic MacDonald | Trevor Neal and Simon Hickson | 12 December 2009 | |
42 | 16 | "The Mothers in the Hood Affair" | Angelo Abela | Paul Alexander | 19 December 2009 | |
43 | 17 | "The Cheating Affair" | David Sant | Matthew Broughton | 2 January 2010 | |
44 | 18 | "The Boris Bounces Back Affair" | Angelo Abela | Paul Alexander | 9 January 2010 | |
45 | 19 | "The Pen Is Mightier Affair" | David Sant | Paul Alexander | 16 January 2010 | |
46 | 20 | "The Brought to Book Affair" | Angelo Abela | Paul Alexander | 23 January 2010 |
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