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Spy and Action Series

Self-destructing tapes, shoe phones, a ticking clock and sleeper agents next door: can you crack the case files of TV's great spy series?

📺 TV medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • In the original Mission: Impossible series, how did the team leader usually receive each new assignment?
  • Who composed the famous theme music of the 1966 Mission: Impossible series?
  • A bowler hat and a tightly furled umbrella were the trademarks of which gentleman agent of the 1960s?
  • In I Spy (1965), the two American agents travelled the world undercover as what?
  • The spoof spy sitcom Get Smart was created by Buck Henry and which comedy legend?
  • In Get Smart, Maxwell Smart's agency CONTROL battles which evil organisation?
  • James Bond's creator Ian Fleming contributed ideas to The Man from U.N.C.L.E., including the name Napoleon Solo.
  • In The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Napoleon Solo's partner Illya Kuryakin came from which country?
  • Select ALL the actors who were regular stars of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  • Which tool did MacGyver famously carry instead of a gun?
  • Did Peter Graves lead the team in every season of the original Mission: Impossible?
  • Each of the original eight seasons of 24 covers a single day, with every episode representing one hour.
  • Jack Bauer, the hero of 24, works for which fictional agency?
  • In what year did the first episode of 24 air on Fox?
  • Who created Alias, the series starring Jennifer Garner as the double agent Sydney Bristow?
  • The Americans follows two Soviet KGB officers posing as a married couple in the suburbs of which city?
  • Select ALL of these spy series that first aired in the 1960s.
  • Homeland (2011) was adapted from a television series made in which country?
  • Which actress played the CIA officer Carrie Mathison in Homeland?
  • Put these series in order of first broadcast, earliest first.