My Spy Family
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My Spy Family is a Live action comedy series created by Paul Alexander that is currently being aired on the Boomerang in the UK and on Cartoon Network in South Africa. All the music is written by Glenn Keiles excluding some songs heard in the "Intelligence Agency Cafe" these have been co-written with other song writers.
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[edit] Plot Synopsis
The show is about the Bannon family, who all have strong spy links. The parents, Dirk and Talia, were once arch enemy spys, but fell in love and got married. They now have three children, who have all been brought up with spy techniques as a matter of course.
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 Ordinance Officer (gadget-master).
[edit] Episodes list
[edit] Season 1
- The Lock-In Affair
- The Friends Disunited Affair
- The Dirky Dancing Affair
- The Charity Begins At Home Affair
- The Bullets Over Batley Affair
- The Prefect Storm Affair
- The Tenth Flask Affair
- The Truffles are Forever Affair
- The Up Horoscope! Affair
- The Inspector Foils Affair
- The Vladimir Spensky Affair
- The Spy Who Didn’t Quite Love Me Enough Affair
- The Albovian Affair Affair
[edit] Season 2
- The Love is the Drug Affair
- The Des Res Affair
- The Quiz Night Affair
- The Batley’s Got Talent Affair
- The Live and Let Dine Affair
- The Talia’s Day Affair
- The Persuasion Affair
- The Knowledge is Power Affair
- The Stroganoff Night Affair
- The Laughing Lord Affair
- The Mum's The Word Affair
- The Who's the Daddy Affair
[edit] Characters
Character | Played By |
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Dirk Bannon | Milo Twomey |
Talia Bannon | Natasha Beaumont |
Elle Bannon | Alice Connor |
Spike Bannon | Joe Tracini |
Boris Bannon | Ignat Pakhotin |
Des | Vas Blackwood |
Mr. Vong | Ramon Tikaram |
Travis Mitchel | Richard Sargent |
Donna | Cascade Brown |
Marcy | Kirsty Leigh Porter |
[edit] References to other culture
James Bond is heavily spoofed. Dirk Bannon is almost always seen wearing a dinner jacket of the type worn by the various James Bond actors. Gadgets of the sort that Q would issue are also used. Sometimes other spies are named, such as "Double-0-0", which uses the same naming convention used in James Bond, while individual episodes are titled using the same convention employed in 60's spy show 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E' - e.g 'The Lock In Affair', 'The Dirky Dancing Affair', 'The Albovian Affair Affair' etc.
The theme music, which is very heavy on electric guitar, is reminiscent of many of the spy television series of the sixties and seventies[citation needed].