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‘Secret Agent’: England’s Danger Man thrills viewers the world over

Please. If the question is: “What’s the best TV spy series ever produced?” I don’t want to hear something like Mission: Impossible or The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (even though I love those two), and I certainly don’t want pallid, morally-equivalent, p.c.-obsessed examples from the last 20 years or so (you can keep your limp hand-wringing lectures to yourself, thank you).

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‘Lace’ (1984): Everything that was wrong with 80s television—and oh so right

“Incidentally…which one of you bitches is my mother?”

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