My Spy Family

''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. The series aired on: Cartoon Network and Boomerang in 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", these have been co-written with other songwriters.

Plot synopsis

The show is about the Bannon family, who all have strong spy links. The parents, Dirk and Talia, were once arch 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).

Characters

Main characters

* Dirk Bannon (portrayed by Milo Twomey) - Dirk is a British former spy. He is married to his former arch rival, Talia, who also happened to be a spy. Dirk is usually a pushover to his wife. Together, they have three children: Spike, Elle, and Boris. He is best friends with Des, his former Personal Ordnance Officer (gadget-master). He is rarely seen wearing something other than a tuxedo.
* Talia Bannon (portrayed by Natasha Beaumont) - The Russian arch rival of Dirk, but later fell in love and married him, before retiring. As seen in few episodes, she has better fighting techniques, as well as better spying techniques than her husband. She also tends to add the suffix "''-sky''" to words she says, such as referring to herself as "Mumsky." She also is a master of disguise. In "The Back in Batley Affair" she introduces herself as Natalia Alexandrina Vladimir Knockemoff-Bannon, after being put in charge of the Intelligence Agency Cafe, after Des, the owner, is written out of series 3.
* Spike Bannon (portrayed by Joe Tracini) - The eldest offspring of Dirk and Talia. Spike is an expert in creating various spy gadgets. Many times, it is shown that he, along with his best friend, Travis, try to sabotage any plans or simply to make fool of his geography teacher, Mr. Vong, with whom he does not get along well, due to the schemes of the Spike.
* Elle Bannon (portrayed by Alice Connor) - Like her mother, she also has very good combat skills and spy techniques. She is often seen hanging out with her friends Donna and Marcy in the school, and is often at odds with her brother Spike. Talia says there is a 7% chance that she is heir to the throne of Russia.
* Boris Bannon (portrayed by Ignat Pakhotin) - The youngest offspring of Dirk and Talia. He is an expert in setting booby traps and hiding. Though he is a member of the family, he is treated as the most unnoticeable character in the show. He is not often shown and rarely speaks, but when he does it is in Russian, which no one seems to understand except Talia. He is written out of series 3 in the opener, "The Back in Batley Affair", which describes him to be ruling Russia as he looks like the former ruler, which makes Talia proud. However, he eventually returns in "The Boris Bounces Back Affair".

Recurring characters

* Des (portrayed by Vas Blackwood) - Des was Dirk's former Personal Ordnance Officer (gadget-master). He has since retired and opened the local Intelligence Agency Cafe, though his kitchen has many various types of gadgets which come useful during spy missions. He is best friends with Dirk, though sometimes that is not the case in few episodes. He has also shown interest in Talia. Like Boris, he is also written out of season 3, who has gone to Bermuda for a year after he is elected honorary president of the World Shark Surfing Federation, putting Talia in charge.
In Love is Drug Air Date Dirk and Des went inside the house to try a big surprise on Talia but instead to their shock it was a dummy pretended to be Talia before he was knocked out by the real Talia on the ground then they carried Des back to his cafe bickering one and the other and argument on each other before Des yelled. “Will you two stop spitting on me man!” Then he walk to the counter. After the argument was over Des was pouring some puncha juice of Valentine's Day and he caught a sight of love potion that Dirk has stolen from his workshop which Dirk asked he preferred to burrow. He told this love potion cause any affect who ever drinks the love potion it will make a fall to the person he seen, after Dirk told when Talia will drink the potion and sees him and he will go from the doghouse to a love shack. Then he went of leaving the confused and disbelief Des on the counter. But unfortunately when she sit down to Spike and told comes a plan to make his father jealous by pretending she was madly in love with Des- not before Dirk came with Puncha juices and drink has love potion on it. She looked at umbrella and spit in disgust then Dirk came an idea and said a small rubber dog on skates on which they turn around to see where he mentioned. Dirk quickly swapped the cups which accidentally replace love potion to Spike and with a puncha instead. As He lift the glass on his mouth ready to drink she gives a node before drink it up after a while she finished and let an exhale. Her express suddenly turned into somewhat a seduce dangerous look on her eyes then Dirk knew his plan was working, but she wasn't not look on her husband she was aim on Des- then she stand up and stroll towards Des at the counter with a confused express on his face. But before he felt her hands grabbed on two straps officer armour forcefully. And before he could speak what's going on he was pulled by rough kiss him fully on the mouth by Talia who was instantly startled reaction as Dirk watched on shock and heartbroken his plan was failed as Talia beginning kiss Des. He was seen at cafe when Dirk read the label on love potion said the love potion can make of hate potions and Talia make blow a kiss and Des watched her with love and she waving at him. Then Des saves Dirk by spraying her who was disguise of Scottish man when Dirk kiss a mystery woman and the last scene he was kissed by Talia again and Dirk begin to pour love potion on the cup before he tapped her on the shoulder to get her attention after she broke Des the liplock she pretended to pour it down after trick two of them a puppy dog on roller skates. Then as Dirk and Talia reconcile one and the other and kissed the people ended throw pies and things and Des tries to stop but he was overpowered and lay on the ground. Spike called loudly. “Dad Mum please stop doing that!” Then he went outside leaving Dirk and Talia making out lovingly.

* Travis Mitchell (portrayed by Richard Sargent) - Travis is the best friend of Spike. He is very loyal to Spike and is always willing to help him. The actor who plays the character is a wheelchair user, but the show purposely does not mention his disability in the show. Instead they make fun of him because of his glasses.
* Mr. Ernest Vong (portrayed by Ramon Tikaram) - School's geography teacher who seems to have the most authority. Spike sees Vong as an adversary, who schemes and pranks against him to get what he wants (which always fail), making Wong greatly dislike Spike, although he has no ill feelings to the rest of his family. It is hinted that he is Indian, as there is a map of India in his classroom. In the episode "The Mum's The Word Affair", it is revealed that he lives with his mother, who in turn revealed his first name.
* Donna Jacobs (portrayed by Cascade Brown) - Donna is a close friend of Elle and is mostly seen hanging out with her and Marcy. Donna is obsessed with fashion, boyfriends and wishes to be a model. Talia often comments that she will be unable to be a model nor have boyfriends due to her ankles.
* Marcy Desmond (portrayed by Kirsty Leigh Porter) - Marcy is a shy friend of Elle and is mostly seen hanging out with Elle and Donna. Most of the times it is observed that she is the exact opposite of Donna since she has no fashion sense nor has any boyfriend.
* Mike Quiller (portrayed by Dan Li) - A former MI5 office boy, who Talia hires to help out after Des has left and gone to Bermuda for a year to be honorary president of the World Shark Surfing Federation. Mike is a big fan of Dirk.

Episodes

Season 1 (2007)

Season 2 (2008)

Season 3 (2009–10)

Cast

References

External links

Virtual 360 tour of the ''My Spy Family'' studio
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Kindle Entertainment

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Boomerang (TV network) original programming
Cartoon Network original programming
British children's comedy television series
2007 British television series debuts
2010 British television series endings
2000s British comedy television series
2010s British comedy television series
Television series by Kindle Entertainment
English-language television shows
Television shows set in West Yorkshire
2000s British children's television series
2010s British children's television series