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''The Spies'' is a British
television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...
series produced by the
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in 1966. The main stars were
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and
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as counter espionage agents Richard Cadell and Anthony Kelly, together with
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as Russian agent Copic. A spin-off or rebranding of the previous 1965 series ''
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'', ''The Spies'' was a more conventional
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thriller series than its predecessor, being more explicitly concerned with the actual operations of British secret service agents stationed in the fictional
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an country Amalia. The series can be viewed as being a BBC attempt to match the popularity of the ITV action show ''
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''. Most of this show was
wiped Lost television broadcasts are mostly those early television programs which cannot be accounted for in studio archives (or in personal archives) usually because of deliberate destruction or neglect. Common reasons for loss A significant prop ...
(probably in the 1970s) by the
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; only one episode is known to exist according to www.lostshows.com.


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* BBC television dramas Espionage television series Lost BBC episodes 1960s British drama television series 1966 British television series debuts 1966 British television series endings Black-and-white British television shows English-language television shows {{BBC-tv-prog-stub