"Secret Agent Man" (2000) TV series

Creators:

Barry Josephson
Richard Regen
Barry Sonnenfeld

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

7 March 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Aviation | Stunt | Beautiful Woman | Martial Arts | Instructor

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 4 of 11)

Costas Mandylor	...	Monk (9 episodes, 2000)
Dondre Whitfield	...	Davis (9 episodes, 2000)
Dina Meyer	...	Holiday (9 episodes, 2000)
Paul Guilfoyle	...	Roan Brubeck (9 episodes, 2000)

Runtime:

Japan:86 min | USA:60 min (12 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Columbia TriStar Television

Trivia:

The recurring characters are named after jazz musicians (Thelonious Monk, Billie Holliday, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck).

Quotes:

Brubeck: Tell the President the market will be up today.

Pretty darn good show

"Secret Agent Man" - think Get Smart with 90s sensibilities. The formula is the same - every week some evil organization threatens the world - and our two agents "Monk" (Costas Mandaylor) and "Holliday" (Dina Meyer) are off to save the day - with the help of a completely-hip and smarter-than-both-the-agents black "Q" named "Davis" (Dondre Whitfield).

Keeping the "Get Smart" analogy going, "The Chief" is named "Brubeck" (Paul Guilfoyle)

The differences with "Get Smart" - Monk's "weakness" isn't being a clod it's women. Holliday is pretty much like "Agent 99" - she's fashionable, buttoned-down, business-woman type that plays a very-rye straight-man for much of the show's humor (as well as being just amazing to look at). Unlike "The Chief" - "Brubeck" is an upper-crust, tea-drinking, breaucrat-on-steroids, with absolute dictitorial powers over the lives of our heros and a large lazy streak who always has complete confidence in the eventual success of his agents.

"Davis" is the somewhat snotty "who you gonna call?" keeper of the cool gadgets - the ones the agents always loose, break and destroy - and he gets in trouble for it (and often takes it out on the agents).

The action is good, the humor is smart (if somewhat predictable) - the editing is very sexy. However! The best part of every episode is the bevy of amazing-looking and very fashionably-(un)dressed women guest stars (think Paris-runway super models)

Lately, the frequent guest evil-doer is the former agent "Prima" (Musatta Vander).

All and all 7 of 10 - a good 60 minutes of mind-numbing sexy time wasting for when you're not doing anything important.