Spooks, from the start

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Noticed that Drama (freeview 20) are showing Spooks from the first episode, Saturday 9pm.

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I can't remember each individual series, just various bits and the memory of it all being enjoyable. I've got it all on DVD but for some reason never get around to watching it. Maybe if I fill my HDD recorder with the re-showing, I'll see it all again.

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EdJ said:

Europa1 said:

Was that the episode with the deep fat fryer? That was "gritty TV", to say the least.

God that was awful. First her hand and then her head wasn't it? Urgh.

I think one of the things that made me like the show was the short piece, after her service, where the smug bloke who'd dunked her in the fryer and got away with it was bumped off.

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Trevatanus said:

That was a theme that ran through all the series. I am sure I recall other episodes where justice was handed out "unofficially"

Yes, in fact right up to the last few minutes of the final episode.

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Your TV guide is correct - sorry, looks as if this actually started on January 23rd and yesterday was, in fact, Ep3. I must have been half-watching the advert, but mentioned it to a mate in the pub last night and he thought it was starting yesterday. Clear from the start, though, that the deep fat fryer incident had been and gone.

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And again by the look of it - 23.10 tonight on Drama (ch 20), first and second episodes.

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I have a lot of trouble remembering individual episodes. The ones that stick in my mind are largely the "changeover" ones, where someone new arrives or someone leaves one way or another. But I did really enjoy the re-run, and hope that maybe this re-re-run is a precursor to them continuing from the start of series four.

I got the film on DVD recently, it's not a bad film but I prefer the one-hour format from the original series.

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This is running again on Drama, though I can't tell which series it's on (ETA - start of series 3, according to IMDB) - last night saw the introduction of Adam Carter, and I can't remember if the last re-showing got that far. Later at night, though, starts after "New Tricks".

Last night I noticed how often Tim McInnerny seems to be cast as a Whitehall chap - NT from last week had him as one, and Spooks las night had him as a very similar head of the Joint Intelligence Committee.

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I'm still keeping up with it, though there have been one or two episodes recently that I just don't remember from the first time around.