My Spy Family

My Spy Family is a live action children's comedy series created by Paul Alexander that is currently being aired on Boomerang in the UK and on Cartoon Network in South Africa and Poland. All the music is written by Glenn Keiles excluding some songs heard in the "Intelligence Agency Cafe" these have been co-written with other song writers.

Plot Synopsis

The show is about the Bannon family, who all have strong spy links. The parents, Dirk and Talia, were once arch enemy spys, 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 Ordinance Officer (gadget-master).

Episodes list

Season 1

1. The Lock-In Affair
2. The Friends Disunited Affair
3. The Dirky Dancing Affair
4. The Charity Begins At Home Affair
5. The Bullets Over Batley Affair
6. The Prefect Storm Affair
7. The Tenth Flask Affair
8. The Truffles are Forever Affair
9. The Up Horoscope! Affair
10. The Inspector Foils Affair
11. The Vladimir Spensky Affair
12. The Spy Who Didn’t Quite Love Me Enough Affair
13. The Albovian Affair Affair

Season 2

1. The Love is the Drug Affair
2. The Des Res Affair
3. The Quiz Night Affair
4. The Batley’s Got Talent Affair
5. The Live and Let Dine Affair
6. The Talia’s Day Affair
7. The Persuasion Affair
8. The Knowledge is Power Affair
9. The Stroganoff Night Affair
10. The Laughing Lord Affair
11. The Mum's The Word Affair
12. The Who's the Daddy Affair
13. The Bum Deal Affair

Characters

Character	Played By
Dirk Bannon	Milo Twomey
Talia Bannon	Natasha Beaumont
Elle Bannon	Alice Connor
Spike Bannon	Joe Tracini
Boris Bannon	Ignat Pakhotin
Des	Vas Blackwood
Mr. Vong	Ramon Tikaram
Travis Mitchel	Richard Sargeant
Donna Jacobs	Cascade Brown
Marcy	Kirsty Leigh Porter

References to other culture

James Bond is heavily spoofed. Dirk Bannon is almost always seen wearing a dinner jacket of the type worn by the various James Bond actors. Gadgets of the sort that Q would issue are also used. Sometimes other spies are named, such as "Double-0-0", which uses the same naming convention used in James Bond, while individual episodes are titled using the same convention employed in 60's spy show 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E' - e.g. 'The Lock In Affair', 'The Dirky Dancing Affair', 'The Albovian Affair Affair' etc.

The theme music, which is very heavy on electric guitar, is reminiscent of many of the spy television series of the sixties and seventies .

External links

• Boomerang gets its own 'Spy' Family from digitalspy.co.uk
• Boomerang's My Spy Family web page
• Virtual 360 tour on the My Spy Family studio
• My Spy Family on Imdb.com