fabulouswxbabe Smart writing and great acting made this series (part of the CBS late night line up) a stand out.Part action/adventure, part comedy, part budding romance, Adderly turned the spy drama on its head by putting the characters in some interesting situations.Undercover operative V.H. Adderly is injured/disabled while on a special mission and is reassigned to ISI's office of Miscellaneous Affairs. He hungers to get back in the spy game, but the low level nature of Miscellaneous Affairs means that he is reduced to mundane and ordinary assignments instead of his previous exciting life.Winston Rekert pours on the charm as the secret agent looking to jump back in the mix. Jonathan Welsh provides some comic relief as Adderly's tightly wrapped boss, Melville Greenspan. Veteran character actor Ken Pogue plays Maj. Clack (the head of ISI) with his usual tough guy swagger. And Dixie Seatle shines as Mona, the partner in crime/apprentice spy/secretary who assists Adderly in assignments that go from dull to dramatic in less than 60 minutes.What they didn't have in big budgets or spectacular special effects, they more than made up for in clever plots, strong character development and as stated before, some really inventive writing and storytelling (many episodes written by novelist Elliot Baker).I used to work late nights at a CBS affiliate during the run of this show, and enjoyed every episode of this smart, funny, engaging and entertaining program.

skiddoo I have most of the episodes on tape and have almost worn them out rewatching them. This is so funny, so good, so sweet. It perks me up all over to watch it. The DVD is ruinously expensive but still...I might get it some day.The theme song is perfect. The relationships are wonderful. The episode where hen-pecked Melville (Debbie beat him down and he beat Adderly and Mona down) got involved with a beautiful female spy behind the Iron Curtain was choice. The one where Adderly went home to see his parents, just terrific. And Mona! Mona who would have loved to be an agent if life hadn't led another way, and enjoyed her spy novels but was nobody's idea of a femme fatale. Melville and Mona both wished they could be like Adderly, but Mona got to help him while Melville for most of the series was just an obstructive force. And Maj. Clack who seemed to secretly want to get Adderly back into full service if he could earn it by showing the hand didn't matter and he wanted it enough.And the quips! One I remember was when Adderly was playing catch in the windowless basement office and held up his smashed gloved hand and his ball mitt on the other hand, clapped them together and said, "Flippers!" As the other reviewer said, much of this is an office comedy. Some of it is about overcoming handicaps of all sorts, whether Adderly's hand or Melville's cowardice. And part of it is about making at least a few of your dreams come true as all three of our office dungeon-mates have a chance to run with the big dogs, and do amazingly well.I dropped it down to 9 instead of a 10 because sometimes Mona's speech pattern when she is "thinking on her feet" in difficult situations gets on my nerves. And of course the whole Iron Curtain thing is now over. But it's fun to see international espionage from the Canadian point of view and having Canadians save the world instead of Americans.

Christopher Signet I used to love this show. It was one of a group of shows that were being produced in Ontario.The lead character of V.H. Adderly was a former field agent for an intelligence agency. The opening credits show how he got set-up and captured by the bad guys, who maim one of his hands. Unable to continue in the field he gets reassigned to a desk in a department that handles such important matters as escorting "chipmunk scouts" on field trips.Naturally Adderly sought every opportunity to prove he was still one of the best, even if he had to "loosely interpret" his orders. Ably assisted by Mona, the office secretary who dreams of being a female James Bond, and hampered by their bean counting rule following supervisor, the team never failed to provide a fun entertaining episode.If they'd release the series on DVD I'd be in line when the store opened.

robertcarolina This was a wonderful show that demonstrates it's possible to make good television entertainment on a budget. Using a handicapped super-spy as an excuse to parody the inane workings of every day office life was inspired. Anyone who has ever been stuck in a job for which they are obviously over-qualified will immediately sympathise with Adderly, and with those who are supposed to supervise him.I first saw the programme on US late-night television (CBS?) in the 1980's, and I've never seen it again. No big special effects, no amazing stunts, no cast of thousands. Just a wonderful little show with humour and pathos.Isn't there somewhere in our 3000 channel universe where this could be re-run?