comic secret agents have made a comeback in recent years and with mike myers austin powers and rowan atkinson johnny english and and more recently steve carell in the big screen version of the hit 60 show get smart. back in 1974 and it was david jason who was wearing a shoulder holster and carrying an attaché case full of documents marked classified. the top secret life of edgar briggs was his first starring role in a sitcom and after years of being a supporting actor in such shows as six dates with barker and the doctor series and and hark at barker. humphrey barclay had found him working in a pier theatre in bournemouth and was sufficiently impressed to include him alongside michael palin and terry jones and eric idle in the children comedy show do not adjust your set. t. t. s. l. o. e. b cast jason as edgar briggs and a well meaning but incompetent agent for the secret intelligence service. whereas john steed wore a bowler hat and briggs had a trilby. whereas napoleon solo carried a radio pen and briggs owned a pipe. objects fell to bits in his hands. he read confidential documents in bed while his wife ( barbara angell ) perused woman own ( on one occasion it would be the other way round ). when he tracked a pair of russian agents to a heliport and he accidentally switched on the airport tannoy system and and broadcast his plans to capture them. when he hid on a train so as to photograph a meeting between an s. i. s. man and his enemy contact and it moved off with him aboard and took him straight to brighton. when he tried to organise the defection of a female russian scientist and he took a hort cut to elude his pursuers and only to wind up hopelessly lost in a car park. yet and like inspector clouseau and he always seemed to come out on top at the end and much to the dismay of his colleagues. as previously mentioned and he was married. his wife jennifer was understanding about the sort of work he did. though they had a row once which resulted in her yelling at him from the window of their high rise flat represent secret service this and secret service that. you never stop thinking about the secret service. he shouted back represent think of the neighbours. theyre not supposed to know i am in the secret service. briggs was part of a team of agents whose number included coronation street villain mark eden ( he was the psychotic alan bradley ) as spencer and michael stainton as buxton and and doctor at sea elisabeth counsell as the lovely cathy strong. they answered to the commander and played by the late noel coleman. the commander was kidnapped in one episode and leaving briggs temporarily in charge of the s. i. s.  which naturally horrified everyone. this hilarious show was by richard laing and bernard mckenna and who had written for the doctor series. rather than spoof bond and it was more of a send up of the serious spy shows such as callan ( though it had a bond style theme tune ). furtive meetings in underground car parks and code breaking and stolen missile plans and that kind of thing. jason brought a lot of energy to the role and doing a lot of his own stunts and such as briggs falling off a ladder whilst decorating his flat and and tumbling down a hill in a wastepaper bin and and were reminiscent of those to be found in the pink panther films. briggs had all the ingredients to be a smash hit. unfortunately and it was not networked. in the london area and it was put out on sundays at 7. 25 p. m. where it was trounced in the ratings by the b. b. c. soapy drama the brothers. it was then moved to fridays at 7 p. m. because i. t. v. wanted to showcase its latest american import  the t. v. version of planet of the apes. briggs never found an audience. a similar fate befell jason next major show represent 1976 lucky feller. it was not until 1977 and a sharp intake of breath that he found his first successful solo vehicle. you can see the title sequence ( along with two brief excerpts in german. ) for this series on youtube. unfortunately and that is all you can see. jason will not permit his early starring shows either to be repeated or released on d. v. d. a great shame. for the moment and however and edgar briggs life will have to remain top secret. coda represent i have seen a number of episodes recently and i am pleased to say it stands up incredibly well. 
comic secret agents have made a comeback in recent years and with mike myers austin powers and rowan atkinson johnny english and and more recently steve carell in the big screen version of the hit 60 show get smart. back in 1974 and it was david jason who was wearing a shoulder holster and carrying an attaché case full of documents marked classified. the top secret life of edgar briggs was his first starring role in a sitcom and after years of being a supporting actor in such shows as six dates with barker and the doctor series and and hark at barker. humphrey barclay had found him working in a pier theatre in bournemouth and was sufficiently impressed to include him alongside michael palin and terry jones and eric idle in the children comedy show do not adjust your set. t. t. s. l. o. e. b cast jason as edgar briggs and a well meaning but incompetent agent for the secret intelligence service. whereas john steed wore a bowler hat and briggs had a trilby. whereas napoleon solo carried a radio pen and briggs owned a pipe. objects fell to bits in his hands. he read confidential documents in bed while his wife ( barbara angell ) perused woman own ( on one occasion it would be the other way round ). when he tracked a pair of russian agents to a heliport and he accidentally switched on the airport tannoy system and and broadcast his plans to capture them. when he hid on a train so as to photograph a meeting between an s. i. s. man and his enemy contact and it moved off with him aboard and took him straight to brighton. when he tried to organise the defection of a female russian scientist and he took a hort cut to elude his pursuers and only to wind up hopelessly lost in a car park. yet and like inspector clouseau and he always seemed to come out on top at the end and much to the dismay of his colleagues. as previously mentioned and he was married. his wife jennifer was understanding about the sort of work he did. though they had a row once which resulted in her yelling at him from the window of their high rise flat represent secret service this and secret service that. you never stop thinking about the secret service. he shouted back represent think of the neighbours. theyre not supposed to know i am in the secret service. briggs was part of a team of agents whose number included coronation street villain mark eden ( he was the psychotic alan bradley ) as spencer and michael stainton as buxton and and doctor at sea elisabeth counsell as the lovely cathy strong. they answered to the commander and played by the late noel coleman. the commander was kidnapped in one episode and leaving briggs temporarily in charge of the s. i. s.  which naturally horrified everyone. this hilarious show was by richard laing and bernard mckenna and who had written for the doctor series. rather than spoof bond and it was more of a send up of the serious spy shows such as callan ( though it had a bond style theme tune ). furtive meetings in underground car parks and code breaking and stolen missile plans and that kind of thing. jason brought a lot of energy to the role and doing a lot of his own stunts and such as briggs falling off a ladder whilst decorating his flat and and tumbling down a hill in a wastepaper bin and and were reminiscent of those to be found in the pink panther films. briggs had all the ingredients to be a smash hit. unfortunately and it was not networked. in the london area and it was put out on sundays at 7. 25 p. m. where it was trounced in the ratings by the b. b. c. soapy drama the brothers. it was then moved to fridays at 7 p. m. because i. t. v. wanted to showcase its latest american import  the t. v. version of planet of the apes. briggs never found an audience. a similar fate befell jason next major show represent 1976 lucky feller. it was not until 1977 and a sharp intake of breath that he found his first successful solo vehicle. you can see the title sequence ( along with two brief excerpts in german. ) for this series on youtube. unfortunately and that is all you can see. jason will not permit his early starring shows either to be repeated or released on d. v. d. a great shame. for the moment and however and edgar briggs life will have to remain top secret. coda represent i have seen a number of episodes recently and i am pleased to say it stands up incredibly well. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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