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THE TOP SECRET LIFE OF EDGAR BRIGGS

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Full Name: Edgar Briggs
Nationality: British
Organization: British Intelligence
Occupation Agent

Creator: Bernard McKenna, Richard Laing
Time Span: 1974 - 1974

ABOUT THE SERIES

Edgar Briggs is an agent with MI6.

Sometimes that is how he would like himself to be considered and at other times he enjoys the fact that he is "the personal assistant to the Commander of the British Secret Intelligence Service". Both are true with the former having been the case for some time before achieving the latter.

To everyone else in MI6, including the mentioned Commander, Briggs is, well, he is Briggs. Seldom can a person be summed up as succinctly as he can be just by uttering his name. Briggs can be to anyone who has had the "experience" of dealing with him. This is summed up by a paraphrasing of a normal exchange between two fellow agents: "Have you ever dealt with Briggs?" "No." "Ah, right. There you are then!"

It would be not only safe but almost mandatory to describe Briggs as "inept". Many pictures taken of him show him holding in his right hand a pistol and if you have spent anytime with him at all, that is enough to give most people pause and smart people the urge to duck.

Does Briggs know he is as out-of-his-depth as everyone else knows? Probably not but at times he does show a glimmer or two, enough to show concern on his face, but he blithely moves past it.

The question that I ask myself over and over while watching the recorded adventures of this operative is whether his adoring wife, Jennifer, really know it. That she loves him is without question. She is a wonderful combination of very sharp insightfulness and bliss ignorance, depending on the circumstance.

In answer to the question of how someone as unqualified as Briggs would get to such an important position as personal assistant, able to give orders and issue instructions all with no apparent understanding of any situation, two words speak volumes. "Clerical Error".

TELEVISION


Number of Episodes:13
First Appearance:1974
Last Appearance:1974
Network:ITV

REGULAR CAST
David JasonEdgar Briggs [ 1 ]
Barbara AngellJennifer Briggs [ 1 ]
Elizabeth CounsellCathy [ 1 ]
Noel ColemanThe Commander [ 1 ]
Gary WaldhornGrenville [ 1 ]
Mark EdenSpencer [ 1 ]
Michael StaintonBuxton [ 1 ]

     This 30-minute comedy spy series was aired on Sunday evenings at 7:25 pm until the last episode which ran at 7:00 pm.

MY COMMENTS

     When I went online to watch episodes of this short-lived series, I found that a) I enjoyed them more than I should admit to, and b) I could take them only one episode every now and then. I worried what too much Edgar Briggs would do to my already failing mind.

     More accurately, I feared that watching too much at one time might result in my thinking that whatever he is planning might actually make sense.

     There are lots of similarities between Briggs and the American super-agent, Maxwell Smart. Unfortunately for Briggs, he did not have Agent 99 to routinely save the day.

GRADE

My Grade: B-

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