
Adderly
V.H. Adderly, a former James-Bond-style operative for I.S.I., is given a desk job in the Department of Miscellaneous Affairs after losing function in his left hand--the result of torture by enemy agents. He hates the mundane assignments he is given, thumbs his nose at protocol, and somehow manages to dig up a threat to national security or a spy at every turn. Melville Greenspan, his boss, is an insecure lifelong pencil-pushing bureaucrat who seems concerned only with not making waves and making sure that the proper forms are filled out. He is afraid that Adderly's snooping will result in his being fired. Mona is the efficient department clerk/secretary, almost bored with her work and longing for excitement (and a date with V.H.). She often covers for Adderly and occasionally helps him on assignments, sometimes with Greenspan's permission.
- 1986-1988
- 2 seasons
- CBS
- Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama
V.H. Adderly, a former James-Bond-style operative for I.S.I., is given a desk job in the Department of Miscellaneous Affairs after losing function in his left hand--the result of torture by enemy agents. He hates the mundane assignments he is given, thumbs his nose at protocol, and somehow manages to dig up a threat to national security or a spy at every turn. Melville Greenspan, his boss, is an insecure lifelong pencil-pushing bureaucrat who seems concerned only with not making waves and making sure that the proper forms are filled out. He is afraid that Adderly's snooping will result in his being fired. Mona is the efficient department clerk/secretary, almost bored with her work and longing for excitement (and a date with V.H.). She often covers for Adderly and occasionally helps him on assignments, sometimes with Greenspan's permission.
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1987 - 1988
Episode 1
Speed of Light
Adderly races against time to prevent a power-hungry colonel from a Middle East nation from detonating a nuclear weapon with stolen plutonium.
Episode 2
Run to Darkness
Fri, Aug 14, 1987
Adderly has no recollection of what happened to him after his hand was injured and he escaped. They think he was recaptured and he revealed stuff.So Clack decides to send him back to where it happened and they send Mona with to take care of him. When he arrives an agent who was there when it happened sees him but doesn't get him. He's hoping that Adderly will lead him to the mole whom they were looking for when they captured and interrogated him.
Episode 3
Eye in the Sky
Fri, Aug 21, 1987
The discovery of secret listening devices at ISI forces Clack to temporarily relocate to Miscellaneous Affairs while Adderly investigates.
Episode 4
To Better Days
Adderly is sent with another agent who's a friend to exchange a million dollars for some information from another agency. At the meet there appears to be someone trying to get the info and there's an explosion and Adderly's friend is killed. Adderly tries to find out what happened and has to deal with an agent from the other agency who thinks Adderly may have been a part of it.
Episode 5
Blood Feud
Fri, Sep 4, 1987
On the way to a vacation in Paris, Adderly has to make a detour to Monte Carlo to verify the identity of a dead hit man.
Episode 6
The Perils of Mona
Fri, Sep 11, 1987
Mona goes to the airport and sees another agent. She sees he left umbrella so she goes on the plane to give it to him but the plane takes off with her on it and she finds herself in Switzerland. She calls Adderly who then follows her. When Clack learns of this he tells Greenspan to go there and bring them back or else he will deduct the cost of keeping them there out of his division's budget. But after Greenspan leaves Clack learns that the man Mona followed has disappeared so he calls Adderly to find him. Eventually Mona is captured so Adderly and Grennspan have to find her and the man.
Episode 7
Midnight in Morocco
Wed, Sep 30, 1987
While they are sorting files together, Adderly tells Mona a tale of one of his adventures in Morocco, and she fantasizes about being his partner in a scenario similar to the movie Casablanca.
Episode 8
The Bridge
Wed, Oct 7, 1987
A bomb is planted on the car of a philanthropist. Adderly is curious and looks into it. And discovers whoever planted it is not a professional. He finds out who bought the explosives and is given some lame excuse, by the ones who bought it. When the person is killed, Adderly goes back and the man's friends tell him, the philanthropist is a Nazi who killed people they know. Adderly talks to the man who admits he's a Nazi but he was not at the place the me claim he was; that he was doing something else, which Clack knows about. But Adderly sets out to prove he's the man.
Episode 9
Headhunter
Wed, Oct 14, 1987
Major Clack is recruited by a former lover for a position in a private security firm, while Adderly tries to keep a visiting diplomat happy - and alive.
Episode 10
Code Name: Chipmunk
Wed, Oct 28, 1987
When Adderly and Greenspan are asked to escort the obnoxious sons of diplomats on a camping trip, Adderly becomes suspicious of a visiting Middle Eastern ruler's press agent.
Episode 11
Spymaster
Wed, Nov 11, 1987
When a new government committee decides that Greenspan is the mastermind of a ring of foreign spies, Adderly must stop laughing long enough to prove them wrong.
Episode 12
Requiem
Wed, Nov 18, 1987
When Adderly, Mona and Greenspan undertake a seemingly routine assignment as ushers at an international film festival, Adderly ends up faking his own death to keep secrets from being smuggled out of the country.
Episode 13
Horse Cents
Wed, Nov 25, 1987
Greenspan is happy to be able to visit the land of his ancestors when he and Adderly are sent to Ireland to prevent the kidnapping of a valuable horse owned by an old friend of Clack's.
Episode 14
Debbie Does Dishes
Greenspan's new maid turns out to be a fugitive with a secret past, leading Adderly to an employment agency that is a front for an underground railroad system.
Episode 15
The Man Who Didn't Know Too Much
Wed, Dec 9, 1987
To Adderly's dismay Melville is being evaluated for operative status and is sent to Poland to escort a Doctor. Thanks to a post-hypnotic suggestion giving Melville courage he manages to link up with the Polish underground when his mission turns deadly. Together with the beautiful leader of the underground they follow a clue to Stockholm and find out what is really going on.
Episode 16
Deathwatch
Wed, Dec 23, 1987
When a terrorist threatens to poison the water supply unless his demands are met. So ISI sends teams to all locations where he can poison the water. When Mona informs Adderly that even they are being given an assignment but when Adderly learns where they're being sent, he tells her that the station they're being sent to is so far out that virtually every station would have to be offline for it to be used. Adderly and Greenspan try to get there but Greenspan makes so many stops that Mona gets there before they do and she finds the terrorist there. Adderly and Greenspan stops at a garage and Adderly gets pinned, so he sends Greenspan to the station to call for help. When Greenspan gets there and finds the terrorist there he goes back to Adderly to tell him he's there. Adderly tells him that he has to do something.
Episode 17
Covert Agenda
Wed, Jan 20, 1988
In Russia one of their scientists, goes into the embassy and says he wants to defect. But they can't get him out. So Adderly, Mona and Greenspan accompany Clack who goes there to see how to handle the whole thing. When they arrive the KGB is willing to let the scientist go if they turn over his notes to them. Adderly wondering why they are so accommodating goes to the man's place and finds what appears to be a shallow grave and meets a Russian policeman. The man doesn't tell Adderly much but Adderly thinks he can be trusted. Meanwhile at the the embassy, Mona is getting close to the man and when she receives a message and takes it to Clack someone knocks her out and takes the message. When Mona tells Adderly what she can remember about the message he goes to the policeman and asks him what he knows; he tells Adderly what they've been missing and what the KGB are doing.
Episode 18
The Game
Wed, Feb 10, 1988
Assigned to check parcels at a conference of NATO ministers, Adderly finds that one of them is being blackmailed by a Soviet agent, and also finds time to invent a board game based on his experiences.
Episode 19
Adventures in Bodysitting
Wed, Feb 17, 1988
An agent kills a man who stole some secret information. He calls Clack saying, he couldn't retrieve the information so he's going to find it but he needs someone to keep an eye on the body till the recovery team can get there. So Clack gives the task to Miscellaneous Affairs, so Adderly, Mona and Greenspan go to where the body is. And while waiting they sense someone is there but can't find anyone. They search the premises and eventually Greenspan is captured by someone who is working with the man who was killed and wants to know where the information which was placed on a micro dot is.
Episode 20
The Interrogation
Wed, Feb 24, 1988
Adderly tries to help a friend who has been framed for the murder of a British spy.
Episode 21
See How They Die
Wed, Mar 2, 1988
An undercover operation is jeopardized when all the subjects start getting killed.
Episode 22
Point of No Return
Wed, Mar 9, 1988
Trying to return a lost crown, Adderly discovers that he is a dead ringer for the ruler of a small country, who may be the target of assassins.