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Secret Agent Doll: Havoc

12 Jun 2017

I owned a Barbie doll (and a cosmetics’ Barbie head) in the 1970s but to my mind, she struck me as somewhat vague.

Debonair Detectives

7 Jun 2017

Somewhere between the laid-back Californian bromance of Starsky and Hutch and the short, sharp fist to the face of The Sweeney we forget that some detectives played by the Queensbury Rules.

As much as cool and groovy 60s secret agents and crime-fighters battle under a snappy little acronym or title, so too do the thoroughly bad eggs on the other side. (N.B. White pussy cat not included.)

Bond 2.0

2 Jun 2017

Spies existed both in fact and in fiction long before Commander James Bond became M.I.5’s Agent 007 but his zeitgeist attitude of detached cool captured the public’s imagination to such a degree that no spy who followed him could escape the comparison.