33 out of 36 people found the following review helpful:

MI5 - not 9 to 5

John-James Worrall from Warrington, 6th November, 2003

If you have not seen this top class British production yet, put it on your list now. While it doen't have the gloss of a US show such as 24, it more than makes up for it with strong topical storylines and gutsy script. Measured perfomances ensure that the show stays believable.

It takes guts for a show with so many good performers to kill one of its star names off mid series, but Spooks does this and justifies every second.

There is not a week episode of this show, and you will be gripped by the final images ensuring that you place and advance order for the second series.

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10 out of 10 people found the following review helpful:

Blink and you'll miss it.

Jo from Glasgow, 10th October, 2006

What a shame. I love spooks and these episodes are very good as always. The downside is whoever chose to produce this dvd felt that minimalism was the way to go regarding the number of episodes on the disc. What you do get to see is enjoyable - there just isn't enough of it resulting in a slight feeling of being ripped off!

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8 out of 9 people found the following review helpful:

One of the greater spy shows

Sebastian Friston from Hertfordshire, England, 16th September, 2004

A thoroughly entertaining, all substance show, dont expect the glamour of 24, as this has been forfeited in place of a very solid script, topical storylines and excellent acting all around. (Not that 24 was any less, I loved it, its jsut a different style). I have watched every episode apart from the one I missed - the infamous deep fryer scene, which I am renting the DVD to see specifically. I am very impressed. The story, equipment and characters and locations are so real, it is very rare a series of this calibre comes out, an unexpected gem, especially from the BBC!

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5 out of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Excellent programme - shame about the DVD menu

A Customer from West Midlands, 7th August, 2008

I loved Spooks when I first got into it in a later series but have never seen the first series. Now I know what all the fuss was about - the plots are great and its really topical. Every episode makes you think and question the big issues of today. However, one gripe - can someone _please_ tell the producers of the DVD that the menu is REALLY ANNOYING - hard to navigate, no instructions and the intro is too long. Please re-release with a decent menu. As others have said, there should be more episodes on the first disk - we need to get hooked on a new series before you bombard us with other material for real fans. I assume the other 8 episodes from season 1 are on the next two disks so look forward to an improvement.

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Spooks - Complete Season 1

A Customer from Cleveland, UK, 19th February, 2010

Antiquated, but still good series....very watchable

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*** May contain spoilers ***

tricky

docarmoi from , 23rd December, 2009

Excellent series, however dvd set up a bit disappointing, tricky to navigate, and not explained. Also only 3 discs in 1st series, which again goes unexplained, shipping of next series is veryyy delayed, so you forget where you left off.

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Brilliant Mi5

Lexi76 from , 22nd December, 2009

Brilliant first series although showing its age looking forward to renting next series. As per usual ended on cliff hanger and want to know what happens next!!

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spooks series 1

A Customer from Ashington, 30th November, 2009

brill to watch this from the beginning though wish more than 2 episodes were available at a time !

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