Adderly

{{For multi|the English town|Adderley||Adderley (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox television

| image =

| runtime = 60 minutes

| creator = Elliott Baker, based on his novel Pocock & Pitt

| starring = Winston Rekert
Dixie Seatle
Jonathan Welsh
Ken Pogue

| company = Global Television Network
JayGee Productions
Robert Cooper Productions

| country = Canada

| network = Global

| location = Toronto

| first_aired = {{start date|1986|9|24}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1988|3|9}}

| num_seasons = 2

| num_episodes = 44

}}

Adderly is a Canadian television adventure-drama series which aired from 1986 to 1988. It was broadcast on both Canadian TV and on CBS in the United States. It starred Vancouver-born Winston Rekert as "charming and witty V. H. Adderly," an operative working for an obscure government intelligence agency.Eirik Knutzen. "Manual Labor Finally Paid Off for Rekert." Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 2, 1987, p. TV2.

Background

Adderly was based on series creator Elliott Baker's novel, Pocock & Pitt.

Cast

Winston Rekert as V. H. (Virgil Homer) Adderly
Jonathan Welsh as Melville Greenspan
Dixie Seatle as Mona Ellerby
Ken Pogue as Major Jonathan B. Clack

Occasional:

Mairlyn Smith as Debbie Greenspan
Jack Leitch as Victor Barinov

Plot

V. H. Adderly (Rekert) is a secret agent for an organization known as the I.S.I (International Security and Intelligence). Before the series begins, an enemy agent, Victor Barinov, crushes Adderly's left hand with a medieval mace during an interrogation in East Germany. Adderly loses the use of the hand, and since he is no longer considered useful as an active agent, he is reassigned to the I.S.I.'s tiny Department of Miscellaneous Affairs, located in a small basement office. This is meant to be a sort of "good service" reward for Adderly, as his supposedly cushy Miscellaneous Affairs job is mostly concerned with mundane in-house administrative paperwork. During the series, Adderly consistently finds ways to use his vague, non-specific status as a representative of "Miscellaneous Affairs" to actively investigate anything the I.S.I. has overlooked, and regularly goes above and beyond his mundane duties to uncover and neutralize dread plots that the larger organization has failed to investigate.Terrace, Vincent (2009). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2007 (Volume 1). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-3305-6}}.

Miscellaneous Affairs is officially run by Melville Greenspan (Welsh), a man fastidiously devoted to bureaucracy and unwilling to allow Adderly the freedom to pursue his outside interests. The only other departmental staff member is Mona Ellerby (Seatle), Greenspan's over-qualified secretary who is addicted to adventure and romance novels. Greenspan's superior is Major Jonathan B. Clack (Pogue), who is in charge of the I.S.I. as a whole, and is responsible for Adderly's reassignment from active field operations to Miscellaneous Affairs.

Through the course of the 44-episode run, Adderly repeatedly demonstrates his ability to perform the duties of an active field agent, even saving the life of Major Clack himself. This only confirms to Clack that Adderly is an important asset at his current post. It is implied{{citation needed|date=August 2015}} that Clack may have created the Department of Miscellaneous Affairs to allow Adderly the freedom and flexibility to pursue various cases which the I.S.I. couldn't normally handle.

Episode guide

=Season 1 (1986–87)=

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|EpisodeNumber=1

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title = Hit-Man Complex

|DirectedBy = Don McBrearty

|WrittenBy = Elliott Baker

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|9|24}}

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|EpisodeNumber=2

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title = Mailman

|DirectedBy = Gilbert Shilton

|WrittenBy = Robert Arnott

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|10|1}}

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|EpisodeNumber=3

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title = Critical Mass

|DirectedBy = Paul Shapiro

|WrittenBy = Aubrey Solomon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|10|8}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=4

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title = A Change of Mind

|DirectedBy = Joseph L. Scanlan

|WrittenBy = Len Janson & Chuck Menville

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|10|15}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=5

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title = Backfire

|DirectedBy = Gilbert Shilton

|WrittenBy = Alfred Harris

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|10|22}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=6

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title = Rich Kid

|DirectedBy = Randy Bradshaw

|WrittenBy = Elliott Baker

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|10|29}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=7

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title = Capture the Flag

|DirectedBy = Charles Dennis

|WrittenBy = Charles Dennis

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|11|5}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=8

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title = Nina Who?

|DirectedBy = Timothy Bond

|WrittenBy = Carl Binder

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|11|12}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=9

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title = The Dancing Lesson

|DirectedBy = William Corcoran

|WrittenBy = Elliott Baker

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|11|19}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=10

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title = Adderly with Eggroll

|DirectedBy = Peter Rowe

|WrittenBy = Tony Sheer

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|11|26}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=11

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title = Brotherly Love

|DirectedBy = Bruce Pittman

|WrittenBy = Jaron Summers

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1986|12|3}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=12

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title = Secrets of the Sun

|DirectedBy = William Corcoran

|WrittenBy = Jim Osborne

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|1|7}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=13

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title = A Matter of Discretion

|DirectedBy = F. Harvey Frost

|WrittenBy = Judith Thompson

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|1|14}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=14

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title = Nemesis

|DirectedBy = Timothy Bond

|WrittenBy = Carl Binder

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|2|4}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=15

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title = Year of the Tiger

|DirectedBy = Alan Simmonds

|WrittenBy = Jim Henshaw

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|2|11}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=16

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title = Who Do, Voodoo

|DirectedBy = William Corcoran

|WrittenBy = Ken Gass

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|2|18}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=17

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title = Miscellaneous News

|DirectedBy = Timothy Bond

|WrittenBy = Guy Mullally & Gregor Hutchison

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|2|25}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=18

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title = Tiers of Interment

|DirectedBy = George Bloomfield

|WrittenBy = Carl Binder

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|3|4}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=19

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title = Running Backward

|DirectedBy = Stefan Scaini

|WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s= Carol Bolt & Carl Binder |t= Carl Binder}}

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|4|8}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=20

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title = Class of '87

|DirectedBy = Timothy Bond

|WrittenBy = Don Mankiewicz

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|4|29}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=21

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title = Mirror Man

|DirectedBy = Jorge Montesi

|WrittenBy = Jim Henshaw

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|5|13}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=22

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title = A Far, Far Better Thing

|DirectedBy = Rene Bonniere

|WrittenBy = Peter Lauterman & Angelo Stea

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|5|27}}

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=Season 2 (1987–88)=

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|EpisodeNumber=23

|EpisodeNumber2=1

|Title = Speed of Light

|DirectedBy = George Bloomfield

|WrittenBy = Glenn Norman

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|8|7}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=24

|EpisodeNumber2=2

|Title = Run to Darkness

|DirectedBy = Jorge Montesi

|WrittenBy = Jim Henshaw

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|8|14}}

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|EpisodeNumber=25

|EpisodeNumber2=3

|Title = Eye in the Sky

|DirectedBy = Joseph L. Scanlan

|WrittenBy = Carl Binder

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|8|21}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=26

|EpisodeNumber2=4

|Title = To Better Days

|DirectedBy = Joseph L. Scanlan

|WrittenBy = Johnny Segura & Alan Zweig

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|8|28}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=27

|EpisodeNumber2=5

|Title = Blood Feud

|DirectedBy = George Bloomfield

|WrittenBy = Jim Henshaw

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|9|4}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=28

|EpisodeNumber2=6

|Title = The Perils of Mona

|DirectedBy = Timothy Bond

|WrittenBy = Carl Binder

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|9|11}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=29

|EpisodeNumber2=7

|Title = Midnight in Morocco

|DirectedBy = George Bloomfield

|WrittenBy = Denis Gibson & Kevin Scanlon

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|9|30}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=30

|EpisodeNumber2=8

|Title = The Bridge

|DirectedBy = Don McBrearty

|WrittenBy = Peter Lauterman & Angelo Stea

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|10|7}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=31

|EpisodeNumber2=9

|Title = Headhunter

|DirectedBy = Don McBrearty

|WrittenBy = Jim Henshaw

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|10|14}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=32

|EpisodeNumber2=10

|Title = Code Name: Chipmunk

|DirectedBy = Stefan Scaini

|WrittenBy = Peter Haynes

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|10|28}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=33

|EpisodeNumber2=11

|Title = Spymaster

|DirectedBy = Bruce Pittman

|WrittenBy = David Cole

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|11|11}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=34

|EpisodeNumber2=12

|Title = Requiem

|DirectedBy = George Bloomfield

|WrittenBy = Carl Binder

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|11|18}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=35

|EpisodeNumber2=13

|Title = Horse Cents

|DirectedBy = George Bloomfield

|WrittenBy = Jerome McCann

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|11|25}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=36

|EpisodeNumber2=14

|Title = Debbie Does Dishes

|DirectedBy = Bruce Pittman

|WrittenBy = Douglas Rodger

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|12|2}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=37

|EpisodeNumber2=15

|Title = The Man Who Didn't Know Too Much

|DirectedBy = John Bell

|WrittenBy = Carl Binder

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|12|9}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=38

|EpisodeNumber2=16

|Title = Deathwatch

|DirectedBy = George Bloomfield

|WrittenBy = Jim Henshaw

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1987|12|23}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=39

|EpisodeNumber2=17

|Title = Covert Agenda

|DirectedBy = George Bloomfield

|WrittenBy = Lyle Slack

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|1|20}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=40

|EpisodeNumber2=18

|Title = The Game

|DirectedBy =

|WrittenBy =

|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|2|10}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=41

|EpisodeNumber2=19

|Title = Adventures in Babysitting

|DirectedBy =

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|2|17}}

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|EpisodeNumber=42

|EpisodeNumber2=20

|Title = The Interrogation

|DirectedBy =

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|2|24}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=43

|EpisodeNumber2=21

|Title = See How They Die

|DirectedBy =

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|3|2}}

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{{Episode list

|EpisodeNumber=44

|EpisodeNumber2=22

|Title = Point of No Return

|DirectedBy =

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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|1988|3|9}}

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Broadcast history

Adderly aired from September 1986 through May 1987 (its first season) in the 11:30pm CBS Late Night slot on the CBS network. For the second season (beginning in August 1987), the show's popularity prompted CBS to run episodes in prime time at 10:00pm on Fridays, but there was little promotion and the show didn't do well in the ratings. CBS moved the show back to the 11:30pm time slot in September 1987 where it remained until the series ended. That following summer the series was rerun on Mondays/Wednesdays at 1:00am.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w8KztFy6QYwC&dq=%22Adderly+Comedy+Drama%22&pg=PA13 |first1=Tim |last1=Brooks |author-link1=Tim Brooks (historian) |first2=Earle |last2=Marsh |year=2007 |edition=9 |title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present |page=13 |publisher=Ballantine Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-345-49773-4 |access-date=2024-07-04 }} Canadian broadcasts of the series did not commence until January 1987.

References

External links

{{IMDb title|0090391|Adderly}}
{{epguides|Adderly}}

Category:Global Television Network original programming

Category:CBS original programming

Category:1980s Canadian comedy-drama television series

Category:1986 Canadian television series debuts

Category:1988 Canadian television series endings

Category:Television shows based on American novels

Category:Television series by Corus Entertainment

Category:Television series by MGM Television