Adderly

For the English town, see Adderley.

Adderly
Created by	Elliott Baker, based on his novel Pocock & Pitt
Starring	Winston Rekert Dixie Seatle Jonathan Welsh Ken Pogue
Country of origin	Canada
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	44
Production
Production location(s)	Toronto
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Global Television Network JayGee Productions Robert Cooper Productions
Release
Original network	Global
Original release	September 24, 1986 (1986-09-24) – March 9, 1988 (1988-03-09)
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

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.

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.

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 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)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	1	"Hit-Man Complex"	Don McBrearty	Elliott Baker	September 24, 1986 (1986-09-24)
2	2	"Mailman"	Gilbert Shilton	Robert Arnott	October 1, 1986 (1986-10-01)
3	3	"Critical Mass"	Paul Shapiro	Aubrey Solomon	October 8, 1986 (1986-10-08)
4	4	"A Change of Mind"	Joseph L. Scanlan	Len Janson & Chuck Menville	October 15, 1986 (1986-10-15)
5	5	"Backfire"	Gilbert Shilton	Alfred Harris	October 22, 1986 (1986-10-22)
6	6	"Rich Kid"	Randy Bradshaw	Elliott Baker	October 29, 1986 (1986-10-29)
7	7	"Capture the Flag"	Charles Dennis	Charles Dennis	November 5, 1986 (1986-11-05)
8	8	"Nina Who?"	Timothy Bond	Carl Binder	November 12, 1986 (1986-11-12)
9	9	"The Dancing Lesson"	William Corcoran	Elliott Baker	November 19, 1986 (1986-11-19)
10	10	"Adderly with Eggroll"	Peter Rowe	Tony Sheer	November 26, 1986 (1986-11-26)
11	11	"Brotherly Love"	Bruce Pittman	Jaron Summers	December 3, 1986 (1986-12-03)
12	12	"Secrets of the Sun"	William Corcoran	Jim Osborne	January 7, 1987 (1987-01-07)
13	13	"A Matter of Discretion"	F. Harvey Frost	Judith Thompson	January 14, 1987 (1987-01-14)
14	14	"Nemesis"	Timothy Bond	Carl Binder	February 4, 1987 (1987-02-04)
15	15	"Year of the Tiger"	Alan Simmonds	Jim Henshaw	February 11, 1987 (1987-02-11)
16	16	"Who Do, Voodoo"	William Corcoran	Ken Gass	February 18, 1987 (1987-02-18)
17	17	"Miscellaneous News"	Timothy Bond	Guy Mullally & Gregor Hutchison	February 25, 1987 (1987-02-25)
18	18	"Tiers of Interment"	George Bloomfield	Carl Binder	March 4, 1987 (1987-03-04)
19	19	"Running Backward"	Stefan Scaini	Story by: Carol Bolt & Carl Binder Teleplay by: Carl Binder	April 8, 1987 (1987-04-08)
20	20	"Class of '87"	Timothy Bond	Don Mankiewicz	April 29, 1987 (1987-04-29)
21	21	"Mirror Man"	Jorge Montesi	Jim Henshaw	May 13, 1987 (1987-05-13)
22	22	"A Far, Far Better Thing"	Rene Bonniere	Peter Lauterman & Angelo Stea	May 27, 1987 (1987-05-27)

Season 2 (1987–88)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
23	1	"Speed of Light"	George Bloomfield	Glenn Norman	August 7, 1987 (1987-08-07)
24	2	"Run to Darkness"	Jorge Montesi	Jim Henshaw	August 14, 1987 (1987-08-14)
25	3	"Eye in the Sky"	Joseph L. Scanlan	Carl Binder	August 21, 1987 (1987-08-21)
26	4	"To Better Days"	Joseph L. Scanlan	Johnny Segura & Alan Zweig	August 28, 1987 (1987-08-28)
27	5	"Blood Feud"	George Bloomfield	Jim Henshaw	September 4, 1987 (1987-09-04)
28	6	"The Perils of Mona"	Timothy Bond	Carl Binder	September 11, 1987 (1987-09-11)
29	7	"Midnight in Morocco"	George Bloomfield	Denis Gibson & Kevin Scanlon	September 30, 1987 (1987-09-30)
30	8	"The Bridge"	Don McBrearty	Peter Lauterman & Angelo Stea	October 7, 1987 (1987-10-07)
31	9	"Headhunter"	Don McBrearty	Jim Henshaw	October 14, 1987 (1987-10-14)
32	10	"Code Name: Chipmunk"	Stefan Scaini	Peter Haynes	October 28, 1987 (1987-10-28)
33	11	"Spymaster"	Bruce Pittman	David Cole	November 11, 1987 (1987-11-11)
34	12	"Requiem"	George Bloomfield	Carl Binder	November 18, 1987 (1987-11-18)
35	13	"Horse Cents"	George Bloomfield	Jerome McCann	November 25, 1987 (1987-11-25)
36	14	"Debbie Does Dishes"	Bruce Pittman	Douglas Rodger	December 2, 1987 (1987-12-02)
37	15	"The Man Who Didn't Know Too Much"	John Bell	Carl Binder	December 9, 1987 (1987-12-09)
38	16	"Deathwatch"	George Bloomfield	Jim Henshaw	December 23, 1987 (1987-12-23)
39	17	"Covert Agenda"	George Bloomfield	Lyle Slack	January 20, 1988 (1988-01-20)
40	18	"The Game"	TBA	TBA	February 10, 1988 (1988-02-10)
41	19	"Adventures in Babysitting"	TBA	TBA	February 17, 1988 (1988-02-17)
42	20	"The Interrogation"	TBA	TBA	February 24, 1988 (1988-02-24)
43	21	"See How They Die"	TBA	TBA	March 2, 1988 (1988-03-02)
44	22	"Point of No Return"	TBA	TBA	March 9, 1988 (1988-03-09)

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. Canadian broadcasts of the series did not commence until January 1987.

External links

• Adderly at IMDb
• Adderly at epguides.com

• Eirik Knutzen. "Manual Labor Finally Paid Off for Rekert." Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 2, 1987, p. TV2.
• Terrace, Vincent (2009). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2007 (Volume 1). Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-3305-6.