Best Espionage Television Series

Special Ops: Lioness is an American spy thriller television series created by Taylor Sheridan and initially released in 2023. The show has been renewed for two subsequent seasons, with the second debu...

Berlin Station is an American drama series centered around a CIA station in Berlin. The show features a cast including Richard Armitage, Rhys Ifans, and Leland Orser, and was initially developed by Ol...

Counterpart is a science fiction thriller produced by Starz, starring J. K. Simmons. The series spanned two seasons with twenty episodes, debuting in December 2017 and concluding in February 2019. It...

Citadel is an Amazon Prime Video series centered on two former spy operatives, Mason Kane and Nadia Sinh. Following a targeted attack resulting in memory loss, the pair work to recover their erased id...

Wildflower is a Philippine drama series produced by ABS-CBN, starring Maja Salvador. It aired on Primetime Bida from February 2017 to February 2018 as part of the network’s schedule. The show followed...

Pan Am is a television series depicting the operations of a fictional airline, Pan Am Clipper Majestic, during the early 1960s. The show focuses on the roles of its pilot and flight attendant personne...

The Saint was a British crime series broadcast on ITV from 1962 to 1969. Based on Leslie Charteris’s Simon Templar novels, it starred Roger Moore as a gentleman thief who operated outside legal bounda...

Deutschland 83 depicts an East German intelligence operative deployed as a spy in West Germany during 1983. The series follows a young HVA agent undertaking covert operations for the Stasi’s foreign i...

The Prisoner follows Number Six, a British intelligence agent, following his abduction and confinement within an isolated village. The show blends elements of science fiction, psychological drama, and...

The Night Manager is a British television drama adapted from John le Carré’s novel. The six-part series, directed by Susanne Bier, features Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie in a spy thriller storyline....

Seventeen Moments of Spring is a 1973 Soviet television series comprised of twelve episodes. It was directed by Tatyana Lioznova and adapted from Yulian Semyonov’s novel of the same name. The producti...

The Americans is a Cold War spy drama centering on two KGB operatives, Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, who assume the identities of an American married couple in Falls Church, Virginia. Their dual role...

Alias is an ABC television series spanning five seasons (2001-2006) centered on Sydney Bristow, a CIA agent operating under the guise of SD-6. The show featured a core cast including Michael Vartan, R...

Chuck is an action comedy spy drama centered around Chuck Bartowski, a computer expert who unwittingly gains access to classified US intelligence after receiving an encoded email. The CIA and NSA subs...