Veteran secret service operative V.H. Adderly (Winston Rekert) relates the story of a mission he had in Morocco a decade earlier. His audience is Mona (Dixie Seatle) - bored secretary in the same government intelligence Miscellaneous Affairs department he has been banished to. It helps them make the time pass faster working late while they wait out a heat wave in a steaming-hot office during summer.
Boxes of top-secret documents are scheduled for shredding. Melville Greenspan (Jonathan Welsh) - their prickly boss, wants the files sorted alphabetically and by date. He specifies that, before he goes to play tennis with HIS boss Major Clack (Kenneth Pogue). Adderly and Mona pretend to acquiesce knowing that it makes no difference what order the files are in and that Greenspan just assigned it to them to impose his will abusing what little authority he has.
Whilst they pretend to work, over Chinese take out and with a TV showing an old movie, the story Adderly tells is one Mona's imagination interprets like something from the Golden Age of Hollywood (Specifically Casablanca). She casts herself as this femme fatale character from his past and envisions the adventure in the most romantic terms including her work-crush Adderly whom she imagines in a tuxedo. In her mind it is fulfillment of a fantasy and escape from the tedium of work.
Mona's imagination places Greenspan (Channelling Peter Lorre) and Clack (Channelling Claude Rains) as dubious characters in the fantasy. Somehow she even finds space for a couple of very attractive foreign women (Cynthia Dale and Lolita Davidovich in off-beat cameos). But it is difficult to tell what really happened in Morocco. Mona gets a key fact wrong that puts the whole thing in an entirely different light.
If you are cynical you can look at this as a rehash of the William Holden-Audrey Hepburn movie 'Paris When It Sizzles' with an homage re-staging of Casablanca thrown in. For ideas, that is far from a bad one when it comes to the formula of this show.
Canadian series Adderly was one that Canadian TV network Global offered as fulfillment of it's obligation to broadcast domestic content. Though it had an espionage adventure theme with comedy elements it wasn't really the level of spoof of American spy comedy 'Get Smart'. The humour was considerably more dry. Often times it looked like one of those sitcoms set in an office because it could be exactly like those.
Some of the difference was in the attention payed to what Winston Rekert offered as a leading man. The dynamic between he and Dixie Seatle played that up as a recurring theme for, if not basis of the series.
Boxes of top-secret documents are scheduled for shredding. Melville Greenspan (Jonathan Welsh) - their prickly boss, wants the files sorted alphabetically and by date. He specifies that, before he goes to play tennis with HIS boss Major Clack (Kenneth Pogue). Adderly and Mona pretend to acquiesce knowing that it makes no difference what order the files are in and that Greenspan just assigned it to them to impose his will abusing what little authority he has.
Whilst they pretend to work, over Chinese take out and with a TV showing an old movie, the story Adderly tells is one Mona's imagination interprets like something from the Golden Age of Hollywood (Specifically Casablanca). She casts herself as this femme fatale character from his past and envisions the adventure in the most romantic terms including her work-crush Adderly whom she imagines in a tuxedo. In her mind it is fulfillment of a fantasy and escape from the tedium of work.
Mona's imagination places Greenspan (Channelling Peter Lorre) and Clack (Channelling Claude Rains) as dubious characters in the fantasy. Somehow she even finds space for a couple of very attractive foreign women (Cynthia Dale and Lolita Davidovich in off-beat cameos). But it is difficult to tell what really happened in Morocco. Mona gets a key fact wrong that puts the whole thing in an entirely different light.
If you are cynical you can look at this as a rehash of the William Holden-Audrey Hepburn movie 'Paris When It Sizzles' with an homage re-staging of Casablanca thrown in. For ideas, that is far from a bad one when it comes to the formula of this show.
Canadian series Adderly was one that Canadian TV network Global offered as fulfillment of it's obligation to broadcast domestic content. Though it had an espionage adventure theme with comedy elements it wasn't really the level of spoof of American spy comedy 'Get Smart'. The humour was considerably more dry. Often times it looked like one of those sitcoms set in an office because it could be exactly like those.
Some of the difference was in the attention payed to what Winston Rekert offered as a leading man. The dynamic between he and Dixie Seatle played that up as a recurring theme for, if not basis of the series.