Spooks (TV series)

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Spooks
Spooks title sequence
Also known as	MI-5
Genre	Spy drama Action-adventure Mystery
Created by	David Wolstencroft
Starring	Peter Firth Matthew Macfadyen Keeley Hawes David Oyelowo Hugh Simon Rory MacGregor Nicola Walker Rupert Penry Jones Olga Sosnovska Raza Jaffrey Miranda Raison Hermione Norris Gemma Jones Richard Armitage Shazad Latif Sophia Myles Max Brown Lara Pulver Geoffrey Streatfeild William Hope Simon Russell Beale Tim McInnerny Jenny Agutter
Theme music composer	Jennie Muskett
Composers	Jennie Muskett (Series 1–4) Paul Leonard-Morgan (Series 5–10)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	10
No. of episodes	86 (list of episodes)
Original release
Network	BBC One BBC Three
Release	13 May 2002 (2002-05-13) – 23 October 2011 (2011-10-23)
Related
Spooks: Code 9 Spooks: The Greater Good
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Spooks (known as MI-5 in some countries) is a British television spy drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 to 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 seasons. The title is a colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the activities of the intelligence officers of Section D in MI5, based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid. In the United States, the show is broadcast under the title MI-5. In Canada, the programme originally aired as MI-5, but later aired on BBC Canada as Spooks.

The series continued with a film, Spooks: The Greater Good, which was released on 8 May 2015.^[1][2]