Spooks

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Name:	Spooks (in the UK) / MI5 and MI-5 (elsewhere)
Abbreviation(s):
Creator:	David Wolstencroft
Date(s):	2004-2011 (at least)
Medium:	TV
Country of Origin:	UK
External Links:	Wikipedia entry on Spooks, BBC home page for Spooks
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Spooks (aka MI5) was a BBC spy drama series about operatives in the British counter-intelligence and security agency, MI5. The team and danger aspects made it attractive to fans and fic writers. The team changed over time, but one popular character was Lucas North, played by Richard Armitage.

Example Fanworks

Meta

• Tinker, Tessa, Zoe, Spy by sangerin, a Tessa Phillips/Zoe Reynolds ship manifesto (Dec 2004)
• Trust in Your Enemy is a Fine Art by brightbear, a Tom/McCann ship manifesto (Dec 2004)
• A Slow Beating Between Them by hestia8, a Harry/Ruth ship manifesto (Jan 2005)

Sites & Communities

• The Grid, a Yahoo! group
• Spooks Information Central
• Spooks Forum UK
• Spooky Doings LiveJournal Community (also contains icons and fanfic)

Fanfiction

• Spooks | MI-5 at Archive of Our Own
• MI-5/Spooks on fanfiction.net
• The Grid After Dark, a Yahoo! group
• Spooks Information Central - fan fiction forum
• Spooks fanfiction on WattPad