Spooks

Spooks

Spooks is a British television drama series that originally aired on BBC One from 13 May 2002 – 23 October 2011, consisting of 10 series. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, as the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a...

(known as MI-5 in certain countries) is a BAFTA-winning British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 spy drama television series, created by David Wolstencroft

David Wolstencroft

David Wolstencroft is a Scottish television writer and author. He is best known as creator of the BAFTA award-winning TV spy drama Spooks and its spin-off series, Spooks: Code 9. Wolstencroft was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1969 and grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, later going on to read history at...

. It debuted on BBC One

BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

 on 13 May 2002. The series follows the activities of the intelligence officer

Intelligence officer

An intelligence officer is a person employed by an organization to collect, compile and/or analyze information which is of use to that organization...

s of Section D in MI5

MI5

The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 , is the United Kingdom's internal counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its core intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service focused on foreign threats, Government Communications Headquarters and the Defence...

.

From its debut until its finale on 23 October 2011, 86 episodes were aired across ten complete series. The first series has six episodes, and series two through six have 10 episodes each. Series seven through nine have eight episodes each. The ninth series aired between September and November 2010. The tenth and final series, which began airing on 18 September 2011, consists of six episodes. The individual episodes have no official titles, though there are internal working title

Working title

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s. The USA versions air with titles, which sometimes, but not always, match the working titles.

Series overview

Series		Episodes	Originally aired		DVD release date
			Series premiere Season premiere In North America, a season premiere is the first episode of a new season of a given television show. It often airs in September or October, after several months of reruns.-Evaluating the changes:...	Series finale Season finale A season finale is the final episode of a season of a television program...	Region 1 DVD region code DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...  (USA)	Region 2 DVD region code DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...  (UK)	Region 4 DVD region code DVD region codes are a digital-rights management technique designed to allow film distributors to control aspects of a release, including content, release date, and price, according to the region...  (Aus)	Discs
	1	6	13 May 2002	17 June 2002	13 January 2004	16 June 2003	18 August 2003	3
	2	10	2 June 2003	11 August 2003	11 January 2005	20 September 2004	21 March 2004	5
	3	10	11 October 2004	13 December 2004	31 January 2006	5 September 2005	23 May 2005	5
	4	10	12 September 2005	10 November 2005	9 January 2007	4 September 2006	21 May 2007	5
	5	10	17 September 2006	13 November 2006	8 January 2008	10 September 2007	19 May 2008	5
	6	10	16 October 2007	18 December 2007	20 January 2009	6 October 2008	4 August 2008	5
	7	8	27 October 2008	8 December 2008	26 January 2010	12 October 2009	1 April 2009	4
	8	8	4 November 2009	23 December 2009	25 January 2011	20 September 2010	3 November 2010	4
	9	8	20 September 2010	8 November 2010	12 July 2011	28 February 2011	1 June 2011	3
	10	6	18 September 2011	23 October 2011