With the Cold War ending, the US government decides it no longer needs an abundance of spies and begins downsizing.
Secret agent Lorne Cash (Linden Ashby) becomes one of the spies who is let go – but his unemployment is short-lived and the President (Keith Szarabajka) personally asks him to head ECHO (The Emergency Counter Hostilities Organisation).
Things are looking up for the distinguished agent until he is teamed with Maxine “Max” London (Allison Smith), a young rookie eager to learn from the best.
As Lorne begins his duties, he realises that since the Cold War ended, the spy game has taken on a whole new style he is not fully accustomed to. Lorne is an old-fashioned fists and bravado type, surly, sarcastic, and almost uncontrollable; Max is sexy, athletic, techno-smart, and has a photographic memory.
Stories followed Lorne as he attempted to play by the rules of a new game he didn’t quite understand.
He and Max battled the enemy and each other with ingenuity and style, pretty much ignoring their frustrated boss, young wunderkind Micah (Bruce McCarty), despite the fact that he reported directly to the President (who was heard on speakerphones as a drawling, Southern buffoon).
There was lots of high-tech gadgetry and in-jokes (like Robert Culp trying to blow up the Statue of Liberty), but the cartoonish series soon went the way of the out-of-work spies it featured. The series was canned after only nine episodes, leaving four unaired.
Lorne Cash
Linden Ashby Maxine “Max” London
Allison Smith Micah Simms
Bruce McCarty Dr Quentin
Patrick Macnee Yolanda Trench
DD Howard The President
Keith Szarabajka
