Moontaker

Moontaker
Series 03, Episode 13
Airdate	March 30, 2009
Previous	Operation Flopsy
Next	Run, Carrie, Run!

Moontaker is episode 13 of Series 3.

Synopsis

After they find out that SKUL has succeeded in landing a spy probe on the moon, M.I.9 assigns the spies to do whatever is necessary to stop their next rocket from being launched. They find that SKUL's ojective is an old British missile network site.

Trivia

• References to the spy genre.
  • ”Green Finger” -- The title is a reference to the James Bond novel and film “Goldfinger”.
  • ”High School Spy Movie” -- Sydney Barbour references “From Russia with Love”.
  • ”Mission: Incredible”
    • “Spy Game” -- in “What, Micah Worry?” Micah Simms must expose a traitor who is a friend of the United States president.
    • The title is a reference to “Mission: Impossible”.
    • The theft is similiar to the first “Mission: Impossible” film and several of the “Mission: Impossible” series episodes.
    • The method used to expose Janus as a KORPS agent is similiar to the storylines seen in “Mission: Impossible” when the Impossible Missions Force needed to convince someone that a trusted advisor had changed loyalties.
      • “Gitano”
      • “Operation Heart”
      • “The Train”
      • “The Vault”
  • ”Moontaker” -- The title is a reference to the James Bond novel and film “Moonraker”
  • ”Mrs King - License to Spy” -- The title is a reference to a license to kill.
  • ”Old School” -- The episode is a parody of 1960’s spy films.
  • ”Revenge is Sweet”
    • The mission to steal the antidote is similiar to “Mission: Impossible”, where the team would have been disavowed if caught.
    • In “Mission: Impossible II” Hunt destroys the virus and retrieves the antidote. Both storylines involve increasing the price of a chemical.
  • ”The Others” -- James Blonde is parody of James Bond. There is a reference to ”Doctor No”.
  • ”We Need to Talk About KORTEX” -- Stella Knight is seen reading the James Bond novel “The Spy Who Loved Me”.
• The missile network is/was certainly a violation of the real life space treaties.
• The name Houston is a reference to Houston, Texas.
• Hermione King mentioned her niece, Aneisha Jones.

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