Review of Reilly: Ace of Spies

I saw scenes recreated in this series that I'd never expected to see, e.g. the executions in the Lubyanka of the cell of left-women one of whom shot Lenin. Was this a recreation of a sole written source, or a recreation from supplementary historical sources? Is it late-Soviet-period 1983-revisionism or 1983-English-TV-realism? Does it gore everybody's sacred bulls or mostly just red ones? These thoughts ran thru my left-American mind as I watched it on cable-TV (maybe via some San Francisco Bay-area PBS station) recently (2005.) It's more than just adventure-TV to put it mildly. It ought to be made available in a boxed set of DVDs (is it?) - Bill Costley www.billcostley.blog-city.com