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Watch this: Agent Carter, Sunday July 12, FOX, 9pm

Agent Carter (Hayley Atwell) is armed and dangerous
Agent Carter (Hayley Atwell) is armed and dangerous Agent Carter (Hayley Atwell) is armed and dangerous

Agent Carter, Sunday July 12, FOX, 9pm

MARVEL'S latest comicbook movie-related spin-off arrives on Sunday night in the form of Agent Carter, Captain America's former squeeze and talented covert crime-buster.

Set in 1940s New York, this entertaining action adventure serial finds Hayley Atwell's plucky Brit Peggy Carter taking on shady criminals and post-war sexism with a spring in her stockings-clad step.

With a tone somewhere between Marvel's light-hearted hit Agents of Shield and the slick DC Comics-endorsed Gotham, Agent Carter is good, fairly family-friendly fun from the get-go.

Episode one finds Peggy getting over Cap's recent disappearance by embarking on a secret mission to recover a dangerous new explosive developed by bazillionaire inventor Howard Stark (Iron Man's da), thus risking the wrath of the real agents at the Strategic Scientific Reserve where she works as an 'office gal'.

There are bloodless fights and pithy quips aplenty along the way, plus an enhancing/revealing outfit for Atwell that will have males viewers rushing to set a series link.

:: Foxtv.co.uk/marvels-agent-carter