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:''The Action Man Programme is a [[human]] intelligence organiszation from the [[IDW Generation 1 continuity]].''
[[Action Man]] may be the greatest hero of them all, but even he can't go it alone. As such, this top agent is supported by the '''Action Man Programme''': a crew of elite field agents, intelligence operators, scientists and other specialists under the [[Secret Intelligence Service]], helping to protect the [[United Kingdom]] from that which threatens it.

The current Action Man, Ian Noble, is supported by operatives including Director [[Pauline Bestley]], Quartermaster [[Bryce Chan]], and field agent [[Terrence Salmons]]. [[Doctor X|Mercy Gale]] used to be a member of the organisation before going rogue, and for some time they hired the [[Autobot]] [[Kup (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Kup]] as a freelance operative.

==Fiction==
===IDW Generation 1 continuity===
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The Action Man Programme was founded in [[1586]] under {{w|Francis Walsingham}}, with {{w|Christopher Marlowe}} as the first Action Man. {{storylink|Crisis Intervention|Revolutionaries #1 timeline}} Between the 1960s and 1980s, the incumbent Action Man met a young [[Atomic Man|Mikey Power]] while fighting [[Brasnya]]n smugglers, and later teamed up with [[Joe Colton]] and [[Miles Mayhem]]. {{storylink|Power and Glory}} {{storylink|Secret Raiders: A Revolution Prelude|Secret Raiders}} During the 1990s, the Action Man Programme included "[[Team Extreme]]", a group of totally radical agents. {{storylink|When Eagles Scream}}

The Action Man of the 21st century, {{i|Mike Brogan}}, was responsible for inducting Sixth Form student into the AMP's tech division. Following Brogan's death during one of [[Doctor X]]'s plots, pressure from the [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] thanks to Noble's role in thwarting X's scheme led to Noble being made the new Action Man.

Some time later, Noble would discover that his friend and mentor Mercy Gale was actually Doctor X, but the AMP was unable to capture her. {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 1|Action Man profile}}

The Action Man Programme investigated a distress beacon coming from [[Mount Olympus]], where they discovered that [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] dogtags had been left there shortly before the [[Ore-13]] in the mountain exploded. The AMP passed this information on to their contacts in the [[United States of America|United States]] government. {{storylink|Concorde Hymn}} After discovering that G.I. Joe and [[M.A.S.K.]] were holding Kup as a prisoner on [[Governors Island]], the Action Man Programme deployed Action Man to investigate; Ian ended up breaking Kup out, and the two drove to [[Monument Valley]] {{storylink|The Modern World}} just in time to join the battle at [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]]. {{storylink|Valley Forge}}

Kup would subsequently join the AMP as an independent contractor, which led to [[Bryce Chan]] installing upgrades into his body that would come in helpful in taking down the [[Decepticon]] [[Transit (G1)|Transit]]. {{w|Upgrade}} After the activation of the [[Talisman (G1)|Talisman]] transformed the people of [[Verenya]] into [[Dire Wraith]] mutates, Chan and the Action Man Programme took them into custody in the hope of transforming them back. {{storylink|Crisis Intervention}} While Action Man and Kup went on a global journey to try and find more information on the Talisman, the AMP was unable to turn them back, and eventually brought the mutated humans to an [[Onyx]] facility in [[Buenos Aires]] in order to leverage the help of G.I. Joe. {{storylink|When Eagles Scream}} This ultimately ended up being unnecessary, as — after a battle with the [[Iron Ring]] that the AMP took part in — [[G.B. Blackrock|Garrison Blackrock]] was able to link with [[Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan]] and use him to broadcast energy that reverted the effects. {{storylink|Ghost in the Machine (IDW)|Ghost in the Machine}}

==External links==
*{{i|Action Man Programme}} at the IDW Hasbro Wiki

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