You can take a spy out of the cold war, but you can't take the cold war out of the spy in this satiric TV situation comedy. Kennedy Smith (Linden Ashby) is an American espionage agent who for years has been locked in a life-and-death struggle with his nemesis, Kreigman (Damian Young). Smith, however, figures he's had as much cloak-and-daggering as a man can take, and decides to give up his life as a spy to settle into a quiet life in the suburbs with his wife Lily (Susan Walters). But Kreigman isn't about to give up on making Smith's life a living Hell, even if he has to do it on his own time; Kreigman and his partner-in-crime Barbara Bush (Tara Rosling) move in next door to Kennedy and Lily, and soon the war of wills is being waged in the land of crabgrass and barbecues. The War Next Door first aired on the USA cable network on July 23, 2000. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide