I Spy Season 1
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| Release Date | 1968-04-15 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 60 minutes |
| Genres | Action & Adventure |
| Stars | Bill Cosby, Robert Culp |
| Directors | Sheldon Leonard, Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin, Morton S. Fine |
| Release Date | 1968-04-15 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 60 minutes |
| Genres | Action & Adventure |
| Stars | Bill Cosby, Robert Culp |
| Directors | Sheldon Leonard, Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin, Morton S. Fine |
I Spy is an American television secret-agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott. The characters' travels as ostensible "tennis bums", Robinson playing talented tennis as an amateur with the wealthy in return for food and lodging, and Scott tagging along, provided a cover story concealing their roles as top agents for the Pentagon. Their real work usually kept them busy chasing villains, spies, and beautiful women. The creative forces behind the show were writers David Friedkin and Morton Fine and cinematographer Fouad Said. Together they formed Three F Productions under the aegis of Desilu Studios where the show was produced. Fine and Friedkin were co-producers and head writers, and wrote the scripts for 16 episodes, one of which Friedkin directed. Friedkin also dabbled in acting and appeared in two episodes in the first season. Actor-producer Sheldon Leonard, best known for playing gangster roles in the 1940s and '50s, was the executive producer. He also played a gangster-villain role in two episodes and appeared in a third show as himself in a humorous cameo. In addition, he directed one episode and served as occasional second-unit director throughout the series.
A defector in old Hong Kong claims the attention of Robinson & Scott.
One of their own has joined the adverse party, so Scott & Robinson are sent to Hong Kong after him.
A businessman in Hong Kong owes the IRS; Robinson & Scott carry the loot.
A French spy hampers the search for missing files.
A murder happens in front of them, and Robinson & Scott must investigate a mysterious organization.
A nightclub singer is a pawn between drug smugglers (who have kidnapped Scott) and the pair.
A bodyguard assignment for a very unpleasant sort of fellow.
An agent is killed, the microfilm is missing, his girlfriend is threatened.
A prisoner exchange requires a search for a double agent.
Vietnam has not seen three agents assigned there, and Scott suspects Robinson's girlfriend.
A Tokyo seminar on obesity is threatened with a new form of Chinese plague.
Missing microfilm must be paid for or Scott will be killed, but where to get the shekels?
An anti-American group in Japan menaces the last of the aristocracy.
An American schoolteacher, an ancient walled city, a missing train and a valuable cargo lost in China.
A definitive mission to Vietnam in order to rescue the daughter of a physician.
Russian defector for American girl: good business or not?
A womanizing American hampers efforts to protect a Japanese economic conference from Communist sabotage.
A Zulu (Oxon.) who trades diamonds for revenge, a gangster dominating a small village, and radioactive isotopes.
Who is kidnapping the great agronomists in Mexico City?
They bet each other a dollar that one can evade the other for a week, but he's been contaminated with anthrax and must be found in 24 hours.
An exiled South American dictator has plans, or has he, really?
A redoubtable Embassy figure in Mexico deals them a turn.
Quetzalcoatl has appeared in the Mexican jungle, or is it an AWOL cosmonaut pursued by his old comrades?
Infiltrate a revolutionary South American group, with Hollywood connections, that's the assignment.
An agent abroad and pregnant with information must report to the boys back home after her affair with the adverse party.
Bodyguard work for a VIP's daughter. She buys an objet d'art, and hell ensues.
Robinson is brainwashed to kill Scott, whose orders are to kill Robinson.
Gold fever among old friends in the jungles of Mexico.
