I Spy (1965)
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.
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Episode 1 - So Coldly Sweet
Release Date: 1966-09-14The phonybaloney defector is a real target when the game turns serious.
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Episode 2 - Lori
Release Date: 1966-09-21Six demolitions experts down, one to go, and his sister the only lead.
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Episode 3 - Sophia
Release Date: 1966-09-28Scott's foster daughter in Rome is about to be married, and he's in a great deal of trouble.
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Episode 4 - Vendetta
Release Date: 1966-10-05A family court settles an old Italian grudge.
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Episode 5 - A Gift from Alexander
Release Date: 1966-10-12A literary masterpiece is out of the Soviet Union, will our boys kindly retrieve it?
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Episode 6 - Trial by Treehouse
Release Date: 1966-10-19Smuggler plans citywide blackout.
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Episode 7 - Sparrowhawk
Release Date: 1966-10-26Las Vegas on vacation with a king as bodyguards, and an assassin's menace.
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Episode 8 - Will the Real Good Guys Please Stand Up?
Release Date: 1966-11-22Desperate measures to kidnap a scientist: faux Scotty and Kelly!
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Episode 9 - Bridge of Spies
Release Date: 1966-11-09In a tour of Venice, the old orthodontist gives Robinson a guide with a watch, a special watch, the kind that bugs spies.
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Episode 10 - One of Our Bombs Is Missing
Release Date: 1966-11-16A very delicate dilemma, an atom bomb lost in a plane crash near an Italian village.
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Episode 11 - To Florence, with Love (1)
Release Date: 1966-11-23Squiring a Leonardo to Florence.
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Episode 12 - To Florence, with Love (2)
Release Date: 1966-11-30Now, to replace the faux Leonardo in the museum with the real one in our hands.
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Episode 13 - Lisa
Release Date: 1966-12-07A Grecian mail order bride may be a Trojan horse.
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Episode 14 - Little Boy Lost
Release Date: 1966-12-14Lonely little tyke borrows a guidance system to attract his father's attention. The adverse party is interested.
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Episode 15 - Father Abraham
Release Date: 1966-12-21Young agent is bait in trap set for KGB, but his father is not in on the setup.
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Episode 16 - Rome ... Take Away Three
Release Date: 1966-12-28Blackmail and murder at the U.S. Embassy.
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Episode 17 - Tonia
Release Date: 1967-01-04A most prickly diversion. Scott has fallen in love with a radical expatriate, Robinson disapproves, Scott resigns. Her cell leader welcomes discord; she is murdered, Robinson is blamed.
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Episode 18 - Child Out of Time
Release Date: 1967-01-11Little girl gifted with memory holds the Nazi past in her keeping.
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Episode 19 - The Trouble with Temple
Release Date: 1967-01-25The trouble with Temple is her boyfriend is evil.
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Episode 20 - The War Lord
Release Date: 1967-02-01Photojournalism brings in money, but the photojournalist is held captive.
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Episode 21 - A Room with a Rack
Release Date: 1967-02-08Torture pure and simple has Robinson down in the dumps, with his career in jeopardy.
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Episode 22 - Mainly on the Plains
Release Date: 1967-02-22Don Quixote is the fascination of a professor with vital plans and an errant mind.
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Episode 23 - Get Thee to a Nunnery
Release Date: 1967-03-01Yanks vs. Brits after Nazi art treasures in a convent garden.
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Episode 24 - Blackout
Release Date: 1967-03-08Flashback on a murdered ballerina, Soviet style?
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Episode 25 - Magic Mirror
Release Date: 1967-03-15Difficult situation, lover tied to exiled strongman dealing in opposing missiles.
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Episode 26 - Night Train to Madrid
Release Date: 1967-03-22USO tour interrupted by adverse machinations toward angry comedian.
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Episode 27 - Casanova from Canarsie
Release Date: 1967-03-29Mata Hari vs. file clerk.
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Episode 28 - Cops and Robbers
Release Date: 1967-04-12Old home week with the adverse party next door.