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 Long, Patrick Henry
Release Date: 1965-09-15A defector in old Hong Kong claims the attention of Robinson & Scott.
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Episode 2 - A Cup of Kindness
Release Date: 1965-09-22One of their own has joined the adverse party, so Scott & Robinson are sent to Hong Kong after him.
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Episode 3 - Carry Me Back to Old Tsing-Tao
Release Date: 1965-09-29A businessman in Hong Kong owes the IRS; Robinson & Scott carry the loot.
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Episode 4 - Chrysanthemum
Release Date: 1965-10-06A French spy hampers the search for missing files.
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Episode 5 - Dragon's Teeth
Release Date: 1965-10-13A murder happens in front of them, and Robinson & Scott must investigate a mysterious organization.
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Episode 6 - The Loser
Release Date: 1965-10-20A nightclub singer is a pawn between drug smugglers (who have kidnapped Scott) and the pair.
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Episode 7 - Danny Was a Million Laughs
Release Date: 1965-10-27A bodyguard assignment for a very unpleasant sort of fellow.
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Episode 8 - The Time of the Knife
Release Date: 1965-11-03An agent is killed, the microfilm is missing, his girlfriend is threatened.
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Episode 9 - No Exchange on Damaged Merchandise
Release Date: 1965-11-10A prisoner exchange requires a search for a double agent.
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Episode 10 - Tatia
Release Date: 1965-11-17Vietnam has not seen three agents assigned there, and Scott suspects Robinson's girlfriend.
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Episode 11 - Weight of the World
Release Date: 1965-12-01A Tokyo seminar on obesity is threatened with a new form of Chinese plague.
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Episode 12 - Three Hours on a Sunday Night
Release Date: 1965-12-08Missing microfilm must be paid for or Scott will be killed, but where to get the shekels?
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Episode 13 - Tigers of Heaven
Release Date: 1965-12-15An anti-American group in Japan menaces the last of the aristocracy.
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Episode 14 - Affair in T'Sien Cha
Release Date: 1965-12-29An American schoolteacher, an ancient walled city, a missing train and a valuable cargo lost in China.
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Episode 15 - The Tiger
Release Date: 1966-01-05A definitive mission to Vietnam in order to rescue the daughter of a physician.
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Episode 16 - The Barter
Release Date: 1966-01-12Russian defector for American girl: good business or not?
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Episode 17 - Always Say Goodbye
Release Date: 1966-01-26A womanizing American hampers efforts to protect a Japanese economic conference from Communist sabotage.
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Episode 18 - Court of the Lion
Release Date: 1966-02-02A Zulu (Oxon.) who trades diamonds for revenge, a gangster dominating a small village, and radioactive isotopes.
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Episode 19 - Turkish Delight
Release Date: 1966-02-09Who is kidnapping the great agronomists in Mexico City?
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Episode 20 - Bet Me a Dollar
Release Date: 1966-02-16They 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.
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Episode 21 - Return to Glory
Release Date: 1966-02-23An exiled South American dictator has plans, or has he, really?
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Episode 22 - The Conquest of Maude Murdock
Release Date: 1966-03-02A redoubtable Embassy figure in Mexico deals them a turn.
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Episode 23 - A Day Called 4 Jaguar
Release Date: 1966-03-09Quetzalcoatl has appeared in the Mexican jungle, or is it an AWOL cosmonaut pursued by his old comrades?
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Episode 24 - Crusade to Limbo
Release Date: 1966-03-23Infiltrate a revolutionary South American group, with Hollywood connections, that's the assignment.
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Episode 25 - My Mother, the Spy
Release Date: 1966-03-30An agent abroad and pregnant with information must report to the boys back home after her affair with the adverse party.
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Episode 26 - There Was a Little Girl
Release Date: 1966-04-06Bodyguard work for a VIP's daughter. She buys an objet d'art, and hell ensues.
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Episode 27 - It's All Done with Mirrors
Release Date: 1966-04-13Robinson is brainwashed to kill Scott, whose orders are to kill Robinson.
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Episode 28 - One Thousand Fine
Release Date: 1966-04-27Gold fever among old friends in the jungles of Mexico.