I Spy
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.
Assassinating a double agent on the beach in the Aegean just doesn't sound like fun.
Deep cover agent is blown, won't leave sideline.
A very small person on the Embassy staff becomes a very large factor in espionage plans.
A mysterious stone cube holds the key to rebellion against the Moroccan government.
The best you can say about a child prodigy who takes you for a ride is maybe he's defective, after all.
To Marrakesh with an old man's cash and his daughter and some bandits after the old man.
Betrayal and deduction on the trail of an absconded mathematician last seen on the isle of Mykonos.
On the border between Greece and Yugoslavia, airplane trouble besets USAF flights. Worse than that, who has been sleeping with the mayor's daughter?
Anti-submarine warfare and mysterious assassinations.
Undercover counterspying at NASA with an ex-wife as beard, who disappears.
A holy leader of men dies apparently on the eve of religious fighting in Morocco.
Robinson takes a powder and calls it quits in the Greek archipelago.
San Francisco, the Empress of China, fireworks, the Reds.
Pursued all the way down on the farm, Robinson & Scott fend off attackers.
Bouts of depression hit Scott too hard for anything but counseling. He and Robinson independently remember training school.
Hare & hounds in San Francisco with the cadets, a charming tourist and a ringer.
A nuclear power station is planned for the desert, but an operative is dead on the scene. The town is tight and runs the boys out, but they keep plugging.
Vacationing at a mountain retreat, they strike at an adverse communications officer, who strikes back with a frame.
Setup as a sellout, down and out in Acapulco. The adverse party has its front men not to be recognized from your own.
Protecting the retired agent and family against the deranged and vengeful gotten loose on the streets.
She has a bit of top secret propellant, the Communists have her brother.
Why, says the ex-general, don't they let us fight? He will have game, let it be us, or Robinson & Scott.
Faux Senator is arranged to assassinate a President.
Army Intelligence is receiving hits on its defector, who is leaving clues to his whereabouts, Robinson's old buddy, the other S2 debriefer?
The baby has now a microdot left by her father, and the assassins won't stop there.
What is this ring of spies set up in Africa? Melanie knows, or thinks she knows, or anyway means to find out, why not?
The phonybaloney defector is a real target when the game turns serious.
Six demolitions experts down, one to go, and his sister the only lead.
Scott's foster daughter in Rome is about to be married, and he's in a great deal of trouble.
A family court settles an old Italian grudge.
A literary masterpiece is out of the Soviet Union, will our boys kindly retrieve it?
Smuggler plans citywide blackout.
Las Vegas on vacation with a king as bodyguards, and an assassin's menace.
Desperate measures to kidnap a scientist: faux Scotty and Kelly!
In a tour of Venice, the old orthodontist gives Robinson a guide with a watch, a special watch, the kind that bugs spies.
A very delicate dilemma, an atom bomb lost in a plane crash near an Italian village.
Squiring a Leonardo to Florence.
Now, to replace the faux Leonardo in the museum with the real one in our hands.
A Grecian mail order bride may be a Trojan horse.
Lonely little tyke borrows a guidance system to attract his father's attention. The adverse party is interested.
Young agent is bait in trap set for KGB, but his father is not in on the setup.
Blackmail and murder at the U.S. Embassy.
A 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.
Little girl gifted with memory holds the Nazi past in her keeping.
The trouble with Temple is her boyfriend is evil.
Photojournalism brings in money, but the photojournalist is held captive.
Torture pure and simple has Robinson down in the dumps, with his career in jeopardy.
Don Quixote is the fascination of a professor with vital plans and an errant mind.
Yanks vs. Brits after Nazi art treasures in a convent garden.
Flashback on a murdered ballerina, Soviet style?
Difficult situation, lover tied to exiled strongman dealing in opposing missiles.
USO tour interrupted by adverse machinations toward angry comedian.
Mata Hari vs. file clerk.
Old home week with the adverse party next door.
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.
Time passes and things change. So have Scott and Robinson. Scott has become a college professor and Robinson holds a high enough position with the S.S.A.. Actually, their children are now the agents. It is their first mission and they must babysit some Russian scientists But the loving fathers that they are, they follow them to make sure their babies don't get hurt. What happens next is a mix of action and comedy involving the CIA, the KGB, China, and old friends from the old world.
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Release | 1965-09-15 |
| Producer | 3F Productions |