• Air date: 11 Sep '67 26 episodes
      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...
  • List of Episodes (26)
    • 1. Let's Kill Karlovassi

      11 Sep '67
      Assassinating a double agent on the beach in the Aegean just doesn't sound like fun.
    • 2. The Beautiful Children

      18 Sep '67
      Deep cover agent is blown, won't leave sideline.
    • 3. Laya

      25 Sep '67
      A very small person on the Embassy staff becomes a very large factor in espionage plans.
    • 4. The Medarra Block

      02 Oct '67
      A mysterious stone cube holds the key to rebellion against the Moroccan government.
    • 5. Philotimo

      09 Oct '67
      The best you can say about a child prodigy who takes you for a ride is maybe he's defective, after all.
    • 6. The Honorable Assassins

      16 Oct '67
      To Marrakesh with an old man's cash and his daughter and some bandits after the old man.
    • 7. Now You See Her, Now You Don't

      23 Oct '67
      Betrayal and deduction on the trail of an absconded mathematician last seen on the isle of Mykonos.
    • 8. Red Sash of Courage

      30 Oct '67
      On the border between Greece and Yugoslavia, airplane trouble besets USAF flights. Worse than that, who has been sleeping with the mayor's daughter?
    • 9. The Seventh Captain

      13 Nov '67
      Anti-submarine warfare and mysterious assassinations.
    • 10. Apollo

      20 Nov '67
      Undercover counterspying at NASA with an ex-wife as beard, who disappears.
    • 11. Oedipus at Colonus

      27 Nov '67
      A holy leader of men dies apparently on the eve of religious fighting in Morocco.
    • 12. The Lotos Eater

      11 Dec '67
      Robinson takes a powder and calls it quits in the Greek archipelago.
    • 13. An American Empress

      25 Dec '67
      San Francisco, the Empress of China, fireworks, the Reds.
    • 14. Home to Judgement

      08 Jan '68
      Pursued all the way down on the farm, Robinson & Scott fend off attackers.
    • 15. Anyplace I Hang Myself Is Home

      15 Jan '68
      Bouts of depression hit Scott too hard for anything but counseling. He and Robinson independently remember training school.
    • 16. Tag, You're It

      22 Jan '68
      Hare & hounds in San Francisco with the cadets, a charming tourist and a ringer.
    • 17. A Few Miles West of Nowhere

      29 Jan '68
      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.
    • 18. This Guy Smith

      05 Feb '68
      Vacationing at a mountain retreat, they strike at an adverse communications officer, who strikes back with a frame.
    • 19. Turnabout for Traitors

      19 Feb '68
      Setup as a sellout, down and out in Acapulco. The adverse party has its front men not to be recognized from your own.
    • 20. Happy Birthday... Everybody

      26 Feb '68
      Protecting the retired agent and family against the deranged and vengeful gotten loose on the streets.
    • 21. Shana

      04 Mar '68
      She has a bit of top secret propellant, the Communists have her brother.
    • 22. The Name of the Game

      11 Mar '68
      Why, says the ex-general, don't they let us fight? He will have game, let it be us, or Robinson & Scott.
    • 23. Suitable for Framing

      25 Mar '68
      Faux Senator is arranged to assassinate a President.
    • 24. The Spy Business

      01 Apr '68
      Army Intelligence is receiving hits on its defector, who is leaving clues to his whereabouts, Robinson's old buddy, the other S2 debriefer?
    • 25. Carmelita Is One of Us

      08 Apr '68
      The baby has now a microdot left by her father, and the assassins won't stop there.