• Air date: 14 Sep '66 28 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 (28)
    • 1. So Coldly Sweet

      14 Sep '66
      The phonybaloney defector is a real target when the game turns serious.
    • 2. Lori

      21 Sep '66
      Six demolitions experts down, one to go, and his sister the only lead.
    • 3. Sophia

      28 Sep '66
      Scott's foster daughter in Rome is about to be married, and he's in a great deal of trouble.
    • 4. Vendetta

      05 Oct '66
      A family court settles an old Italian grudge.
    • 5. A Gift from Alexander

      12 Oct '66
      A literary masterpiece is out of the Soviet Union, will our boys kindly retrieve it?
    • 6. Trial by Treehouse

      19 Oct '66
      Smuggler plans citywide blackout.
    • 7. Sparrowhawk

      26 Oct '66
      Las Vegas on vacation with a king as bodyguards, and an assassin's menace.
    • 8. Will the Real Good Guys Please Stand Up?

      22 Nov '66
      Desperate measures to kidnap a scientist: faux Scotty and Kelly!
    • 9. Bridge of Spies

      09 Nov '66
      In a tour of Venice, the old orthodontist gives Robinson a guide with a watch, a special watch, the kind that bugs spies.
    • 10. One of Our Bombs Is Missing

      16 Nov '66
      A very delicate dilemma, an atom bomb lost in a plane crash near an Italian village.
    • 11. To Florence, with Love (1)

      23 Nov '66
      Squiring a Leonardo to Florence.
    • 12. To Florence, with Love (2)

      30 Nov '66
      Now, to replace the faux Leonardo in the museum with the real one in our hands.
    • 13. Lisa

      07 Dec '66
      A Grecian mail order bride may be a Trojan horse.
    • 14. Little Boy Lost

      14 Dec '66
      Lonely little tyke borrows a guidance system to attract his father's attention. The adverse party is interested.
    • 15. Father Abraham

      21 Dec '66
      Young agent is bait in trap set for KGB, but his father is not in on the setup.
    • 16. Rome ... Take Away Three

      28 Dec '66
      Blackmail and murder at the U.S. Embassy.
    • 17. Tonia

      04 Jan '67
      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.
    • 18. Child Out of Time

      11 Jan '67
      Little girl gifted with memory holds the Nazi past in her keeping.
    • 19. The Trouble with Temple

      25 Jan '67
      The trouble with Temple is her boyfriend is evil.
    • 20. The War Lord

      01 Feb '67
      Photojournalism brings in money, but the photojournalist is held captive.
    • 21. A Room with a Rack

      08 Feb '67
      Torture pure and simple has Robinson down in the dumps, with his career in jeopardy.
    • 22. Mainly on the Plains

      22 Feb '67
      Don Quixote is the fascination of a professor with vital plans and an errant mind.
    • 23. Get Thee to a Nunnery

      01 Mar '67
      Yanks vs. Brits after Nazi art treasures in a convent garden.
    • 24. Blackout

      08 Mar '67
      Flashback on a murdered ballerina, Soviet style?
    • 25. Magic Mirror

      15 Mar '67
      Difficult situation, lover tied to exiled strongman dealing in opposing missiles.