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One of the most popular and award-winning television series of the sixties, I Spy was the first weekly broadcast to star both a white and a black actor. In 1964, though, producer Sheldon Leonard had, with heavy risk, financed the show himself, and his idea for a racially incorporated cast had earned his show the moniker "Sheldon's Folley." Pairing established white actor Robert Culp with Bill Cosby, a black comedian with barely an acting credit to his name, certainly turned some heads at NBC, and many wondered whether affiliates in the South would ever air the show. Only two years later, Cosby accepted the Emmy for leading actor--and I Spy cemented its role in history.
This is a complete history of I Spy and the profound change it evoked in broadcasting, social ideals and racial equality. Rich with interviews and photographs, it discusses I Spy's unique approach to race, co-starring interracial actors as equals. It also describes how the show became the template for popular "buddy genre" shows and films that followed, covers the show's significance as the first series to shoot episodes around the world, and puts I Spy in context with other works within the spy genre at a time when spy books, shows and films exploded in popularity. A complete episode guide includes writers, directors, cast, crew, plot synopsis and commentary.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Robert Culp
Prologue
1. The History of a Genre
2. The Road to Hong Kong
3. The First Block of Episodes
4. On to Japan
5. The Second Block of Episodes
6. South of the Border
7. The Third Block of Episodes
8. Wrapping Season One
9. Basking in the Sun
10. The Fourth Block of Episodes
11. Growth, Genre, Gratitude, and Gondolas
12. The Fifth Block of Episodes
13. Exposure
14. The Sixth Block of Episodes
15. Wrapping Season Two
16. Tie-Ins
17. Morocco to Greece
18. The Seventh Block of Episodes
19. A Change in Plans
20. The Eighth Block of Episodes
21. The Grind Continues
22. The Ninth Block of Episodes
23. Wrapping Season Three
24. The Fourth Season
25. I Spy Stripped
26. The First Reunion
27. The Second Reunion
28. The Third Reunion
29. The Fourth Reunion
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
