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 I Spy - Season 2, 2008-12-01
Kind of wish wash secret agent stuff...to much comedy. The DVD case is very poor, it breaks the DVD around the mounting holes unless a person takes it out very very carefully.
 Nostalgic Television at its finest, 2008-10-14
Bill Cosby and Robert Culp are truly amazing in this series. You can see the friendship onscreen in each episode. Set in the middle of the cold war this series may seem terribly old-fashioned to today's youth and those that watch the CSI-type shows, but the series has an enduring appeal with its focus on loyalty, honor and professionalism. I watched Mission Impossible with my parents, but I don't recall ever seeing this series when it ran originally. The shots of the Vegas strip and the skyline of Hong Kong show how old the footage is, but for me that just adds to the experience of watching classic, fascinating television.
RETRO CONTINUO, 2008-06-25
As with Season 1, I SPY-SEASON 2 has wonderful settings, music, dialogue, and photography, that bring back the age of the "COLD WAR,' along with other psycho-social struggles of that era known as "THE 60s." Get it. Watch it. Enjoy it.
TONY HOROWITZ
All That Is I SPY!!, 2008-06-10
GREAT NEWS ... I SPY is back again on DVD!! If you didn't pick-up the original set or have always wanted to see this great show from the 60s - now's your chance - and at a great price! I SPY was definitely the coolest and most realistic of the "spy genre" shows on 60s TV. The banter between Culp and Cosby is unsurpassed; the mixture of action/adventure/intrigue and comedy/romance/exotic locations is a joy to watch; plus the amazing music of Earle Hagen, add up to a viewing experience you won't want to miss.
For more on I SPY, be sure to check on THE "definitive" book on the series - "I Spy: A History and Episode Guide to the Groundbreaking Television Series" by Marc Cushman and Linda J. LaRosa (with a foreword by Robert Culp)
http://www.amazon.com/Spy-History-Episode-Groundbreaking-Television/dp/0786427507/
... Besides providing a complete and in-depth background and "the Story Behind the Stories," it also includes the real order in which to watch the episodes, not just the way they were broadcast. Everyone connected with I SPY who could be interviewed - was - including writers and production staff, and even censors' reports are included. A really great book for anyone interested in I SPY who wants to know the complete story. [...]
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 Fun Series, 2008-03-09
The 82 hour-long episodes (all in color) of the spy adventure series "I Spy" ran from 1965-1968 on NBC. All 28 episodes from season two are on this DVD, there was no significant changes to the style or background from season one. The same can be said for the 26 episodes of Season Three-probably a miscalculation as things had gotten a bit repetitive by that time and the series could have benefited from a bit of a shake-up.
It was a top-notch spy series with a fair amount of same "tongue-in-cheek" self-parody found in "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." and the popular James Bond movie franchise. But don't expect the same level of gadgetry and gimmicks; "I Spy" is much more about the witty banter between its pair of spies, Kelly Robertson (Robert Culp) and Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby). Their cover as they travel the world on assorted missions is tennis, Kelly is a tennis pro and Scotty is his trainer. They work for an unnamed U.S. espionage agency.
The intelligent and witty tone of the show obviously appealed to its fans as reflected by its three year broadcast run and subsequent syndication. Much of the credit for this goes to Sheldon Leonard who incorporated the more subtle comedy elements he had experimented with when producing "Make Room for Daddy", "The Andy Griffith Show", and "The Dick Van Dyke Show".
Cosby was hardly an unknown at the time of the series premiere. He was a wildly popular stand-up comic who had appeared many times on television variety shows and sold millions of record albums featuring his semi-autobiographical comedy routines. But his Alexander Scott character is generally a pretty serious guy (he does occasionally sneak in some of his comedy routines) and Cosby's portrayal is quite believable. Prior to this no comedian (and certainly no black comedian) had stared in an action show.
Culp is not so much the dashing James Bond style hero as a contemporary version of the less macho Bret Maverick type. He is not above pleading ignorance or confusion in a crisis. Fortunately the chemistry was excellent between the two stars.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
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