"I Spy" TV Show
1965-1968

Key Cast:
Alexander Scott - Bill Cosby
Kelly Robinson - Robert Culp

Bill Cosby and Robert Culp starred as international undercover agents in "I Spy."

Bill Cosby won three Emmy Awards for his outstanding performance in this landmark TV show.

No racial stereotyping whatsoever. Instead, you have a cool, intelligent and successful Black undercover
agent named Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby). He travels the world under the guise of being a tennis trainer and
traveling companion for Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp). Together, they work secretly for the Pentagon on
special missions around the world.

"I Spy" was the first network drama with an African-American star and it shattered the prevailing racial
stereotypes of Black men on TV. Never before had audience seen a Black man on television operate so
smoothly around the world. Never before had audiences seen an African-American do his job with respect
and no racism. Never before had a working relationship between a Black and White man been depicted so
casually with no hints of racial tension. "I Spy" was groundbreaking!

In addition to starring Bill Cosby, "I Spy" also had guest appearances from many famous African-American
stars of the day such as Cicely Tyson, Eartha Kitt, Godfrey Cambridge and Nancy Wilson.

"I Spy" aired on TV from 1965-1968 and won a 1967 Golden Globe Award for Best TV show.

• Bill Cosby's role as Alexander Scott was the first time that a Black actor was given a starring role on a
major network dramatic TV show. Although Cosby's role may be considered tame by today's standards, it
was a shocking and bold move in 1965.

• "I Spy" was filmed in other countries in order to avoid the racial tensions that were common in the United States.
Thus, the TV show was filmed on loaction in many international locales like Hong Kong, Mexico City, Morocco,
Greece and Italy.

• "I Spy" was Bill Cosby's first weekly starring role in a TV series. Cosby would go on to make other landmark
Black TV shows like "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" and "The Cosby Show."

• Eartha Kitt was nominated for an Emmy Award for her appearance in the "I Spy" episode "The Loser" which
is available on the "I Spy" Season One DVD.

• "I Spy" was one of the few TV shows to also depict its African-American guest stars in non-sterotypical roles, too.
For example, Diana Sands (A Raisin in the Sun) guest starred on "I Spy" as an Israeli agronomist. Cicely Tyson
and Ivan Dixon (Nothing But a Man) also appeared on the show as African royalty. And Leslie Uggams (Backstairs
at the White House) played "Tonia" in an episode where she was an active part of a Communist conspiracy in Italy.

• From 1966 to 1968 Bill Cosby won the Best Actor Emmy Award for his role as Alexander Scott.

• In 1967 "I Spy" won The Golden Globes Award for Best Television Show.

"I Spy" - Season One DVD
5 DVDS with all 28 episodes from the first season.
Co-star Robert Culp wrote the very first episode for the show.
Also, this is the DVD that has the performance by Eartha Kitt
that she received a nomination for an Emmy Award.

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"I Spy" - Season Two DVD
5 DVDs with all 28 episodes from the second season.

"I Spy" - Season Three DVD
5 DVDs with all 26 episodes from the third season.

Buy "I Spy Returns" on DVD
Bill Cosby and Robert Culp return to their "I Spy" roles
in this special television movie that was made in 1994.

In this film, they are reunited in order to help their children
who have become spies for the same organization that they
worked for in the sixties. Kelly Robinson's son and Alexander
Scott's daughter are on their first mission and the father's can't
help themselves from wanting to look out for them on their
first mission.

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